Meryl Streep : Sophie's choice
Uma Thurmon : Kill Bill
Julia Roberts : Pretty women
Judi foster : Silence of the lambs
Charlize Theron : Monster
Kate Winslet : Titanic
Frances mcdormand: Fargo
Now look at bollywood actresses and their best performances.
Meena Kumari : Pakeeza
Madhubala : Mughal e azam
Rekha : Umrao jaan
Smita Patil : Mandi
Shabana Azmi : Mandi
Tabu: Chandni bar
Kareena : Chameli
Alia : Gangu Bai.. ( arguably)
In Hollywood, actresses have excelled and given their best performances while playing a cop, a serial killer, divorced women , a trainee journalist, a girl in love and a call girl.. writers have written brilliant characters and scripts exploring all aspects of women characters and thus extracted such diverse range of performances..
When we land in our own dream city Mumbai, look at the best performances by actresses, invariably either they play a prostitutee or a courtesan. This doesn't show that anything is lacking in our women but definitely raises a big question mark on part of our writers and their narrow vision. How come they have explored only this aspect of women so deeply while neglected an ocean of possibilities to write women characters other than prostitutes where our actresses can excel.
It is a point to ponder and shows a big room for improvement available in developing women characters in Bollywood scripts. Come on Bollywood.. please get out of those badnaam galian and kothas.. aur bhi gham hain zindagi mein mujre ke siva.. you have done good and that's enough..
Give us our own Kill Bill and Fargo..
P.S. I am not going to watch any Gangu Bai anymore as there can't be anything new not done already atleast twenty times.
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