One reason why Bollywood can't think past love, sex and drugs is that the amount of emotions that these characters need to portray are very limited, which is turn is very convenient for the so called STAR kids.
Come on guys, everyone says that Abhishek Bachan is a talented actor. Well before I defame him let me put across some facts!(truth's) about Abhishek, lest I incur the wrath of his fans. AMITABH BACHAN is India's biggest star and an entry for his son into Bwood was a foregone conclusion. I am not mentioning his start-up movies lest you get the tendency to puke. I was watching a show in NDTV lately and Abhishek was telling the audience."See Star kids are not special. Its true that you get your first break in movies based on your Star status, but we are alone after that." May be true in some cases, but our dear Abhishek had 17 flops before he got his first hit. Of course, he is a much better actor now, but given that many opportunities even I can ACT :)
Now the host of the show was Farhan Akhtar and he promptly replied "Ya true, the only difference between the HARD Working Star KID and the aam aadmi is that the Star KIDS will come in their BMW's even for auditions.'
Well Malayalam movie industry is safe from this trend. Well at least till Prithviraj came along. Now I do like him. He is a good actor and have done some good roles. But his launch movies are un-watchable. I can sit through "Manjil Virinja Pookul" even now. That's the difference between people who come up in life by proving their capabilities and those for whom the whole life is a set of privileged opportunities.
Like Jagathy rightly said " To enact a humour scene 100 % convincingly an actor must have encountered a similar situation in his life or at least something related to that incident. To portray the struggle in a common mans life comically, you need to identify yourself with those characters. All the actors prevailing in this generation have come up that way. The newer generation, that too STAR kids(who are so used to all the worldly pleasures) will find it pretty difficult to identify and relate with good CHARACTER roles. That's why the newer generation is always prone to act in movies related to love, sex and drugs.
Awaiting a saviour. Let actors like Kay Menon come to the forefront in Bollywood, rather than the craps like shahid, ranbir, kibir, kunbur etc
2 comments:
While I agree to your views on star kids and Big B's puttar...IMHO Shahid is def. better than the lot.. Am referring to the female star kids as well and in particular Shahid's ex here.
Not exactly a star kid, but have you seen Abhay Deol movies? He rocks. Barring Honeymoon travels each of his movie has something different to look forward to. He is probably the only person in the Deol clan who can act!
My heart goes out for Kay Kay, Irfan Khan. These guys just rock!
I am an Abhay Deol fan. The New interpretation of Devdas was brilliantly done....
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