Hey beermoneyindia
Looking for a fun and flexible way to earn some extra cash? TELUS International AI is offering exciting projects to improve AI and machine learning models, and they need your help!
About the Project:

• Tasks: You'll be working on audio tasks, either ensuring recording quality (Audio QA) or transcribing recordings (Transcription).
• Project Duration: 2-3 months
• Compensation: $4 USD per hour

Requirements:

• 18+ years old
• Advanced English level (B2) - strong reading, writing & communication skills needed
• Native fluency in regional language (reading & writing)
• Transcription experience (preferred)
• Reliable internet connection
• Laptop or PC with a recent OS (Windows 10 or higher preferred) - tablets & phones are not compatible
• Up-to-date headset/earphones

Note-To apply for a gig at TELUS, you'll need to create a resume with your personal details, qualifications, languages you speak, and relevant skills. You can even mention the devices you own. It's recommended to use Microsoft Edge browser (PC) when applying online.
Languages Available: Hindi , Odia, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengli, Marathi, Tamil , Telugu, Punjabi , Malayalam , URDU

Original language is English. Current dubs are Arabic, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
New dubs that will adding the audio track language on Mid-2024: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovak, Swedish
New dubs that will adding the audio track language on Late-2024: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Serbian, Slovene
New dubs that will adding the audio track language on Early-2025: Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Uzbek
New dubs that will adding the audio track language on Mid-2025: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Irish, Vietnamese, Welsh

Edit: Saw this later from web and it was awful to look at. Cleaned it up. Please read strike through as cheeky side comments.

Premise:

Share my experience getting started on Bookfusion as a mobile first reader on iOS. I am also a dev so I like to give feedback when I see a project with promise and I figured my use case is not so unique.

Background:

I stumbled upon this app after months of being super annoyed searching for a way to away allowed tablet +pen users to write in line on epub files. I know now that this is possible on some of the very new color eink readers and (maybe?) Marginote but nothing accessible on iOS that gives you the full "I wrote in this book" feeling. I don't actually write in my paper books because it crowds the pages. However I use text based annotations all the time and love that I can just hide them away as I continue reading. It seems like a waste to have all this hardware capable of writing on books, but not supporting the most popular book format for published media. My full ebook library is close to 350gbs, and I have read them on many generations and sizes of devices over the years. That's why I don't like to use pdfs, so I will not be converting them.
Alright, off my rant.

History with other ereader applications:

I've been reading from epub files since the original Barnes and Nobles Nook launched in 2009. Things have changed a lot since then (for better and worse). My biggest pet peeve with all these platforms is that they lock you into their version of a book store and never allow you to include your currently library- or if they do allow sideload, it is at a disadvantage. Each of their reading apps are somewhat lacking in functionality too, one way or another.

• Kindle app is organized like social media with feeds and other nonsense I find that extremely annoying clutter to get to my book. The navigation in looking for books has infinite breadcrumbs you can't reset without hitting back a bunch of times. It's ability to do the one thing, is made unpleasant by the other forced features of integrating with Amazon.
• Apple Books lets you side load, but won't organize books by the same author or series together with ones sideloaded. You can't custom categorize books in your library without them being tied in some way to the Apple Books store view of the book.
• I've always found Google Books reader (on the iOS app) to be very ugly, and they are often the recent missing titles that I'm looking for. Man, I miss buying a ebook and getting a file. I can only do that directly supporting authors on their websites these days.

I haven't mentioned my qualm with actually buying books on these platforms either. Needless to say, I have books scattered across all the major platforms, which is why I will never get a kobo, amazon or otherwise platform affiliated e-reader and why I'm super interested in software based app solutions. I stick with iPad/iOS because it's familiar (I've had iPhones since the 3GS, and iPods even before then) and I have access to a lot of other stuff there too, jack of all trades style. Not an apple fanboy, I just hate having to change up something that's working for me already.
I have yet to find an eReader app that does everything I want, though. Besides digitally hand-writing in ebooks (which I understand is a particular challenge due to the format), I always end up trading one important feature for another. If I want an intuitive and simple interface, I have to give up customization options. If I want good organization, I have to give up proper cross device sync. If I want cloud sync I have to pray to the rain gods and light some candles. I rarely read from web since my iPad is a full laptop replacement to me, so this will all be iOS and iPadOS app perspectives.

Baseline for Comparison to BookFusion:

I have and still have to use the usual Apple Books, Kindle, Google Books and Kobo apps since my purchases are locked there for now. My latest and current app of choice was Eboox. It's made by a quiet little dev team. It's a 2 page app basically. Library view or shelf view. Some customization settings, but it has page-level Google drive based sync. Same deal, you can upload epubs super easily. I like that it shows me my most recent book at the top, and I can even download converted-to-epub fic and other comic files to this app sometimes. The big cons are that it's not very well polished: updates are slow, the shelving system is infuriating because there is no user created order enforced and since you can't re-arrange books on a shelf, tag, or otherwise subshelve books to group them you're stuck with alphabetical and recency order. On my "Worth Reading Again" shelf I'd like to have all the books from the same series sequentially. Or better yet, let me rearrange them. Annotating on this app is buggy, sometimes the note you typed won't be saved and will be open in the next note you make. The reading view navigation is glitchy and crowded. I have stuck with it because it does the thing(tm) with no forced frills and it is simple and nice to look at.
When Bookfusion came up on reddit in my search for supporting hand-written annotation it was like candy on Christmas. Plus, page level audio integration (something I never dreamed of having on mobile outside of platform lock) coming soon? Amazing. Now, I'm excited.

Initial Reaction/Onboarding:

I downloaded the app and made a quick account (not too many forced profile details too, great!), It was super easy to get started. Importing books is also quick and painless although that 10 books free limit is really nothing for someone like me *more on that later in criticisms.

What I Loved:

1. I was immediately in love with the amount of customization available for the reading view. Full color spectrum background support is awesome! I'll take an all black dark mode theme but for me, cream text and midnight blue background reign supreme for me. I don't normally mess around with the font options much but there were a lot to choose from! Big points.
2. Ability to tweak the epub files summary and meta data right in app is nuts, and incredible. Absolutely my favorite surprise perk so far, I've never had that available in a mobile app.
3. The sidebar is easy to use. I didn't love there being a store in my reading app (see my complaints about platform tying) but it is unobtrusive and I appreciate that.
4. Navigating my collection is straightforward and awesome. I prefer the info view over the gallery view since have a lot of files with no cover. Currently reading book at the top in the main screen is a feature I grew to love so I'm grateful to see it here!
5. I just about cried when I saw the color coded (And searchable!!!) tag integration. I've never had an iOS app do that. Especially on files with a large number of tags, like epubs exported from AO3. It's usually something I categorize on my own via shelves. Pretty damn awesome!
6. The text search is actually useful, God is real. I cannot explain how heinous text search has been on pretty much every where else. Being able to search/ see highlights across books is also legendary. A common note-taking feature but a very uncommon reading app feature (especially working well!)
7. Annotating the typed way (from my iPhone) is awesome. the context menu isn't too crowded, the highlighting is easy (another fully custom color palette, I'm screaming).
8. Speaking of the note view! I love that you can edit right from there without the book navigating to that page, AND you can jump there by tapping the note. Link navigation in general works well.

Nice-to-Haves that came up during use:

1. It would be nice to have the option to toggle off the book preview screen that shows after selecting a book you aren't currently reading. Most of the time, I already know what I'm reading when I open it. I'd prefer to be able view summaries or get this view via a long press on the book or from a context menu
2. I noticed that the order of tags isn't preserved, and instead tags appear alphabetically. Not a big deal, but it would be a nice to be able to preserve the order that they were imported with, and that you could priority order them. It would also help in the info view, since those top tags would be priority order too rather than whatever was closest to A.
3. I noticed that if I tap on a highlighted area I've already annotated it doesn't do anything? I would love to get an inline view of my note or at least a preview of it when I tap on the highlighted portion without going back to the edit menu to do so. Since, you can view all your notes across the book from the right sidebar menu, I can live without it but it would be a very nice to have.
4. Additionally, I don't always want to highlight AND note. It would be cool if you could have notes indicated with a accent colored underline when the passage is not highlighted. Typically, I highlight when I find the text meaningful and note when I have something to say about the content. For instance, I might highlight a stanza of poetry but not have anything to add. Or I might add a not to a passage that does not make sense to me- in that case, I'm not appreciating the writing but I do have something to say about it. Maybe this could be done by being able to preset a with a separate highlight color as default for when specifically selecting to add a note. In my view, notes that I wouldn't want literal highlighting on could be defaulted to a very gray/muted color, and then highlights remain as they are now.

Conclusion: So far I'm pretty impressed, and I know there's even more to explore with Callibre integration stuff too. Right now my central ebook library is hosted on a NAS that needs to be upgraded so it won't take me 20 minutes to download an audio book lol. I'd be interested in hosting my library on a cloud too. I also haven't tested it on ipadOS fully yet beyond the sync capabilities, but I'm already pleased with what I have seen so far in iOS
That does bring me back to the pricing though.

Criticisms

Some minor nitpicks: When I get a reading app, I'm looking for it to be completely usable offline. I think most people would agree? Why would I need to make an account before I even import a book? It feels like a lot of investment before I have even seen the app enough to decide if I will use it? It is understandable for early access but it did somewhat rub me the wrong way.
The Store. I don't love it. I wish it was out of view or something I had to open specifically rather than be in my main navigation bar. I get it, but it harkens back to platform lock.
The future social media-like features: Please, PLEASE make these optional or hideable. I hate this social-media-fication of everything these days. I don't want to be on yet another social media platform, I try to be on as little as possible of the already existing ones that you can barely escape these days. Goodreads and Storygraph already exist and I hardly want to use those. Storygraph is sticking to Goodread's original purpose which was to track your reading easily, and is the whole reason I use it. When Goodreads turned into Amazon's rendition of Bookface, I left the platform. Now it's cluttered with social media features I never wanted in the first palce. Goodreads became hard to use for it's original purpose. You have to constantly navigate away from a feed made up of people and authors I don't care about (because even if you didn't have people to put posts in your feed, they'd make you one based on recommendations and your reading lists....yay). Then the reviews were being censored, Amazon was making it difficult to remove books that were added to the platform without permission and get indie authors that actually wanted to be on there up. Sorry, I'm off track. As you can see I have a bitter attitude toward forced social media features. If the app becomes more complex to use for it's main purpose (re: Do The Thing TM) due to the social features it would ruin the whole thing for me.
The free tier: 10 books + 2 adds/deletes per day is way too low to get integrated into a new platform. I'm sure I would not have had time to consider whether I want to continue with my whole collection in Bookfusion before I reached frustration with the cap. I have at least 50 books in every eReader app I have right now, bar kindle since you can only download 10(?) at a time... but I can download and trade them as often and whenever I want- and I don't even properly OWN those titles half the time. And all of those are free and direct competition to Bookfusion.
In the free tier (without specifically enabling it), I should not be using up any cloud storage. It feels arbitrary to have this limit on the number books I can view in the app when I'm not using any services to do so. My device, that I own, with it's internal storage already holding my books that I also already own. Why am basically forced to be on a subscription to use the app realistically when the app is supposedly free? I would have rather (and happily) paid 4.99 out right to have no local storage limits, and the basic offline do the thing(tm) features. This app is better than any other e-reader I've found on the market so far so it should have a strategic advantage but it feels like I won't even get to experience that before I have to pay- under the guise that the app is free.
It's giving free trial instead of freemium and that doesn't line up with what is shown on the app store page. As it stands, I would not consider this a free app, as you can't use the basic feature set realistically without the subscription. If I only owned 10 books or would be okay to only view 10 books on rotation, I probably wouldn't be looking for something with such a robust feature set so I also feels this contradicts the goals of the market you're trying to capture. I understand pushing conversion, but this actually just scares away people who might have gotten themselves fully integrated into the platform and eventually more willingly paid for extra things one might expect, like expanded cloud storage, real time cross device sync, access to new features etc etc.
this is a bit of a soap box speech but I'm explaining what I would like to see for a subscription model Discord is a great example of freemium. The basic features that make it competitive are completely free. These features are limited to user in a reasonable manner, so that if they don't care too much about streaming in 4k or being a power user with 100+ servers, they can comfortably use the app in the free tier. When I first got on discord, it was to use servers as big archivable and searchable group chat. Much smaller than what it was capable of at the time, but had the easiest onboarding and the lowest overhead to get started. All you need is an email address, a username and an invite. Today, I've been a nitro subscriber since 2018, which is 2 years after I got started on the platform. No one I knew besides my gaming friends were on discord. Slowly, as I convinced more people to join me on the platform (I'd respond faster since I could use the web app at work), more and more of my total communication was happening on discord. Now, I happily pay monthly to have 50 more emojis to take between servers, customize my profile and push my server cap up. I also get to support the devs making a tool I use all the time and get early access to new features. I was already invested in the platform and that guaranteed I would want to continue with Discord enough to want and enjoy these extra features instead of hopping to a competitor like Telegram to start all over.
Because of the 10 book cap, there's no real incentive for me to invest time into importing all my books, making the shelves and tags I want to use, customizing the reading ui and making sure it synced over to my ipad. A casual user could have this experience: Upload 10 books immediately, be blocked from uploading more without deleting and be stuck. "What? Well that sucks, I really liked it so far." and immediately leave for other, worse apps that at least let me import my whole library. I hope this is coming off as constructive because I'm not trying to gripe about price. As I mentioned earlier, I have no problem paying for something I know I'm going to use. It just doesn't make sense for me (and when I say me, I mean the general consumer) to get on a subscription for the basic offline features of an app that I likely just got and am not sure I'll keep by that time. Only, if I don't subscribe the app at base is not very useful.
The Other Tiers: The two highest tiers are the only ones that would be useful to me, so I'm sharing my perspective on those. $10 a month isn't a lot but in the monthly sub competition space it's on the steep side. KU is $15? and I get Amazon's backlog included. This app is fundamentally and demonstrably better than any of the platform based apps, but it's not promising much recurring value in comparison to other subscription style plans. Maybe something like getting the first month for free would help? But mainly, changing between these apps requires decent front load effort on the user (to export their files from somewhere else, onto your platform) and then on top of that, you have to subscribe to read more than 10 of your own books? For me, I see it as dev support so I'm willing but others might not even try it with a limit that low.
To me, I would want to see features like the following to make $10 a month worth the value add:

• Integration with book tracking platforms like Storygraph (I hate goodreads but right now SoryGraph doesn't have the apis for it yet) and GoodReads
• Fancy Export tools for my annotations (to Excel, Google, OneNote Etc)
• Ability to view/export my reading stats by time (last month, last week etc)
• Hide social media/store/ad from sidebar and context menus. and be able to customize it with shortcuts to my most used shelves or something.
• Receive notifications about my favorite author's new books (rss feed or something)
• Strict interest/genre profiles for recommendations (for example: I'm only reading women authors writing historical fantasy this month, only show me those recs. Only recommended me Java17 manuals. Do not recommend horror novels).
• Complete data transparency. Where is my Bookfusion account data going?

But overall, I think this level of restriction will hinder the app more than it helps conversion. Please consider removing the book # (not the feature limits, only the local library size stuff) restrictions and either making the app cost money for those basic offline features or having those certain features be fully free so that the app is functional @ the free tier (and therefore, properly freemium).
I want to clarify in a quick closing note that I'm sharing this to give my perspective. This is not an official feature request or complaint or anything. I thought my onboarding experience and background with ebooks might make for an interesting take by new user but veteran e-reader.
I'd love to hear how other users feel (especially new ones) about Bookfusion and for you veterans, what keeps you using it?
Thanks!

I finetuned whisper large v3 on Telugu language audio with Romanized script labels. Occasionally, Instead of transcription, It is translating the Telugu input to English. Why is this happening?? How can I eliminate this? I dont have any english transcriptions at all in my dataset

EDIT: Messed up the title, I'm looking for the audio only, I have the PDFs, see below.
The Central Institute for Indian Languages has a bunch of courses for learning Indian languages, which is nice because Indian languages tend to have far fewer learning materials than one might expect from the number of speakers they have. Unfortunately these materials are quite hard to come by especially outside India. The main introductory course series they have are titled "An intensive course in...", which consists of a book and audio materials. In this series, for the Dravidian languages, I have found the book and audio for Kannada (PDF, audio) and Tamil (PDF, audio 1, audio 2), but only the books for Malayalam and Telugu. Also, Exotic India is apparently carrying many of the titles, though for most of them only the books, and for the titles which purportedly come with audio on CD, I have heard they are not super reliable and have been known to come in less-than-ideal condition (sometimes being straight up unreadable).
I am wondering if anyone has access to the audio for the Telugu or Malayalam courses, and if so, could you share? I'm fairly certain all the materials are CC licensed now (i.e. this is perfectly legal); I'm pretty sure the only reason the audio isn't just available online like the books is because the CIIL operates in the stone age (take a look at their various websites, half of them don't work and the other half are from 1998).
There's also intermediate/advanced reader series that're supposed to be a "sequel" to the "An intensive course in..." series; mostly they consist of graded readers, which personally I find are invaluable for language learning. AFAIK there was never any audio to go with these, but I might be wrong—in particular the Malayalam Intermediate course, I suspect there might be audio, because the format is not like the other courses in the series. If people have it, please share. Anyways, leaving those here in case they are of benefit to people: Kannada, Malayalam intermediate, Malayalam advanced; the rest are on Bharatvani here, search for "course reader", but you'll need to make an account and I think you need an Indian mobile phone number for that.
I should also mention there is a भारतीय भाषा ज्योति (Bharati Bhasha Jyoti) course series, also from the CIIL, which unlike the aforementioned English courses, are in Hindi, but for learning other Indian languages. These are also on Bharatvani, see above.
Lastly (I know this is technically out of scope for this subreddit), I would also be greatly appreciative if anyone had the audio for some of the Indo-Aryan courses; the Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Assamese, Kashmiri, books are available online, but have not been able to find any audio.

Hi everyone. I’m a day late and a dollar short with this week’s list due to taking off for the eclipse and then playing catch-up at work all week. I tried out a table format, but I went through all of the trouble of creating it in Word and it turns out tables from Word don't copy into Reddit whatsoever. Next week I'll try building the post entirely from scratch within Reddit and see if I can get some better formatting out of it. :)
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Early Access
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April 13, ~7:00 PM
Santikos, Drafthouse, AMC
Civil War (2024, Open Captions)
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April 12, 14, 17
Santikos
The Absence of Eden (2024)
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Opens April 12
Santikos Embassy
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold (2024)
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April 12 – 18
Regal Cielo Vista
Irena’s Vow (2023)
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April 15, 16
Santikos, Regal
Mandy (2018)
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April 12, 13
Drafthouse
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
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April 12 – 15
Flix Brewhouse
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
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April 14
Flix Brewhouse
Spider-Man (2002)
Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe
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April 15, 16
Santikos, Drafthouse, Regal
Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1998)
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Playing Forever
AMC Rivercenter IMAX
Selena (1997)
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April 12, 13, 17
Drafthouse, Flix Brewhouse,
Tobin Center Free Event (April 12 7:00 PM)
Clerks (1994)
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April 13, 14, 17
Drafthouse
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994, Gore Cut)
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April 15
Drafthouse Park North
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
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April 14
Drafthouse
Labyrinth (1986)
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April 13, 14, 16
Drafthouse
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
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April 12 – 17
Drafthouse Park North
Le Samouraï (1967)
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April 15, 7:00 PM
Slab Cinema @ Arthouse at Blue Star
MOVIE/THEATER ADJACENT
UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill
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April 13, 9:00 PM
Santikos, Regal
Rock Musicals: Hair to Hamilton
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April 15, 7:00 PM
Tobin Center
KIDS
Elemental (2023, Free)
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April 12, 6:30 PM
Slab Cinema @ Bulverde Community Park
The Little Mermaid (Version unknown, Free)
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April 13, 7:40 PM
Slab Cinema @ Tower of the Americas
Paw Patrol: The Movie (2021)
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April 13, 20
Regal
Shrek 2 (2004)
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April 11 – 17
Santikos, Regal, Flix Brewhouse, AMC
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Capitan Avispa (Spanish)
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April 12 – 17
Regal Cielo Vista
Fasel Men El Lahazat El Lazeeza (Arabic)
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April 12 – 18
Regal Cielo Vista
Yolo (2024, Original Chinese Audio)
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Opens April 12
Santikos
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (Hindi)
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April 11 – 18
Regal
Maidaan (Hindi)
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April 11 – 18
Regal
Tillu Square (Telugu)
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April 11
Regal
Crew (Hindi)
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April 11
Regal Northwoods
SUGA: Agust D TOUR
‘D-DAY’ THE MOVIE
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April 11 – 18
Santikos (April 13 only), Regal, AMC

I think the speech took the place at the audio launch Prabhas movie. I did not understand the other comment is that " HR enduku pani cheyyadu " what does it mean?
In a video he had said, “ When Dhoom 2 was released two years ago, I wondered why only Bollywood could make such quality films. Don't we have heroes like Hrithik Roshan? I thought I just saw the songs, poster and trailer of the film ‘Billa’. I will say only one thing. Hrithik Roshan is nothing in front of Prabhas. I thank Director Meher Ramesh for taking Telugu cinema to Hollywood level.”
HR neither criticized anyone nor made bad comments in film industry then why SS Rajamouli did this negative to HR?
https://reddit.com/link/1bzzkec/video/nh67qvnvzhtc1/player

Here are some of the most popular attractions at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India:

• Studio Tours - Get a behind-the-scenes look at working film studios on a guided tour. See how movies and TV shows are filmed.
• Outdoor Film Sets - Walk through replicas of real locations like European streets, small towns, palaces etc. used in film shoots.
• Wax Museum - Check out life-like wax statues of famous Tollywood (Telugu film industry) celebrities.
• 5D Cinema - Experience movies with special effects like motion seats, wind, water and scents in this interactive theater.
• Water World - Enjoy water rides, wave pools and artificial beaches at this aquatic amusement park.
• Adventure Arena - Try adventure activities like zorbing, zip lining, jungle camping etc. in this arena.
• Fashion Street - Browse colorful shops selling movie inspired clothing, accessories and costumes.
• Food Courts - Satisfy your taste buds with a variety of Indian, Chinese and continental cuisines.
• Heritage Village - Get a glimpse into rural Indian village lifestyle at this open-air museum.
• Audio Visual Museum - Learn about the technical and creative advances in Indian cinema over the years.

Ramoji Film City is a popular one-day tour attraction near Hyderabad known for its lifelike film sets and entertainment zones.

Bio:
Grade: Junior
State: Georgia
Background: Naturalized Citizen
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Freshman Year:
AP Human Geo: A
Bio Honors: B
Personal Fintness: A
Spanish 2: B
Spanish 3: A
Intro Digital Tech: B
Engineering 1: A
Lit/Comp Honors: A
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Sophomore Year:
10th Lit: B
Ap Psych: B
Ap World: B
Audio Video Tech: B
Chem: B
Engineering 2: A
Ap Stat: B
Precalc: C
APUSH: A
Computer Sci Principles: A
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Junior Year:
AP Gov US: A
AP Gov Comp: A
PE: A
Engineering 3: A
AP Euro: A
AP Lit: B
Audio Video Tech 2: A
APES: A
GSU Dual Econ: A
GSU Dual Calc: A
GSU Dual Intro to PoliSci: A
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Extracurriculers:
Summer Camp: Counseler
BSA: 7 years in BSA, Eagle Scout, Have been Chaplin, Quartermaster, & ASPL of Troop
Tutoring: Tutor in English & Social Studies for 3 Years
TSA: On my School's TSA E-Car Team
FBLA: Represented my chapter at regionals for Broadcast Journalism
Mock Trial: Team Courtroom Artist
Religious: Have been Volounteering Part-Time at my Local Temple for 2 years
Jobs: Worked at Chick-Fil-A for 2 Years (getting promoted soon) & Finance Intern at local catering service for 1 year
Community Service: 2x Presidential Service Medal recipient with over 400 service hours
Honor Societies: Rho-Kappa & NEHS
Vibha Club: Officer
Freelance Robotics: I build custom order drones and rockets sold about 80 so far
Freelance Video: I make videos and do editing and have done around 10 orders so far
ISA: Founder of my school's Indain Student Association
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PSAT & ACT Scores:
34 ACT
1420 PSAT
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Sports:
Weightlifting: 1 Year
Tennis: 2 years
Squash: 2 years
Taekwondo Black Belt: 4 years
Boxing: 1 Year
Varsity Basketball Coach Assistant: 1 Year
Founder of my school's Taekwondo & Boxing Clubs: 1 Year
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GPA & Ranking
GPA: 3.58 Wighted Expected to go up to 3.8 - 3.9 after this Year
Ranking: 420 of 608 / 30th percentile
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Misc:
Triligual: Fluent English & Telugu, Moderate Spanish
Attended CVW and going to Summer Seminar
Rec Letters from: AP Lang, Euro, and Engineering Teachers (since I dont have a in person math class junior or senior year im asking my engineering teacher), My BSA Scoutmaster, Basketball Coach, and my bosses from both jobs.
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My acedemics are definetly my weakest area since I messed up really bad in my 2nd year but my grades have been on going up and im expecting to end this year with all A's exept AP Lang.
My School is super competative so even with all of the A's in ap classes im taking this year and next year I probably wont be able to make it into the top 20% of my class since that requires a minimum GPA of 4.2 weighted.
My Sports have mostly been solo exept for the Boxing & Taekwondo Clubs and Basketball Coach Assistant at school.
I feel like my extracurriculers are going to be the things that really make or break my application so I tried to include as many that I did as Possible.
Please give honest feedback and while I think Junior year is too late to change much I really appreciate any help. Thanks!