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Give her six months more and she will redefine the rules of the industry’.” Deepika Padukone and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have had very successful careers in Mumbai regardless of their ethnicity because they fit the beauty ideal. While Star & Style carried a cover story of Sridevi declaring ‘Rekha is my only friend’, Rekha gushed in Filmfare: ‘Sridevi is No. Sridevi would also often write letters to Rekha while shooting away from Bombay. Perhaps they had found a kindred spirit in each other, both having coped with body shaming, language issues and the migration from south. As Satyarth Nayak writes in his biography on her, Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess, “Rekha had taken her under her wings and was coaching her in the ways of Hindi filmdom.
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Sridevi moved to Hindi films after a full career in the south, having to unlearn a lot and relearn how to dress, behave and maintain herself. Vyjayanthimala and Waheeda Rehman paved the way for Hema Malini and Rekha. Sohanlal’s assistant, chosen to rehearse with Vyjayanthimala in the now iconic-dance-off with Helen in Dr Vidya (1962), was Saroj Khan.
I became an all-India star overnight.” Her grandmother, Yadugiri Devi, who was her guiding light, also imported Kathak-trained maestros B Sohanlal and Hiralal to Mumbai. There was no footwork, mudras or facial expressions. All the actors did was sway to the music. Recalling Bahar (1951) that marked her entry into Hindi films, Vyjayanthimala once said in an interview: “ Bahar took the north by storm because till then they hadn’t seen real dance in films. Vyjayanthimala, trained in Bharatanatyam, was perhaps the first of the southern actors to move to Mumbai for movies, followed by Waheeda Rehman, also a classically trained dancer.
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Indeed, Menen’s career has been studded with unconventional choices, whether it is as a young architect who chooses to live with her partner without marriage in Mani Ratnam’s beloved OK Kanmani (2015) or playing one-half of a lesbian couple in Awe (2018).īut how much of this renewed demand is because of a certain standardisation of beauty across the country? Many women in film industries across India (barring Malayalam perhaps) have resorted to plastic surgery to conform to culturally accepted standards of fair skin and size zero so their market widens. “But I’ve always chosen content over quantity in the south and am looking forward to recreating that in Hindi,” adds Menen.
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I had no clue south Indian films were so popular because they were being dubbed.” From taxi drivers to students, everyone she met told her they preferred to watch films from the south, no matter their original language.Īfter Mission Mangal and Breathe 2, she says she gets more calls from the south but also for films by Bengali directors. So I went to dinner with a friend and when I came out, waiting for my car, people gathered around me and started asking me about my work. In my head, I thought Mumbai would be really chilled out and I could relax. As she says, “I always thought it would be difficult for me to get privacy no matter which city I go to in the south because I work in so many languages.
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It’s something Nithya Menen discovered even before she ventured into Mumbai with the ensemble film, Mission Mangal (2019), and the web series Breathe: Into the Shadows (2020). The southern film heroine, once in demand purely for her dancing skills, is now being discovered by the rest of India for the intensity of her craft, fluency in languages, and increasing adaptation to Bollywood’s obsession with thinness and fairness.It helps that she brings in an additional audience, with those who have been fed on dubbed versions of southern films either on television or on streaming. Samantha Ruth Prabhu Akkineni, learning Hindi for her Mumbai debut, is as much in the news for her fierce portrayal of Raji in Amazon Prime Video’s The Family Man. Priyamani is the ever-reliable Suchi of the same series who went on to play roles in Maidaan and Atlee’s new film, while Nithya Menen and Keerthy Suresh are picking and choosing their pan-Indian films and series at leisure. Nayanthara is starring with Shah Rukh Khan in Atlee’s film, tentatively titled Lion.