Fugly (or "F*UGLY", as it appears on the poster) is a 2014 Indian Hindi language comedy-drama social thriller film directed by Kabir Sadanand and produced by Ashvini Yardi and Alka Bhatia.[2][3] It was released on 13 June 2014. The film features Jimmy Sheirgill, Mohit Marwah, Vijender Singh, Arfi Lamba and Kiara Advani.[4]
Dev, Devi, Gaurav and Aditya are close friends. Gaurav is the son of the CM of Haryana, while the rest of his friends are commoners. Gaurav is uninterested in his family's politics and is the only educated person in his family. Gaurav is nice-hearted, but always high on adrenaline because of his influential father. He has a knack of getting into trouble with police because of this attitude, but the police tend to ignore his pranks.A local grocer, Nunu has an evil eye on Devi and one day gropes her in his shop. The four of them decide to teach him a lesson. At night, they decide to break into his shop and thrash him warning him not to see her again. Although outnumbered and in bad state Nunu challenges them to leave Devi behind for him. Dev is very angry and decides to teach him a lesson. They put him in their car's trunk and drive him to an isolated location. They are intercepted by Inspector R.S. Chautala who is patrolling the highway. Gaurav, as usual, tries to act smart and gets involved in a scuffle with Chautala. This enrages him and he suspects foul play. When he checks the car he discovers Nunu inside the trunk. Chautala kills Nunu in order to frame them in his murder case. In the morning after severe threat he puts up a demand of Rs. 6.1 million of ransom money, which they have to arrange in 24 hours. Gaurav is afraid to tell his father about the incident because he was actually involved in Nunu's kidnapping since this would cost his father his CM chair. Somehow everyone is able to arrange 2.4 million.
Chautala further blackmails them by recording them handing over the money to him, as evidence of attempting to bribe a policeman. He gives them 3 more days to arrange for the money with an additional Rs. 1 million as a penalty. The four of them are further forced to arrange a rave party with a drug dealer, which is again raided by Chautala. He forces them into drug dealing as well to extract more juice out of them.
The four of them decide that they had enough and want to expose him in a sting operation. They almost succeed in extracting a confession out of him on camera but are busted and Chautala also kidnaps Devi. Chautala outsmarts them on every step and the four slip deep into trouble with every step they try. Finally, they are arrested on false charges and meanwhile out on bail.
Dev in the end decides that he has to sacrifice his life to expose the truth. In the next scene, Dev is in the hospital and his narration is interrupted by Chautala. He clears up the ICU room of everyone to have a private moment with Dev. Dev tricks him by cutting off his own life support and getting into a scuffle with Chautala. As the medics and reporters rush into the room, they find Dev dead and it appears as if Chautala has killed him. This is telecast live on the news. Chautala attempts to blackmail Gaurav's father in an isolated region but is shot dead by his colleague.
Plans for Fugly were announced in 2013,[4][6] Filming for Fugly was initially intended to begin in September 2013, but was delayed until October of the same year.[7] Filming took place in Delhi and Mumbai,[7][8] and the key song was shot in March 2014.[9]
Subhash K. Jha gave it 4 stars, writing "Fugly is cinema of social awakening. It tackles issues such as gay prostitution, khaki-clad fascism and the excess of television journalism, perhaps cramming in too many social issues in order to make the subject relevant and resonant. And yet nowhere does the director seem to bite into more than he can chew."[10] Faheem Ruhani of India Today wrote "The four young actors do not leave much of a mark with their acting abilities in a script which is befuddled with hackneyed plot points and unimpressive dialogues. Jimmy Sheirgill is the only actor who manages to leave an impact with his dunk-on-power Haryanvi cop act. Fugly could have been a better film but in spite of its noble Rang De Basanti intentions it is nothing but frubbish."[11]
Torren Martyn (surfer) and Simon Jones (shaper) are coming by Proof Lab to show their new surf film The Ugly Duckling. Torren sailed through Indonesia with an experimental quiver from Simon on a mission to test exciting new dimensions of surf craft.
TheDarkroom.com uploaded my batch of enhanced scans today. I checked them out, and like 90% set of just my Ektachrome scans have this grid pattern all over the image. I have a set of Ultramax 400 and Ektar 100 enchanced scans from the same order that are totally fine. What in god's name happened to my Ektachrome?
They said it could happen because of underexposed photos OR something in the scanning process. The roll has images that are average and overexposed. None are so underexposed that they are completely washed out but the grid pattern still appears in the darker areas of the photos. I know it's slide film film with very little latitude and there's always a battle between exposing for highlights or shadows, but this is just ridiculous.
I have other shots of the same plant where the petals are completely white and overexposed yet the shadows still have the grid. I've also had enhanced scans done on other slide film's and haven't seen this.
I think you're right. They said it could be from underexposure or the scanning, but check out the other images I posted. I don't think that's underexposure unless the scanner thinks every dark area is underexposed.
One set is from scanning negative film; the other is from scanning transparency film, and I suspect they are not making the specific adjustments to the scanner for each different film type requiring a change in settings.
The grid-like pattern is almost certainly a moir effect of some sort. I'm still inclined to blame scanning through etched cover glass, but why this would have a regular pattern to cause moir, I can't fathom. Unless the glass is repeat printed with a coating, rather than randomly etched.
It would be a very unusual scanner that introduced moir patterning with a change from positive to negative film. The inversion and colour correction for negative film is always applied in software. There's no hardware change in the scanner, except for maybe a change in exposure.
This is the full image but the pattern is more pronounced. All I did was resize the OP's pic from 3089 x 2048 to 1000 x 663. This pattern reminds me of troubles I had when I was learning about scanning years ago. From memory, I got patterns when I set several different adjustments and filters like sharpening, grain reduction etc expecting the scanner and software to be able to cope, doing it all in one scan. Obviously it couldn't. Since then I've bought more expensive scanners and software and rarely anything goes wrong.
I have mentioned that Toledo trusted Dionte to dig out (run past your CB and go block a bigger defender) safeties, and they did. He does alright here, getting the safety farther inside. But he struggles to get a great angle in these tasks.
Here's an upfield block, and this gif matters because it shows the fight in the young man taking on a significantly bigger defender to help his QB. It also shows a punch thrown by Diontae that didn't draw a flag, but could have. His competitiveness is great, but it can get him in trouble.
Here's a good job stopping the safety, but notice him dropping his head to deliver the hit to the safety. Bad form here, you keep your eyes on the target and your head up. Notice the opponent too, file it away for later in the post.
As a blocker, Diontae Johnson is willing, he has fight in him, but he doesn't do it well. He's small, and he's going to struggle blocking bigger players. Outside of the Miami game he didn't run block CBs much at all this past year. The offense relied a lot on RPO's and Diontae was running routes on the vast majority of his team's runs. He did more in 2017, but it wasn't any better.
I talked about how ridiculous Logan Woodside and Diontae Johnson were by the end of 2017, when Diontae was almost unguardable. We see a very different experience in 2018. This past season started with Mitchell Guadagni at QB, leading the Rockets in their first three games, VMI (starters would leave this game so both QBs would play) Miami and Nevada before leaving the Fresno State game and missing the BGSU game. Eli Peters would replace him. They'd go back to Guadagni for the Eastern Michigan game, but he'd leave again against Buffalo and Peters was back in. Guadagni would start against Western Michigan, and again leave the game, this time ending his season.
The first 8 games of the season Toledo bounced back and forth between their two QBs, and the team's passing stats, and Diontae's receiving stats show the struggles it lead to. His did well the first three games, he then had three bad games before a long TD against Buffalo seemed to show he was getting on track with Peters. Ball State was Peters first real planned start, and Diontae recorded 100 yards that game, and his 5 catches that got him there were the first time he hit 5 catches since week 2 vs. Miami. He would catch 7 the next week against Northern Illinois.
This was not a TD. Diontae did not get a foot down in bounds. He had kept his space, but the QB places it away from the defender and Diontae can't get it in bounds. This could be a miss, but often it is a case of a QB not trusting the WR and leading the ball away from the defender for a "safer" throw. The back shoulder throws were deadly with Logan Woodside in 2017, but they weren't there in 2018.
Here again the timing is off, the throw comes late and the DB has recovered enough to knock the ball out. You can tell by how Diontae slows and gets wide after the turn that he was expecting it then, when he has to go after the ball he isn't in position to shield the catch point with his body.
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