Embrace

Embrace may refer to:

Music

Embrace (non-profit)

Embrace is a non profit organization providing low-cost incubators to prevent neonatal deaths in rural areas in developing countries. The organization was developed in 2008 during the multidisciplinary Entrepreneurial Design For Extreme Affordability course at Stanford University by group members Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Rahul Panicker, Razmig Hovaghimian, and Naganand Murty.

Incubator

The Embrace infant warmer is a low-cost solution that maintains premature and low-birth-weight babies’ body temperature. The infant warmer is portable, safe, reusable, and requires only intermittent access to electricity. Each baby warmer is priced at approximately $25. The Embrace development team won the fellowship at the Echoing Green competition in 2008 for this concept. Embrace also won the 2007-2008 Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students Social E-Challenge competition grand prize. At a ceremony at BAFTA in London on December 3rd 2013 Jane Chen, Linus Liang, Naganand Murty and Rahul Panicker won an innovation award from the Economist. Embrace also partners with UniversalGiving to raise fund for its project, which is to provide the Embrace infant warmers in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Embrace (Boom Boom Satellites album)

Embrace is the eighth studio album by Japanese electronic/rock duo Boom Boom Satellites. Released on January 9, 2013, Embrace serves as the band's 15th anniversary release. Songs on the album include their single "Broken Mirror" and the song "Drifter", which was used in Sony's Xperia commercials. The album will also be sold in a deluxe edition that contains a DVD and a USB flash drive. JPU Records released the album in the UK, Europe and Russia on 2 September 2013. The CD version from JPU Records contained an exclusive remix of Snow.

To support the album, BBS are going on both a short pre-release party tour at Club Quattro locations in Shibuya, Tokyo; Umeda, Osaka; and Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture; and on a national tour following the album's release. The band will also livestream the final mastering of the album at New York City's Sterling Sound studio on Nico Nico Douga. The first promotional single from Embrace was a cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter", the duo's first ever cover song. This was followed by the release of another digital single of the track "Nine". In addition, album versions of previous promotional singles "Another Perfect Day" (released as a "Movie Edit") and "Drifter" (released as a "test run") are included on Embrace.

Masala (2013 film)

Masala (English: Mixture of Spices) is a 2013 Telugu comedy drama film produced by D.Suresh and Sravanthi Ravi Kishore jointly on Suresh Productions & Sravanthi Art Movies banner, directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Starring Venkatesh, Ram, Anjali, Shazahn Padamsee in lead roles and music composed by S. Thaman. It is a remake of the 2012 Hindi film Bol Bachchan The film released worldwide on November 14, 2013. Upon release, the film received positive reviews from critics albeit the lead actors and the comedians' performances were appreciated.

Plot

Balaram (Venkatesh) is a good hearted strongman of the village of Bheemarajapuram. He treats everyone with fairness and takes care of their needs. But there is one thing that Balaram cannot tolerate and that is lying. If he catches someone lying, Balaram metes out a severe punishment to the offender. Into this scenario comes in Rahman (Ram). Along with his sister Sania (Anjali), Rahman comes to the village in search of a job. With a brave deed, he falls into the good books of Balaram but circumstances force him to change his name to Ram. He soon becomes a trusted aide of Balaram and all is well for a while.

Masala (2012 film)

Masala (Marathi: मसाला) is a 2012 Marathi film directed by Sandesh Kulkarni and written by Girish Kulkarni. It is Kulkarni's directorial debut. The film is loosely based on the life story of Hukmichand Chordia of Pravin Masalewale fame.

Synopsis

A couple is forced to repeatedly move in search of sustainable business ventures. They live in constant fear of meeting their creditors, whose money they spent in unfruitful investments. When the couple meets another couple, things start changing for the better by following the wise counsel of their new acquaintances. The latter part of the movie showcases these changes.

Reception

The movie was well received by the audience and appreciated by critics.

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Masala film

Masala films of Indian cinema are those that mix genres in one work. Typically these films freely mix action, comedy, romance, and drama or melodrama. They tend to be musicals that include songs filmed in picturesque locations. The genre is named after the masala, a mixture of spices in Indian cuisine. According to The Hindu, masala is the most popular genre of Indian cinema.

History

The origin of this genre is generally credited to the filmmaker Manmohan Desai and screenwriter duo Salim-Javed who very successfully exploited the genre in the 1970s and 1980s. It helped establish many leading actors as superstars such as Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakrabarty, Rajnikanth, Chiranjeevi, Vishnuvardhan, Ambareesh. Actress Sridevi received stardom in her early Bollywood career with Masala movies. More recently, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Mahesh Babu, Pawan Kalyan, Allu Arjun, Ajith Kumar, Joseph Vijay, Darshan, Dev and Jeet have all tasted success in this format.

This style is used very often in Hindi and South Indian films as it helps make them appeal to a broad variety of viewers. Famous masala filmmakers include David Dhawan, Anees Bazmee, Prabhu Deva and Farah Khan in Hindi cinema; Raja Chanda,Raj Chakraborty,Rabi Kinagi in Bengali cinema;S.S. Rajamouli, Puri Jagannath and Srinu Vaitla in Telugu cinema; S. Shankar, Hari, AR Murugadoss and K. S. Ravikumar in Tamil cinema and in Kannada cinema it was V. Somashekhar and K. S. R. Das in 70's; K.V.Raju, A. T. Raghu and Joe Simon in the 80's; Om Prakash Rao and Shivamani in the 90's and Mahesh Babu, K.Madesha and A.Harsha in the 2000s . The "Curry Western" trend that began with Sholay (1975) also falls under the masala genre. Curry Western is a play on the term Spaghetti Western.