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Space Business Review: A monthly round-up of space industry developments for the information of our clients and friends – July 2022 – Lexology

Posted: August 4, 2022 at 2:35 pm

July M&A Activity

July 5 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. announced that it entered into an agreement to sell its majority ownership interest in smallsat manufacturer NanoAvionics Corp. (NanoAvionics) to Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg), the space and maritime surveillance business unit of Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen. The contemplated transaction values NanoAvionics at approximately $68m, with Kongsberg acquiring a 77% ownership interest in the company, while company management will retain a 23% stake. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2022, subject to regulatory approvals.

July 8 Safran Electronics & Defense SAS acquired Orolia SAS, a manufacturer of atomic clocks, from private equity investor Eurazeo SE for 189m with the aim of consolidating its leading position in the market for resilient positioning, navigation and timing systems.

July 18 The Raytheon Intelligence & Space business unit of Raytheon Technologies Corp. announced that it will acquire, under terms not yet disclosed, Northern Space and Security Ltd. (NORSS), a UK-based start-up focused on space domain awareness, orbital analysis, space surveillance and tracking.

July 25 Eutelsat Communications S.A. (Eutelsat) and OneWeb Communications Ltd. (OneWeb) announced a memorandum of understanding setting forth their agreement to merge their companies in an all-share transaction that values OneWeb at $3.4b. Eutelsat, which currently holds a 23% stake in OneWeb, will acquire the company from existing shareholders in exchange for newly issued shares in Eutelsat, although the UK government will retain a share in OneWeb with priority voting rights. The combined company will transform into a leading multi-orbit satellite operator providing integrated geostationary and low-Earth orbit satellite-based connectivity services through the joining of Eutelsat's geostationary orbit satellite fleet and OneWeb's low-Earth orbit broadband constellation.

Satellite Vu Procures Second Satellite from SSTL

On July 21, Global Satellite Vu Ltd. (Satellite Vu), a UK-based start-up with plans to deploy a seven-satellite thermal imaging constellation, announced that it selected Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to manufacture a second satellite for the company. Scheduled for launch in early 2024, the new satellite will be a clone of Satellite Vu's first satellite, which the company ordered from SSTL in 2021.

July Investment Activity

July 5 Virginia Venture Partners, the equity investment program of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation, announced that it made an investment of undisclosed amount in Virginia-based Lynk Global Inc., a start-up working to provide global satellite-based broadband connectivity services directly to standard mobile phones.

July 6 L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (L3Harris) and Mynaric AG (Mynaric) announced an agreement whereby L3Harris will invest 11.2m in Mynaric to acquire a 7.2% ownership stake in the company through the issuance of 409,294 new shares, reflecting a per-share price of approximately 27.37. As part of the transaction, Mynaric will become L3Harris' preferred provider of laser communications systems, and the companies will collaborate on laser communications technologies.

July Launch Services Performed

July 7, 10, 17, 22, 24 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) successfully performed five launch missions for its Starlink low-Earth orbit broadband constellation, launching batches of 53, 46, 53, 46 and 53 satellites, each time using a Falcon 9 launch vehicle and then recovering the vehicle's first stage. The second of the five missions was the first dedicated Starlink launch to polar orbit, with satellites dedicated to a new polar-orbiting layer in the Starlink system. There are now more than 2,500 Starlink spacecraft currently operating on orbit.

July 13 Arianespace S.A. successfully conducted the inaugural launch of the new Vega-C medium-lift launch vehicle for the European Space Agency, orbiting Italy's LARES-2 physics satellite together with six scientific cubesats from Italy, France and Slovenia. The first Vega-C commercial mission is scheduled for November of this year.

New Investment Funds Target Space

July 7 New venture capital firm Stellar Ventures announced the formation of SV Andromeda Fund LP with more than $23m in capital commitments to invest in space technology.

July 17 The United Arab Emirates announced the establishment of the National Space Fund, with more than $800m in government funding to support the country's space sector, including a new SAR satellite system called Sirb.

July 20 Boeing announced that it agreed to provide $50m in capital to AEI HorizonX, a new venture fund managed by AE Industrial Partners, LP and focused on aerospace technology.

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Australians See Space More as a Danger Than a Benefit, According to New Global Research – Business Wire

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SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia was at the forefront of the first space race and played a vital role in Apollo 11s iconic Moon landing in 1969. Half a century later, Australians are more likely to see space as a threat than a frontier full of positive possibilities, and just one in ten say they would like to work in the space industry.

According to a new global report from Inmarsat What on Earth is the value of space?, based on a survey of 20,000 people in 11 countries 49% of Australians are concerned about space junk and collisions and 44% are worried about polluting space, while just over one third (36%) say they feel hopeful about the possibilities of space, one fifth (21%) say they dont understand much about space and 10% say they dont care about space at all.

With the space sector attracting record levels of investment and expanding faster than ever before, it is essential than Australians learn more about an industry that will increasingly impact their lives, according to Inmarsat.

According to the report, Australians are twice as likely to associate space with aliens (21%) than with communications and connectivity (10%). Most concerning for the future is that younger generations appear to have a view of space built on movie depictions rather than reality. 31% of Australians aged 18-24 associate space with aliens, compared with just 11% of people aged 65+. In comparison, only 8% of this younger age group associate space with communications the sector that is leading global growth in the industry half that of the over-65s (16%).

Meanwhile, 70% of Australians said they had never heard of or had no idea about space-based Internet, and 36% said the same for weather and climate monitoring despite the first weather satellite having been launched in 1960 and 31% had never heard or knew nothing about GPS and Satnav.

I have a positive view that we can help people fall in love with space again. Ive worked in the industry for decades and see the truly amazing stories that are just waiting to be told, said Todd McDonell, President of Inmarsat Global Government, based in Sydney. Its understandable that with space-based technology so embedded in our everyday lives, it has become largely invisible, especially to a generation brought up with smartphones and tablets.

Space can enable a better way of living for us all, but public support will make or break this vital contribution to a better future.

What was really interesting is that, like their counterparts in other countries and despite a generally low level of awareness, Australians identified genuine causes of concern related to the space industry. As the sector goes through a period of major expansion with forecasts that the number of satellites in orbit will rise from 7,000 to over 100,000 by the end of this decade players in the industry have a vital duty to manage this growth responsibly.

Having come so far, we cannot afford to destroy the gift of space through poor stewardship, fear, ignorance or inaction. Sustainability on Earth cannot exist without sustainability in space. Responsible space exploration and stricter regulation is a must.

I see first-hand how space is playing a vital role in putting food on our tables, how it keeps us safe when we fly, how it enables us to buy goods from home and have these shipped to us from the other side of the world. Whenever a natural disaster strikes and damages Earth-based telecommunications, satellites are there immediately to support search & rescue and rebuilding efforts. Perhaps most importantly for the future, space technology lies at the heart of efforts to combat climate change.

Im sure that if the industry can tell these stories, especially to the younger generation, then interest in space will grow and we will see a new generation emerge one, much like back in the 1960s, who regard space as an amazing opportunity both as a career and as a force for positive change.

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Patrick Rowans Skywatch: Curiosity rover marks 10th year exploring Mars – MassLive.com

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NASAs Curiosity rover landed in Gale Crater on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012 at 1:32 a.m. 10 years ago this week. It is in good shape, and expected to continue its climb up Mt. Sharp for years to come.

Its successor, the Perseverance rover, set down in Jezero Crater in February, and Chinas first Mars rover, Tianwen-1 landed at Utopia Planitia in May.

Mars is currently in our morning sky, just one in a line of four planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) extending from north-northeast to southwest. In recent weeks, Ive made a point of getting outside around dawn to catch a few views, but had to jockey for position in various places on the street to see out between the trees and their mid-summer foliage. The neighborhood was utterly quiet in the morning twilight, so this did not present a problem.

Elusive Mercury was in this planet parade in early July, but low in the glow of sunrise. Uranus and Neptune are still in this line up, but too distant and dim to see without telescopes.

The planets constantly shift position in our sky and against the backdrop of distant stars because they are so much closer to us. Each world follows its own schedule, and shows little regard for our calendar an unruly behavior that prompted the ancient Babylonians to call them wild goats.

Now that we understand the planets and their orbits in fine detail, Mars, the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, has somehow managed to gained an outsized status. My Google search for Mars produced 1,750,000,000 results more than 2-1/2 times its nearest competitor Venus, with 650,000,000 results.

There are many reasons for this popularity. While not the brightest of the bunch, its unique rusty hue prompted its ancient designation as the god of war, and its modern nickname, The Red Planet. Remember when you look that we are seeing the actual color of Marss surface rocks and dirt through its mostly clear atmosphere.

(Only three celestial objects visible to the naked eye show us their bare rocky surfaces: The moon, Mars, and Mercury. Curiously, their names all start with the letter M, making them easy to remember.)

Mars also varies more in distance and brightness than any other planet. As Earth swings nearer to it in the coming months, we will see it brighten and move into our evening skies.

While its unique color and dramatic changes in brightness have intrigued people through the ages, our modern fascination got a kick start in the 1800s when Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli described its contrasting light and dark areas as seas and continents. He called the channels he saw through his new generation telescope canali. This was soon mistranslated into canals along with the idea of intelligent life there.

Enter Percival Lowell, an astronomer from Boston, who, from his private observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, mapped hundreds of canals he believed Martians made to carry water from the poles to the equatorial regions. He promoted his ideas in several books.

These were the inspiration behind H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds in 1898, and Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series starting with the novel A Princess of Mars. Burroughs used Schiaparellis names for Martian regions, and decided to make his Martians green the reason people still refer to aliens as little green men.

On Halloween Eve in 1938, Orson Welles and The Mercury Theater on the Air famously broadcast a radio version of The War of the Worlds, which convinced thousands that Martians were invading America.

Although most experienced astronomers never saw Marss supposed canals, questions persisted into the space age. I actually remember when the controversy was finally settled to everyones satisfaction in 1964 with the first ever close up images of Marss surface sent back by NASAs Mariner 4 fly-by probe. My Dad opened the glossy pages of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine with me as soon as it arrived, but I could not see much in the grainy black and white images.

When he walked across the room and held up the pictures, craters emerge from the noise. This was history. The alleged network of lines crisscrossing the surface of Mars were merely an illusion due to the human tendency to connect faint groups of dark smudges, such as those seen on Mars through telescopes, with imaginary straight lines.

The deep sense of disappointment many felt at this discovery was short-lived because a new era of Mars exploration was underway, and new surprises awaited. When the twin Viking landers touched down on opposite sides of the planet in 1976, they essentially revealed Mars as we know it today. Color images and data from an array of scientific instruments transformed our understanding of that world and proved that robots would be capable explorers of the Solar System.

By 2015, with New Horizons flight past Pluto, NASAs probes had visited of every major planet in the Solar System.The beautiful dynamic world we found at Pluto was just the latest in a long string of crazy revelations about the worlds of our Solar System.

Why does Mars still beckon? Of all the planets in our solar system, it is, in some ways, the most Earth-like. Roughly halfway in size between Earth and the moon, it has characteristics of both. With so little atmosphere, it has craters like the moon, yet there is enough for weather, including clouds like on Earth.

Mars seasons span a Martian year roughly equal to two Earth-years, but the Martian day, or sol, is only slightly longer than a day on Earth: 24 hours and 39 minutes. Mars is half again as far from the sun as earth, so it gets about 40% of the sunlight reaching Earth although a person standing there would hardly notice the difference.

The reduced sunlight does affect temperatures however, exacerbated by Marss lack of a significant heat-retaining atmosphere. At ground-level the mostly carbon dioxide air is less than one percent as dense as Earths nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The weak sun and thin atmosphere allow temperatures to drop to minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The ground can reach a balmy 70 degrees Fahrenheit in summer, but temperatures rarely surpasses the freezing point.

We can relate strongly to those alien hills and valleys because the sky is not black like on the airless moon. More significantly, the Mars sky sometimes appears blue. Pictures of such obtained by the Curiosity rover are particularly striking to those of us still struggling with the fact that this is another planet! (See above picture.)

Most of the time however, Marss sky is some variation on salmon, brown, or butterscotch depending on the angle of the sun, the direction you are looking, and the amount of dust in the air. Sunsets on Mars are blue, as opposed to our reddish sunsets.

Curiosity found strong evidence that in the distant past, Mars had warmer temperatures and enough water in liquid form to support primitive life. Whether any ever existed remains a mystery, but Curiosity has found intriguing hints including this years discovery of a kind of carbon that on Earth is associated with life.

All these things and more make it easy to understand why Mars, with eight active orbiters, three rovers, and one stationary lander, is the busiest place in the Solar System other than Earth.

There are probably many worlds orbiting other stars that are more like Earth, but Mars may be the closest example we humans will ever see in detail. The few images of extrasolar planets so far obtained are unresolvable dots, and no telescope will resolve the continents and oceans of a planet like ours even around the nearest stars for a very long time.

The Curiosity rover has raised Mars exploration to a whole new level, and we are well on our way to making The Red Planet a part of our world.

Find rise and set times for the sun and moon, and follow ever-changing celestial highlights in the Skywatch section of the Weather Almanac in The Republican and Sunday Republican.

Patrick Rowan has written Skywatch for The Republican since 1987 and has been a Weather Almanac contributor since the mid 1990s. A native of Long Island, Rowan graduated from Northampton High School, studied astronomy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in the 1970s and was a research assistant for the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory. From 1981 to 1994, Rowan worked at the Springfield Science Museums Seymour Planetarium, most of that time as planetarium manager. Rowan lives in the Florence section of Northampton with his wife, Clara, and their cats, Eli and Milo.

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For All Mankind’s Cynthy Wu on Kelly Baldwin’s Triumphs and Tragedies – TV Fanatic

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Another actress who is getting a lot of meaty material from For All Mankind is Cynthy Wu.

Cynthy plays Ed and Karen Baldwin's daughter, Kelly. Kelly is on Mars with her father and one of her best friends, has fallen in love with a Cosmonaut and is having his baby. That's a lot to unpack!

We jumped on the phone, and Cynthy shared her thoughts on everything Kelly has been experiencing.

So this is a huge season for Kelly, as her dreams are finally realized beyond her imagination. Can you talk about what it's been like for her to get this opportunity to actually go to Mars to test her project?

Oh man, it's been incredible and mind-blowing for Kelly. When we see her at the top of season three, she's camped out in McMurdo Station in a lab, studying bacteria and she's a happy little camper.

And then she gets an opportunity to take all of that research and go to Mars. So I think that she was pretty excited. And then I think as the season progressed, as you saw, she got to experience all the highs and lows along with the crew.

Oh, that's for sure.

Yes.

What challenges has Kelly experienced being on a different Mars mission from her father? They had always imagined that they would do that together, and then that took a left turn.

Well, I think certainly being on the NASA mission, it's her independent mission, right? So it's not having Ed or dad there to guide her at every step, which I think is natural for a young woman who's already out in the world with her own professional career.

So she's hitting the bumps along the road that any young woman in a field would be coming across.

But the difference then is the race aspect that she's competing against her dad to see who gets there first, which is both fun and also like, "Oh gosh, dad is not going to love it if he really doesn't get to be there first, because that's been his whole lifelong thing."

But yeah, we do get to see throughout the season too, how Ed does show up and how all the teams work together to help each other out because Steph goes down and they need each other's help to survive.

I thought it was interesting that she calls him out whenever she finds out about the water project.

Oh yeah. That was a big moment because, well, first of all, the Russians wouldn't be alive without NASA's help because Helios, under Dev Ayesa's guidance, chose not to rescue the Russians who were in distress.

And so then to find out that Helios and the Russians have been working together with their secret of liquid water, you kind of go, "Well, okay, that's a big betrayal because you guys need to bring us in on your findings because you wouldn't even be alive without us."

So that was definitely a huge moment. But obviously Kelly uses that to her advantage.

Sure, sure.

Because, hey, it's like, "Well, dad, obviously, that sucks finding that you guys have been working together behind our backs, but bring me in. I can do this. I have the research, and I know how to handle this to gather what we need." So yeah, like any smart person, she uses that connection to her advantage.

Kelly's also managed to fall in love, which whenever you have close quarters like that, it's probably going to happen.

Yeah.

And she also lost him, which, I mean, it's a nightmare scenario to be someplace that's going to remind her of him nonstop. How's she going to navigate that loss? And that's not even considering that other big moment.

Right. Oh my gosh. So I didn't see it coming, but yes, you're right. She's a young woman; they're living in close quarters, and she found a connection with an unlikely match, but it's a Russian guy.

So I think it was very human, and I love that the writers wrote that because things like this do happen. And I think they had a great connection.

I think Pawel, who plays Alexei did a wonderful job, and we had such great chemistry working together. And so when he was killed off, oh my gosh, I think I actually cried when I got the script.

Aww.

I was like, "Oh my God." We had so much fun working together. He is just the nicest guy. And his journey came to a close on our show, as it often does for folks because space exploration is dangerous, so that part was sad.

Gosh, Kelly's world was just turned upside down because it's like, oh, she fell in love. And then her dad is injured, and she's going out to look for him. And she's going with essentially this new love connection.

And then she comes back, her dad is found, but then her lover dies. And then the big spoiler, like you said, we find out that she's pregnant with his child.

I can't even imagine.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, nobody planned for a baby on board.

Nobody planned for someone to get pregnant.

Let alone Kelly.

God, when I got that script, I was just floored. And my jaw fell to the ground. I was like, oh my God, is this really happening? I literally felt the implosion, like shit hitting the fan. Are we going there? And it was like, yep, we're going there.

So yeah, it was hard for Kelly to wrap her mind around that, a youthful connection, something that's so human as falling in love and making a mistake that you got pregnant in space, but not just your life, but all of your crew members at risk.

And that's a huge, huge responsibility and such huge guilt that I certainly carried as Kelly towards the end of the season of just, God, of all places to get pregnant. How the fuck did I get pregnant in space? And now, what do we do? You know?

And I have to ask too, I mean, Danny is responsible for all of it; how is she going to wrap her head around the fact that one of her best friends just did this, and now, she lost somebody she fell in love with and who was going to be the father of her child.

Everybody is so close up there. I just imagine that explosion that we saw is going to be nothing compared to the emotional explosions that go through the last two episodes of the season. What can you tease about them?

Yeah. I think for Kelly's purposes, in the remainder of the season in Episodes 9 and 10, I don't think she is aware that Danny Stevens is the one who almost killed her father or got him killed. I don't think she's aware.

Obviously, the viewers were watching, and we know. You guys all know what's going on and how Ed came to be in that place. But I think for Kelly, I don't think Danny would be able to walk into a room without getting smothered if we all knew. You know what I mean?

Right.

But no, Danny Stevens is in Episodes 9 and 10, and he's still a part of the crew and working with everybody to figure out how to help Kelly and how to help deliver Kelly's baby. And that's the end of the season: do they make it? Are we able to help her deliver her baby safely? Yeah.

Oh, nightmarish.

Oh, every day, I was walking in like, "Oh gosh, here we go. Are we going to survive?" It was really just like, oh my God. Forget about exploring space just as non-pregnant humans. Yeah. Strap on a belly and see if you can make it out alive!

Oh my gosh, I can't wait to see it. I mean, this show is just so incredibly written and has so many unexpected turns that I'm sure we're in for yet another amazing finale.

Our writers do such an incredible job of marrying the wonders of exploration and how exciting and forward thinking it all is with the emotional realities of when you're out there fighting in space -- fighting the elements, fighting the unknown.

All of the emotions definitely come to a head, I feel, throughout the season, but certainly to the end of the season. And I can't wait for you guys to watch. It's really remarkable.

For All Mankind Season 3 Episode 8 premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday.

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Up and coming Welsh Trance producer could take US by storm – Herald Wales

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MOST dance music fans in south Wales have heard of Will Rees, a Welsh Trance music producer but now he hopes to embark on a journey across the pond to the clubs and events of the United States

It looks like Wills dream is about to become reality as club owners, managers and music promoters line up overseas to experss interested the young artist, proof that his international acclaim is now building.

It doesnt seem that long ago when Will became a resident DJ at Wales super club Escape at the age of 20. Since then he has gone on to produce his own music and released music on record labels such as Armada, Blackhole, Subculture, Kearnage, Future Sound Of Egypt and more.

Known for his Euphoric driving Trance sound but also a diverse producer tipping toes in different genres, he famously remixed for Armin Van Buuren, Gareth Emery, Bryan Kearney, Sneijder, Mark Sherry, Craig Connelly to name a few.

As well as collaborating with Artists such as Bryan Kearney, Craig Connelly, Paul Denton, Sam Jones & more, his original tracks have hit the number one spots on Beatport, and been supported by the worlds best Trance DJs.

The icing on the cake for Will was his music included, and having regular appearances Armin Van Buurens radio show. A seal of approaval from the de facto king of trance DJs.You may have seen Will Rees at some top clubs. He has played at some of the worlds best venues and festivals such as Dreamstate LA, Fabric London, Creamfields, Coloursfest, has forthcoming gigs and tours including Ministry Of Sound London, Thailand, Malta, USA and more.

This year has been a very strong year on the music front with tracks such as Burnin Up, Waking Dream and his remix of Luminosity Curve by Mark Sherry toping the beatport charts.

Will performed his first open to close set (6 hours) In Argentina in April 2022

Will performed a fanstastic outdoor set at Rhossili in Wales last year, one that dance fans said will be remembered for a long time to come. Check out the video here:

Who/What has influenced you musically growing up?

From the earlier days of Trance & House music it was Judge Jules, Boy George, Eddie Halliwell, Carl Cox, Erick Morillo, Big Al, John oo Flemming, Fergie, Sen Fontaine . Im into a lot of music generally so a lot of influence came from other genres too.

For many DJs/Producers there is a journey that leads them to where they are, how did you get into music, producing and DJing?

Got into music heavily around 1998/1999. I used to listen to all my brother & brother in laws CDs and suggestions from them. But it was my brother who got me into Trance. I went to college and studied music technology when I was 18, from there I become a resident DJ at escape in Swansea. Escape was the biggest club in Wales at the time & probably one of the best clubs in the UK in its peak. I started making music around that time and after the club closed its doors, I went on and continued to make music and DJ.

First gigs can be a nerve racking experience, do you remember your first live gig and how did it go?

Haha, it was in Carmarthen In Wales and the guys running the night played hardstyle. They chucked me on first and the only people I was playing too were my brother and his mates. Still I was nervous as hell.

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Fahadh Faasil’s best performances that are a treat to watch if you loved him in Pushpa & Vikram – PINKVILLA

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Fahadh Faasil, is the one such name that comes to mind as soon as anyone says the Malayalam film industry. He is one of the most talented actors in the South film industry, who has a power of a magician to captivate audiences with his fine acting. Be it as protagonist, antagonist, or supporting actor, he has the skill to transform into the character completely, making the process look easy at the same time.

In his career span, Fahadh Faasil managed to give the best with his film and performances. Although he shot national fame with his award-winning performance in the 2012 sleeper hit 22 Female Kottayam, his stardom has only risen in the past few years because of his villainy act in Allu Arjun's Pushpa: The Rise and Kamal Haasan's Vikram. But there is much more of Fahadh than Bhagawat, if you loved him Pushpa, and Vikram, take a look at his noteworthy performances that totally deserve your attention.

Today, we list the his best performances of the actor, which make him a cut above the rest.

Bangalore Days

One of the first films that brought Fahadh to a pan-Indian audience, Bangalore Days. Even though Fahadh Faasil appears in bits and pieces, he totally managed to steal the light amid the star-studded cats Nazriya Nazim, Dulquer Salmaan, and Nivin Pauly.

Remember the scene in which Das visits Natasha's house? That single scene is simple enough to show the brilliance of the actor. Watch it for sure to know what a fine actor Fahadh is, we bet you will fall in love.

Maheshinte Prathikaaram

It's only Fahadh who can make a simple storyline intriguing with his acting skills. Fahadh in Maheshinte Prathikaaram is a treat to watch, his performance to seek revenge for public humiliation and also became a critical and commercial success. The film also won the National and Kerala State Film Awards.

Thondimuthalum Drikasakshiyum

Fahadh Faasil doesn't care about screen time, screen space, or anything, you give him a role and he will ace it and director Thondimuthalum Drikasakshiyum is one such movie. Fahadhs versatility comes to the fore as he convincingly plays a petty thief named Prasad, who swallows a gold chain and is almost caught in the act. He won the National Award as Best Supporting Actor in 2018 for the film.

Kumbalangi Nights

Kumbalangi Nights is one of the best Malayalam movies. While the film is a delight to watch, one should definitely not miss Fahadh's performance in the role of Shammi - an unhinged MCP. It is called one of his finest performances ever.

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One of the most engaging thrillers during the COVID-19 lockdown, a missing fiance and her mysterious background is at the heart of the story. Faasil plays a cyber specialist who gets involved in all of it. Shot completely on iPhone, its also Indias first computer screen film.

Trance

Fahadh as a motivational speaker who transforms into an influential Christian preacher and performs hoax miracles and hoodwink the public. He take the audience on a heady, psychedelic journey. It also makes Trance an unforgettable experience and is one of his career-best performances ever.

Super Deluxe

It is dark-comedy anthology that revovles around four parallel stories that are interwoven. One of the best films of 2019, if you haven't watched this one yet then you're truly missing out. Fahadh's role can't be missed too as he shared screen space with Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Vijay Sethupathi.

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Toddler has adorable response when mom asks for a lick of his ice cream cone – In The Know

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This hilarious video of a toddler who wont let his mom have a lick of his ice cream cone has hearts melting all over TikTok.

TikToker Kayleigh (@kayleigh.gray.2020) is a full-time parent from the UK who often posts adorable clips featuring her darling son, Grayson. Recently, Kayleigh shared a video of Grayson enjoying an ice cream cone, but when she asked if she could have a lick, the toddler had an adorably honest response.

The clip opens with a shot of the little boy seated between his parents on a park bench. He holds an ice cream cone with both hands and happily devours it, one satisfying slurp after another.

Clearly living his best life, Grayson stares off into the distance in a trance-like state. However, his moment of sugary bliss is interrupted when Kayleigh asks, Can mummy have a lick?

No. Dont be weird, the toddler immediately retorts as if this were the most preposterous request in the world.

Kayleigh and her partner start cracking up over Graysons frank refusal. The video ends the same way it began, with Grayson slurping up his ice cream cone.

Kayleighs video had hearts melting all over TikTok like ice cream in the summer sun.

Such a cutie pie! I love the way he slurps it, complimented one user.

Is this animated? So cute, said one TikToker.

Other viewers playfully defended Grayson for being territorial about his ice cream cone.

Aww, thats my guy! I dont want to share my ice cream either, one ice cream lover shared.

Ice cream makes you speak up for yourself, mate, encouraged one user.

Wow, kids are getting way too advanced. It must be the ice cream, another viewer joked.One lesson viewers can take away from Kayleighs video is to not get between Grayson and his ice cream.

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Stranger Things Addresses Depression and Mental Health in the Most Crucial Way – Goalcast

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Warning: Some may find the following topics triggering.

Since it premiered on Netflix back in 2016, Stranger Things has captivated audiences with its compelling mix of sci-fi/horror and good ol 80s nostalgia. The mysterious world of the Upside Down came with terrifying monsters the characters had to defeat, but this seasons villain, Vecna, is the most horrific yet, and not for the reasons one might think.

Sure, Vecna is powerful, with abilities that surpass even Elevens. But what makes him so scary is that he is the personification of depression, trauma, and suicidality. Through Vecnas targets Chrissy, Fred, Patrick, and especially Max Stranger Things Season 4 presents the most heart-wrenching yet cathartic allegory for depression and suicide.

The most potent allegory comes with Max Mayfields main storyline. Shes dealing with immense depression over the death of her stepbrother Billy, who was killed last season by the Mind Flayer.

Between these two seasons, the guilt seems to have eaten away at her, because the very first episode presents a Max who is a shell of herself. Her wit and personality have been replaced with an aura of sadness. She blames herself for her brothers demise, and consequently, suffers from survivors guilt, believing she could have done more to save him. Her nightmares and flashbacks are signs of PTSD. Her witty personality is dampened and shes isolating herself from her closest friends. Shes seeing the school counselor but has trouble opening up to her.

These are all symptoms of depression, and as if this illness wasnt difficult enough to endure, Vecna steps in to make it even worse. It is revealed that he is the one inflicting the nightmares and flashbacks, amplifying the immense feeling of guilt, feeding into her deep sorrow.

Its clear Max is suffering terribly, especially as signs of suicidal ideation begin to make themselves very apparent.

After Vecna murders Chrissy and the others, he continues to torment Max with horrifying visions, feeding her false belief that shes to blame for Billys death and adding to her psychological instability. Eventually, in Episode 4, Dear Billy, Max realizes Vecna is coming for her next, which prompts her to write letters to her loved ones. Presumably, these are goodbye letters, and its common for such letters to be left behind by victims of suicide.

Shortly after this scene, she goes with Lucas, Steve, and Dustin to the cemetery where Billy is buried. The three friends know something is up, so Lucas tries to stop Max before she goes to her step brothers grave. Just talk to me. To your friends, Lucas pleads with her. Were right here. Im right here.

Maxs expression displays a mixture of contemplation and emotional numbness before she turns from Lucas and towards Billys grave. This is yet another parallel to real-life depression. In many cases, such as with Max, the sufferer may feel that they are bad and unworthy of help, causing them to push away their support systems.

Away from her friends, she begins to read the heartfelt and heart-wrenching letter to her step-brothers headstone. And once she finishes reading the letter, Vecna strikes.

The villain pulls her into the Upside Down while her physical body remains in the cemetery, eyes rolled back in a trance-like state. Luckily, Steve, Dustin, and Lucas rush to her aid, playing Kate Bushs Running Up That Hill through a walkman while they desperately scream for her to come back. But sufferers of depression cant just snap out of it, just as Max couldnt snap out of the trance Vecna put her in.

While this is happening in the cemetery, Vecna has Max trapped in the Upside Down. She has visions of a bloodied Billy, who tells her she wanted him to die, and reminds her of how she sometimes wishes she couldve followed him into death.

That is why I am here, Max, the vision of Billy says. To end your suffering once and for all.

Thats really all sufferers of depression want for their suffering to end. And sometimes, its difficult to see any other way out.

Trapped in the dark, bleak, grotesque world of the Upside Down, it seems there isnt any other way out for Max, either. Vecna is about to kill her her depression is about to kill her.

Here is where the iconic Running Up That Hill scene begins. Steve, Lucas, and Dustin run to her aid, playing the Kate Bush song through a walkman in hopes of bringing Max back. Just as music can be a very useful coping mechanism in real life, music serves as a temporary escape for Max as well. The song cuts through the darkness, and in the distance, Max can see her friends crowded around her body, pleading for her to come back.

In her darkest, most desperate hour, Max can see how much her friends love her. Flashbacks of her happiest memories play in her mind as the music swells and a semblance of hope seems to return to her. This gives her the strength to break away from Vecna and run to her friends, dodging everything the Upside Down throws at her in an attempt to thwart her escape. She returns to her body in the Hawkins cemetery, jolts awake, and falls down to the ground, her friends there to catch her and comfort her.

Once again, this scene allegorizes the experience of depression and suicidal ideation, this time emphasizing how powerful a steadfast support system can be. When Max is at her lowest, her friends stick by her. Shes able to see and realize how much shes wanted and remembers happy moments. And though it is anything but easy, she finally has the strength to run to the people who love her and accept their help.

Though Max appears a little less downtrodden throughout the rest of the season, shes nowhere near in the clear. Just as with any mental illness in the real world, coming back from a major depressive episode and narrowly escaping a suicide attempt is only the beginning of the recovery process.

Max continues to wear the walkman, constantly listening to Running Up That Hill, and while music can be a good distraction and grounding tool, it only works temporarily for people who are suffering mentally. This is evident in the way that Max can avoid Vecna with music, yet cannot completely rid herself of him.

Max sticks close to her friends for the rest of the season, and her friends stick close to her. There are scenes where her friends keep checking in on her and get a little frightened when shes out of their sight for even a minute, afraid Vecna could strike again at any moment. This is similar to how, when a person is experiencing a mental health crisis, their loved ones may remain physically close to them should any self-harm thoughts resurface.

Stranger Things Season 4s underlying theme of mental health struggles is powerful, especially for sufferers of depression and suicidal ideation. When done correctly, it can be cathartic for someone to see their experience reflected to them on screen. Stranger Things lives up to this standard, as it conveyed the experience of depression through Max and Vecna in an artistic yet relatable and accurate way, including the symptoms one might feel and the enormous difficulty that is recovery.

If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988, or text TALK to 741-741 to reach the Crisis Text Line.

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OK, You Need to See Jamie Campbell Bower Sing Lizzo’s About Damn Time in His Stranger Thing Vecna Voice – Seventeen

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A Stranger Things x Lizzo crossover is not something we had on our 2022 bingo cards, but now that its happened, we couldnt be more grateful.

On August 3, Jamie Campbell Bower the actor behind Stranger Things season 4s sinister villain, Vecna made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During the interview, host Jimmy Fallon asked Jamie to recite several iconic phrases from pop culture in Vecnas menacing voice.

For you, Jimmy, anything, Jamie said, before repeating Julia Robertss famous Im just a girl line from Notting Hill, the Cocoa Puffs slogan, and Roses passionate declaration to Jack in Titanic, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.

Then, to our absolute delight, Jamie delivered a spine-chilling rendition of Lizzos summertime bop, About Damn Time.

In a minute I'm a need a sentimental man or woman to pump me up. Feeling fussy, walkin' in my Balenci-ussy's, tryna bring out the fabulous, he sang in his demonic tenor. Yes, weve watched it a dozen times over. Yes, we need him to recite the whole song. And yes, we cannot believe how seamlessly he drops his voice to the unhuman level of Vecnas.

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Earlier in the interview, Jamie detailed the process of creating the monsters unforgettable roar.

It took a few months to get right, he shared. We did the read-through, and I was there kind of at the table reading with everyone. I sat behind Millie [Bobby Brown] and I was doing the voice, and it started in this like very kind of like nasally kind of area, kind of more like Freddie Kreuger and it just wasnt landing.

He went on to explain that he researched past horror villains such as Hellraiser and the actor behind Pinhead, Doug Bradley. From there, he landed on the deep, booming voice that seems to come out of the darkness.

I loved it, it was amazing, Jamie added. So I just kind of worked on that, and Im a singer so I kind of just relaxed myself, relaxed my larynx.

In any case, About Damn Time is most definitely a song that could snap us out of Vecnas trance just as long as hes not the one singing it.

Leah Campano is an assistant editor at Seventeen, where she covers pop culture, entertainment news, health, and politics. On the weekends, you can probably find her watching marathons of vintage Real Housewives episodes or searching for New York Citys best almond croissants.

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‘Gone In The Night’ Ending, Explained: What Happens To Kath And Max? | DMT – DMT

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Gone in the Night is a shaky, imbalanced thriller mystery film that seems somewhat lost in its own tale. Setting out to tell the story of a couple who go through an awkward time on their weekend getaway, the narrative shifts between timelines and ultimately ends itself not so satisfactorily. Surprise twists are left too late to have much effect, and there is hardly much to watch here other than Winona Ryders performance, maybe.

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Kath and Max have been in a relationship for around a year now, and the two set out for a getaway trip to a remote house in the woods that Max has booked for themselves. As Kath drives and discusses the suddenness of the trip with her boyfriend, it seems that Maxs haste in pushing for the vacation was because of his girlfriends love for nature and the outdoors. Finally, when Kath is tired of the long drive and the endless navigation instructions that she has had to follow, the two reach their destination much later in the evening. However, the scene that greets them is very unlike the romantic trip they had imagined for themselves, as the couple spots another car already parked in front of the house. Even before they can process such information, a man, visibly quite younger than them, walks out onto the porch looking at their car. Sure that there is some sort of confusion going on, as he had booked the house online and paid for it in full as well, Max goes over to have a word with the man, and Kath follows in a few moments.

The man argues that he and his girlfriend are occupying the house from before, and is quite dismissive of Max and Kath when they try to tell him of their booking. As a minor argument goes on for some time, a woman, quite clearly the strangers girlfriend, walks out of the cabin and offers the protagonist couple to spend the night inside the property along with them. Despite the plight that they would fall into if they drive away from the cabinthere are no hotels anywhere nearby, and Kath is clearly tired of all the driving and would herself have to drive again as Max does not know how to; Kath does not wish to intrude and wants to drive away. But when Max goes over and has a word with her, particularly about her already having had a lot of adventures, Kath quickly changes her mind and decides to stay at the cabin. The two couples get to know each other, and Al and Greta (the other couple) are not just much younger than our protagonists, but their choices and likes in life are also very different. Gradually, as they spend the night drinking and playing suggestive board games together, Kath feels that the easy-going Greta is trying hard to flirt with Max, and Max, too, is responding to it. Already tired of the journey and also a bit weirded out by this new happening, she retires to her room early and goes to sleep by herself.

When Kath wakes up the next morning, she notices that she is still alone in her bed, and then, stepping out of her room, she sees that she is alone in the whole house. With no cellular network at the place and also remembering about a walking trail that apparently goes over to a nearby beach from the house, she takes the path in search of her boyfriend. Within a few minutes, she runs into Al, who looks very disturbed, sitting with his face in his hands, and the young man claims that Greta and Max have actually romanced each other and have run away together. Shocked at the act of her partner, who is indeed nowhere to be seen, Kath runs back to the house and then drives back home on her own.

By now, Kath is already established as a woman who is rather shaky and under-confident about herself, especially about her growing age. The fact that her boyfriend, Max, is a few years younger than her does not help too much either. The woman had been a teacher to Max in a continuing education class when the two had developed an interest in each other and had then started their relationship. Despite starting off on very good terms, possibly, their differences had started to show as Max was more into getting themselves into seemingly dangerous, or as he calls it, adventurous, situations, while Kath did not really enjoy these. After Maxs disappearance, due to his apparent whirlwind romance with Greta, Kath wanted to let the matter be initially, as she tells her close friend that the situation was perhaps a boon as her relationship with Max was not going well. But within some time, curiosity catches up with her, and she tries searching for Greta on the internet but finds nothing. She then finds out about the owner of the property, the house in the woods where they had gone, and she calls the number up. The call is answered by a man named Nicholas Barlow, who insists that he cannot give out private details of any guests to anyone, and decides to meet Kath about her inquiry instead.

The two meet the next day, and Barlow seems a serious but helpful man who rather enjoys his conversation with Kath. The woman comes clean about what exactly has happened to her and why she wants to track Greta down, and Nicholas does not mind helping her. During their conversation, Kath also learns, through a stranger who walks into the caf they are in, that Nicholas Barlow had actually been a pioneer in a biotech startup in partnership with this stranger. This startup was being bought over by GlaxoSmithKline for a lot of money, but Barlow ultimately made his way out of it and lived a reclusive life from then on. As Kath and Barlow keep meeting over time, and eventually share a lot about themselves, the man says that his father had passed away from a genetic disease of the nerves called synaptic hypertropia just before the deal was signed, and this made him wonder about his own life. Having decided that he did not want a usual life just chasing financial checkpoints, Barlow had given up his professional career, had bought the cabin in the woods and moved in there to spend life by himself.

Going over to the address mentioned by Greta in her booking details, Kath finds the young woman entering an underground music performance and follows her there. Facing Kath, Greta awkwardly apologizes to her for being a home-breaker, so to speak, but her words do not seem too genuine. She kind of suggests that Max has started a relationship with her and does not really care about Kath anymore, and it appears like she has a sense of rubbing it in Kaths face. The young woman then drops her phone, and Kath takes a glance at the wallpaper, which is Gretas face beside the sleeping face of Max. Heartbroken and feeling rather disrespected, Kath drives over with Barlow, and the man now shares his lifes wisdom with her, talking about how he fears his fathers nervous system disease is bound to pass on to his body soon, as it is genetic. Kath asks whether he is doing fine so far, and the man reveals that he has, in fact, been researching the illness for thirty years, trying to come up with a transfusion therapy treatment against it. Once back at her home, Kath goes through the process of getting over her lover, who had clearly ditched her, and it does not seem to take her too much effort either, as she burns off Maxs hat, signifying that she wants to get over it. She then drives over to Barlows house in the woods one afternoon, hoping to meet him and spend some time together, possibly even wanting to turn their friendly relationship into a romantic one.

Along with all these things happening, Gone in the Night also spreads scenes of flashbacks over the course of its narrative, which reveal past incidents in Maxs life before their getaway trip, and the film builds up its tension and mystery in this manner. Only a day before they had driven to the woods, Max and Kath were hosting a few of Kaths friends for dinner, and Max was quite visibly detached from the serious conversations that they were having. He did try his best but felt rather ridiculed when his girlfriend made fun of his habit of wearing limited-edition, hard-to-find clothes. Leaving the party, pretending to buy some more wine, Max went over to a grocery store where he ran across a young couple having some sort of disagreement. This couple was the same that was earlier shown, that of Al and his girlfriend, Greta. Exchanging rather judgmental comments at first, Max agreed to go have a drink with the couple, perhaps, because of Gretas flirtatious questions towards him, which continued throughout the evening that the three spent together. The couple had then told Max about a music show that was about to take place two days later, and asked him to drive down to the cabin in the woods the next day, where they would spend the night and go over to the show the following morning.

Max returned home with this idea, and instead of going alone, he decided to take Kath along. When the couple arrived at the house the next evening, Al and Greta were initially shocked, and even a bit scared, especially Al, as it seemed that they had some ill intentions in mind, but Greta insisted her boyfriend play along with the whole scene. Max spoke to Al in private, telling him that he had decided to surprise his girlfriend by bringing her here, and Greta then let them stay. However, with the information now having been established that the house was actually not a place rented out, but rather Al and Greta had invited Max there, it raises a number of questions about Nicholas Barlows involvement in all this and what his real intentions are. At present, when Kath appears at Barlows door, he politely asks her in and then excuses himself, saying that he needs to gather firewood and walks into the forest area.

As Kath spends time by herself inside Barlows house, she goes around casually looking at things, and now stumbles upon a photograph of Barlow and Al, which clearly suggests that the two are father and son. The entire atmosphere changes into one of tension as Kath spots a locked door and opens it up with Barlows set of keys, which he had left on the counter. She then walks out into the woods and sees a large cargo container, and once again uses Barlows keys to get in. Here, she receives the shock of her life as she sees Max lying on a makeshift operation table, alive but with multiple medical incisions made on his body through which his blood is being pulled out into blood bags. She tries to wake him up, but Max only replies with gibberish, in a drugged trance. On the other hand, Al and Greta had been inside Barlows house when Kath had knocked, which made the young couple run out and hide in the woods. When Barlow excuses himself to go gather firewood, he actually meets them, and when they return to the house, they find that Kath has opened up the locked room leading to the section of the woods where they had abducted and kept Max. They, too, now go to the cargo container, and things fall into place through their confrontation.

Al had been convinced that his father, Nicholas Barlow, had the same synaptic hypertrophy that had killed his grandfather, and was desperate to help his father recover from the illness. He knew of his fathers research into a blood transfusion treatment and also knew that they needed fresh blood, meaning a donor, to carry out the transfusion. He and his girlfriend, Greta, had planned the entire scheme to lure Max into their house, and Kaths presence only slightly affected this plan. They had managed to get Max out of the house, and had then abducted him and handed him over to Barlow. The father keeps insisting that he did not have any idea about his son and his girlfriends twisted plans before they had actually carried them out, but Greta now makes a grave revelation about the man. She produces a medical document that shows that Barlow did not actually have the neurotic disease and was essentially doing the whole transfusion therapy to renew his blood cells with that of a younger man, trying to lengthen his already natural life. Greta also admits that she had actually played along with the whole plan because she herself wanted to lengthen her own life in the same manner, and her character turns out to be a rather evil one who insists that they should now kill Kath. Al, who genuinely believed that his father was dying, confronts the man, saying that he should have told him the truth, and Al ultimately sides with his father rather than his girlfriend. Kath had earlier tried to stop the blood transfusion process and pull out the IV channels on Maxs body, but Barlow claimed that doing so would not help him as the blood of their two bodies (Max and Barlows) now shared a single blood supply source, and Max would have to stay in this process forever. Kath now suddenly claims that she wants to receive this transfusion herself, saying that she too had unfairly used Maxs young age in a slightly different manner as she tried to feel young herself through Max, and essentially bought some unattended time for herself. During this short time, she decides to take the chance of rescuing Max and pulls out all the IV channels from his body, and walks him towards the exit. Greta tries to get in the way, but she is stopped by Al, on the instructions of Barlow, who does not want to do any harm to Kath. However, in an even more surprising twist, Max, in his delusional trance, rips out a tube attached to his throat, spitting out blood everywhere, and the man dies quickly from extreme blood loss. Kath leaves the container alone and locks it up from the outside with Barlow, Al, and Greta still in it. She then rushes to her car, looks at her aging skin once again in the rearview mirror, and comes out again to enter the empty cabin. Kath goes over to a window and looks out towards the woods, and Gone in the Night rolls its end credits here.

The director has evidently kept a mystery, or at least an air of uncertainty, with the ending, as Kath first decides to leave and then suddenly decides against it. Whether her decision to enter the empty cabin again was to take a breather from all the sudden emotional and physical shocks that she faced over the last few minutes, or whether her intentions were something else, is left to ones imagination. However, with the sort of characterization that Kath has been given throughout the film, her issues about her growing age and its physical manifestations are real. Now that her boyfriend is also dead, she probably has very little to lose and might actually force Barlow to transfuse blood for her, which would then stop her aging process. Gone in the Night keeps away its crux for far too long and then presents all of it so rapidly that it hardly has any effect. The twists, in the end, do not convince at all, and ultimately make the film a disappointing watch.

Gone in the Night is a 2022 Drama Thriller film directed by Eli Horowitz.

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