BTS leader RM, short for Rap Monster, clocked his 30th birthday on Thursday. The rapper is currently serving in the South Korean military. RM, aka Kim Namjoon, began his military service on December 11 last year. His service will end in 2025.
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RM's love for art is known to all his fans. He visits art museums and galleries around the world. Time and again he has shared his experiences and photos from these visits on social media platforms.
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RM, speaking with Vogue Korea last year, opened up about his "powerful first encounter with art". The BTS member had said, "Since our memories tend to edit themselves, I can’t vouch for the accuracy of mine, but I believe I had a moment like that while viewing paintings by Monet, van Gogh and Seurat at the Art Institute of Chicago. I think it was toward the end of 2018. I was on tour at the time, but I decided to use some free time to visit a museum that day.
RM had also said, “When I saw those famous paintings that I’d only seen in art textbooks or on the Internet, and actually felt their matières and presence, I knew I’d made the right choice. I have no artistic talent, so I couldn’t help but marvel, with my jaw on the floor, at the incredible colours and techniques of those master artists. For some reason, I was quite shaken by A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.”
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RM had spoken about travelling since childhood. Speaking with the Chicago Tribune a few years ago, RM had said, "...my parents always took me to areas around rivers in Korea. We would go camping and sleep outside in small tents. That is a great memory for me. I also studied in New Zealand for four months when I was 12 years old. It was exactly 125 days. I remember that because I wrote about it in my diary. Travelling helped with my education. I got to experience so many things."
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Olivier Assayas’s political drama The Wizard of the Kremlin has Jude Law stepping into the shoes of Vladimir Putin. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
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AI artiste aitot2.0 has imagined what Bollywood x Hollywood crossover could look like if Hollywood hunks teamed up with Bollywood actresses for movies. And the result is quite exciting. Here, the artiste imagines Leonardo DiCaprio with Aishwarya Rai. We think they would have made for a lovely pair in a movie.
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Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra played Jai and Veeru respectively in Sholay. Jai and Veeru were named after Salim Khan's college friends, Veerandar Singh Bias and Jai Singh Rao Kalevar. Both have passed away.
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The release of Rajinikanth's film Coolie on 14 August coincided with the milestone of the Tamil superstar completing 50 years in cinema on 15 August.
