InstaMeet 6!

Place – Patang Bazaar at Dabgharwad, Bhagal.

Organizers – Instagram Surat @surat_igers 

Explorers – Instagrammers from Surat

Must Visit Instameets for – Exploring new places with other instagrammers, talk, laugh, click and share moments together. 

Hashtag Used – #IGSpatangbazar

Have you ever heard of Instameet? Yes guys, Instagram is more than an app, it’s actually a growing community of people passionate about photography who meet at certain place which has been pre-planned. It offers another opportunity to connect, whether it is to exchange some photography and gramming tips or to explore a great spot and capture in your camera. 

The most interesting part is discovering the faces behind the usernames whom you’ve been knowing through their feed, their pictures and captions. Instagram communities exist in Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Banglore and all around the world. And Surat isn’t staying back too. Instagram Surat (@surat_igers) is a group of Instagrammers in Surat who explore different locations in every Instameet, gradually getting to know each other beyond usernames.

You can also be part of it only by following them on Instagram @surat_igers and join in their Instameets. Instameets occur once or twice in a month and these are one of the mornings that act as refresher for the following days. It is more about enjoying the moments of life and sharing them on Instagram. There is always a unique hashtag for every instameet under which all the pictures are submitted. 

Dabgharwad is a good place for street photography and during Uttarayan season this place is full of colors due to preparations of Maanja (Strings used to fly kites) and kites. 

If you want to be part of Instagram Community of Instagram Surat (@surat_igers), 

Follow the page on Instagram and Stay Tuned.

FSS screening of The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas.

By @MovieMadari

By the time the movie ended and people were getting up from their seats too slowly, I felt either they were sleepy or they were too stunned to move. Soon, I found out the answer. 

Film Society of Surat in association with Cinemaholics screened THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS yesterday at Valentine Multiplex and patrons experienced some moving cinema. The story that revolved around a boy named Bruno, the son of an officer in Hitler's Army showed a very different perspective on holocaust movies. A camp, though nameless in the movie but can be auschwitz or any other, is shown from the eyes of two eight-year olds, one within the camp and one outside of it. It involves rather subtly and often euphemistically depicted scenes of how a concentration camp is seen. And the climax is something that leaves you stunned for several minutes if not more. 

The audience or patrons as I like to call them slowly moved out of their seats, some just acknowledging the movie with a smile or a nod while some being more vocal. Wife of a well known celebrity and a regular with FSS was crying well past the exit gates. Another patron was telling how she won't be able to sleep tonight and one patron just walk past in a dazed manner, too disturbed to react. 

Yes, the movie created ripples. Some may have enjoyed it and some may have thought why should they see such a movie after a hard day's work. But my answer to it lies in my age old belief that good cinema is the one that stimulates our emotions. Whether it is laughter or love or joy or patriotism or even a little sadness, if you take something back home from the amazement called the silver screen, Cinema wins. So when our patrons left the theatre, they should not be afraid to take a little back home, even if its a knot in the stomach.