Bollywood Sirens Over The Years
By:
Arya
Aiyappan
Thursday,
March
15,
2007
Gone
are
those
days
when
the
Lakshmi
of
the
gharana,
coy
and
shy
never
ventured
beyond
the
four
walls
of
the
safe
hearth
or
for
the
matter
the
kitchen,
her
private
domain.
The
ideal
Indian
woman
clad
in
attire
graceful
and
elegant,
dared
not
cross
the
boundaries
of
decency,
lest
society
should
ostracize
her
for
exposing.
Hindi
cinema
heroines
are
indeed
the
'Devi'
incarnate
as
against
the
vamps
sizzling
on
screen.
Demure
in
her
own
way,
under
constant
surveillance
she
could
never
overstep
the
society's
'lakshman
rekha'.
Times have changed, so also the mind-set once clustered and cloistered. The winds of change are blowing across violently lashing against all odds. Taboo once the norm has given way to sex and exposure. Revealing clothes, sensuous ada and titillating song-dance sequences are the vital ingredients that go into the making of an appetizing film. The recipe is rather simple - an overdose of sex, sleaze, titillation and violence . Echoing B. R. Chopra's observations about the modern Hindi films, "It's about sex sex sex."
The sudden turn of events has definitely taken the film industry by a storm when every other day a hullabaloo crops up over some controversial scenes - vulgar dresses, obscene dance numbers, dirty language and to top it all the camera zooming in to augment the vision. Gyrations, pelvic thrusts, revealing costumes, seductive and enticing looks, and kiss-and-tell scenes, not to overlook dialogues with sexual undertones have become the staple diet. Movies suggestively portray skimpily clad actresses indulging in a luxury bath apparently semi-nude. These sensuously provocative scenes arouse the audience' sexual urges.
Mallika Sherawat in Khwaish, Bipasha in Jism, Neha in Qayamat, and to the latest controversy of Aishwarya Rai's (the to-be Bachchans' bahu) scanty clothes in Dhoom 2 have conferred a new face to Hindi cinema wherein overexposure is quite commonplace. The trajectory is astounding as we move on from "Chaudhvi ka chand..." to " Choli ke peeche kya hai?" to " Sexy, sexy, sexy mujhe log bole...." Apparently the "don't-give-a-damn attitude of actresses" has contributed to the birth of a vast plethora of movies focusing on sensuously vivid themes.
Obscenity and sex are becoming irresistibly charming to an audience craving for more when their palates are full to the brim.
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