This blog is not about my ex-girlfriends :) Its about Shaari ,Karthika and a few film actresses who have a special place in my heart . Now what is so unusual about having a crush on film actresses . Afterall it is expected to have a crush on an actress at least when growing up (I still do , so maybe i am not grown up after all ) .
What is little unusual is now after seeing so many women i look back to these actresses in particular and find them realistically speaking not that pretty after all .Even if you say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder leaving all else if you ask to rate these two particular actresses purely on beauty they will not be anywhere near the Aishwarya Rai or malayali actresses like Annie or Shobana . Then why i was mad about them and still am ... Its because the characters they enacted in the movies where so beautiful that it is impossible not to fall in love with them . Be it the pretty Syrian Christian girl played by Shaari in Namukku paarkan munthiri thoppukal (Vineyards for us to live ) or the newly moved in neighbour played by Karthika in Gandhi Nagar second street it is impossible not to feel a crush for the characters played by these great actresses . Malayalam cinema is known by the actors Mammootty and Mohanlal but if you seriously watch the malayalam movies in the 1980s (the golden age of malayalam cinema ) you would feel that wherever these successful men where there in great roles there were successful women not behind them but at their side playing great characters with depth .
Seeing a hollywood movie for example james bond will make you fall in love with the great action , the great cars and yes the great girls . There is no question that all of the bond girls are very beautiful some of them ex-models . But even after 25 years i dont have a crush for any bond girl . But i have a crush still on my favourite heroines of malayalam cinema and the characters played by them ...
See the music score from Namukku paarkan munthiri thoppukal ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EhOS2v84_Y and then see the movie and then comment on my crushes
What is little unusual is now after seeing so many women i look back to these actresses in particular and find them realistically speaking not that pretty after all .Even if you say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder leaving all else if you ask to rate these two particular actresses purely on beauty they will not be anywhere near the Aishwarya Rai or malayali actresses like Annie or Shobana . Then why i was mad about them and still am ... Its because the characters they enacted in the movies where so beautiful that it is impossible not to fall in love with them . Be it the pretty Syrian Christian girl played by Shaari in Namukku paarkan munthiri thoppukal (Vineyards for us to live ) or the newly moved in neighbour played by Karthika in Gandhi Nagar second street it is impossible not to feel a crush for the characters played by these great actresses . Malayalam cinema is known by the actors Mammootty and Mohanlal but if you seriously watch the malayalam movies in the 1980s (the golden age of malayalam cinema ) you would feel that wherever these successful men where there in great roles there were successful women not behind them but at their side playing great characters with depth .
Seeing a hollywood movie for example james bond will make you fall in love with the great action , the great cars and yes the great girls . There is no question that all of the bond girls are very beautiful some of them ex-models . But even after 25 years i dont have a crush for any bond girl . But i have a crush still on my favourite heroines of malayalam cinema and the characters played by them ...
See the music score from Namukku paarkan munthiri thoppukal ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EhOS2v84_Y and then see the movie and then comment on my crushes
if i remember right mamta kulkarni topped the list when you were a teenager
ReplyDeleteyes it still applies ... not for her acting though ...
ReplyDelete'Beauty' is a very different concept from 'pretty'. It has so much to do with one's depth of emotions. Emotions that spill onto one's external features, one's body language, one's expressions- 'pretty' can never be as alive as 'beauty'.
ReplyDeleteBeauty seems to have faded from screens as much as from real life. We get to see numerous plastic pretty faces while beauty is a rarity. A lot of it perhaps comes from the lack of 'moulding' by life and the insensitivity that develops thereby.
Couldnt agree more . I frequently see malayalam movies of the 1980s period and each time i see it i feel "more human " . Of course after seeing it reluctantly have to be in the world of plastic faces .. Thanks for the thoughful comment and also your diary blog is very good ( from the heart blog) ...keep writing
ReplyDeleteI do that too....watch those movies all the time!
ReplyDeleteI have been devouring all your posts. You have touched upon diverse issues and your perspectives are quite interesting. Will post comments on all...you have set my thought process rolling.
Btw, thank u for reading me..
Vidya
@vidya thanks for commenting the ultimate gift for a blogger :) Please write more blogs . Your blogs are nice and very honest too .. I like it
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