tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post3143505034297805190..comments2024-03-29T14:51:07.745+05:30Comments on Shobhaa De: 2012: The year of the heroine as 'hero'!Shobhaa Dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05610708004901279105noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-61430467799873333052012-01-23T10:07:48.715+05:302012-01-23T10:07:48.715+05:30The previous post and this one both point out the ...The previous post and this one both point out the direction in which gender sensitivity is being guided by the moral spin doctors of our times. Both are steps towards liberating the Indian woman from the shackles of inequity but they are either very cautious steps or steps backward, since they manage to sneak past the male supremacy watchdogs within each one of us with a familiar wave of the hand rather than cheekiness.<br /><br />Here is a post that looks at <a href="http://subhorup.blogspot.com/2012/01/dirty-picture-sunny-leone-and-crimes.html" title="dirty picture sunny leone" rel="nofollow">Dirty Picture, Sunny Leone, and Crimes Against Women: The Real Dirt.</a> Do take a look !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-92017728581581418212012-01-15T17:23:10.411+05:302012-01-15T17:23:10.411+05:30I think VB has done an amazing job with the handli...I think VB has done an amazing job with the handling of her career. And i also hope she continues doign so considering the capability she's. Balan has managed to create a niche for herself. shes def not in the top conventional slot of heroines- true,but tis not like she ever aimed to be one. Look at her career, it ranges from a fantastic performance in Parineeta to a Munnabhai to a Paa, Ishqiya, NOKJ and TDP. I think she offers variety which people like viewing. ill be happy to see her is such films which are definetely entertaining not too art-housey but not too cliched and seen-that-already kinds. <br />Shes not a Tabu! Tabu's fab but her career and the time around which she acted is different from Vidya's. <br />i comprehend what you've say about other actresses- anushka, etc who're just there grabbing whatever they can but they need to create an image for themselves firstly by their selection of films, in terms of the clothes they wear and CONTACTS. so its a mix of it all.WhencutGoddamnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06521062193092203268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-75485931442885958982012-01-15T01:28:00.399+05:302012-01-15T01:28:00.399+05:30All the best to the Bombay-wallahs for their bhago...All the best to the Bombay-wallahs for their bhago-festival.<br /><br />Sure, an anti corruption movement to save the country cannot bring you out in large numbers, but a marathon with film stars and models probably can. Bombay, you are truly enlightened! <br /><br />And oh, make sure that you put a halo around the head of the guy who would issue a fatwa on me for not calling your city Mumbai. If you can get him to run with you - <i> Jhakaas! </i>Desi Babuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07955168775820391505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-27435437389800365792012-01-14T19:55:04.349+05:302012-01-14T19:55:04.349+05:30(“A gal’s gotta do what a gal’s gotta do”)
Shobh...(“A gal’s gotta do what a gal’s gotta do”) <br /><br />Shobhaji a better way would be to say "a bitch gotta do what a bitch does best". <br /><br />Just wait for the mating season for dogs and you will find various stray dogs following a poor bitch and almost all of them trying to reproduce with her at the same time - right on street, in broad daylight. <br /><br />I think you call this behaviour as bold in bollywood...Wonderful.Anil Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07185075142594811893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-77678733093691614082012-01-13T23:29:58.145+05:302012-01-13T23:29:58.145+05:30Meryl Streep played as 'Maggie Thatcher' i...Meryl Streep played as 'Maggie Thatcher' in the 'The Iron Lady' and not 'The Lady'. While, 'The Lady' is story based on 'Aung San Suu Kyi'.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17804032890948217437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-34282089631249677782012-01-13T20:37:55.894+05:302012-01-13T20:37:55.894+05:30Arrey this is Vidya's first film hit as a solo...Arrey this is Vidya's first film hit as a solo act. The choice of subject was tittilating enough to the desi audiences that the movie would have got a first rush if eyeballs... enough to ensure atleast a moderate hit. Woh to hona hi tha!<br /><br />The publicity machine worked overtime and Vidya was a willing participant in the selling of the film. If Vidya slipped into the role easily, that was a double bonus. So she can act. Good! Kudos to Vidya for selecting the right role.<br /><br />It remains to be seen if she can carry any other solo act films on her shoulders. Doing it once is easy, twice is hard and thrice is very iffy for Hindi Cinema.<br /><br />Once she does she will be typecast as a Tabu type and told to wear Khadi saris and a pony tail and play a harrased housewife or an aanganwadi worker.<br /><br />To be honest, type casting is not a bad thing at all. It ensures work. I mean there is always a slot for a harrassed housewife or a corrupt khadi wearing woman politician or a fiery village woman... no? I am not being snarky at all. It is a good thing all around. Tabu and Smita Patil, understood this and worked clever careers around this typecasting. Perhaps Vidya will too, or perhaps she will be able to be chameleon like and have both careers glamorous and ones that need read acting chops. I dont think any actress in Bollywood in the last 4 decades has been able play both sides of the fence.<br /><br />In any case calling Vidya a Khan is premature. She is Vidya Balan and if she is smart one she will continue being a Balan and try and straddle both fences where she does not have to carry every single film.<br /><br />The photographer was right. The Image is all. Endorsement magnet Heroine types - all have one thing in common. The type of men they are seen with in public. <br /><br />All these Heroine types, either have an international crown on their head or a seemingly well bred man on their arm (though I have to say Beauty crowns have lost their tarnish now, so Priyanka get yourself a society man or a minor princeling or something, to stay current. Katrina is ok, she is a gori afterall... no man required all the time, her firangipan works well enough, no acting skills required either). <br /><br />Desi society is still paternalistic and men centric enough that - the type of man that a woman is seen with - stamps which rung of society she is categorised in... aka that ill used term "class". Her appeal to an aspirational buying public is based on this class thing. Oh well.<br /><br />So Kangana quit being seen with regular guys and snag yourself a man who is seen in newspaper photographs sometimes but never written about except in terms of how much money he makes and who his grandfather is. Endorsements will come rolling in.<br /><br />Okay my lesson for a "bollywood business plan for attracting endorsements" is now over and I will go back to being a regular gal with no endorsement appeal at all :)Another Kiran In NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15949641865013106368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-4171970840178359212012-01-13T20:30:57.318+05:302012-01-13T20:30:57.318+05:30....but is this the way to show talent!!!!! What f.......but is this the way to show talent!!!!! What fall my country-women... from Bandini to Dirty picture!!!चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसादhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384457680652627343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-49843916638453320652012-01-13T19:18:00.857+05:302012-01-13T19:18:00.857+05:30Best Actress Award for sure if not Best Heroine. A...Best Actress Award for sure if not Best Heroine. Anyways, a Question:<br />How many actors have done negative/middle age man roles despite giving super hit as Hero during early prime time of their career? Very few. Likewise Vidya is the one who believes - Different.<br />Heroine lambi race ki - correct?<br />Re.: Ekta<br />100% filmy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com