Bollywood has no place for mom Aishwarya Rai or bride Kareena

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July 12, 2012
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Unlike Hollywood, Bollywood heroines have to pay a huge price to have a satisfying personal life. Marriage is a taboo for them and they can afford to have kids only after their career is virtually over. They have an extremely short shelf life, unlike the men who continue to play lead roles well into their 50s.

However, there are some exceptions such as Sharmila Tagore who have given the best performances of their lives after their marriage and children.

But for most heroines, having an affair is acceptable to Indian audience but once they are married, they are no longer in demand as Indian men balk at being publicly caught gawking or staring at married women or rather at someone else's 'woman'. Singles are, of course, acceptable.

Recently, two women have been paying very dearly for their decision to carry on with their lives.

Aishwarya's decision to have a baby after 18 years in the glamour industry meant signing off from the film she was shooting for - Heroine.

While Kareena Kapoor was conveniently placed to land the plum role, she is now in hot water herself as Sanjay Leela Bhansali has thrown her out of 'Ram Leela', an adaptation of Rome and Juliet, for daring to get married claiming that his 'Juliet' cannot be a married girl. Bhansali was not worried about Kareena's marital status even though the actress and her beau, Saif Ali Khan, have been going strong for quite some time.

Karishma Kapoor, Kareena's elder sister and winner of many awards for her performances, also lost her fans after her marriage. She tried to make a comeback with 'Dangerous Ishhq', but the film proved to be a dud at the box office.

Madhuri Dixit Nene has yet to give a hit after having kids. Her attempt in 2007, Aaja Nachle did not really set the cash registers ringing. She has moved back to India with her husband and kids in tow to try her luck in films and television. Hope, Indian audiences accept 'Dr Shriram Nene's woman' in Ishqiya sequel.

Another top heroine to decided to log out when she was at the peak of her career was Kajol. She got married to Ajay Devgn in 1999 just after delivering four consecutive hits in 1998. She has been compatatively lucky with her films post-marriage, but has delivered only three hits thereafter.

Girl next-door, Genelia Deshmukh nee D'Souza who recently got married to her longtime boyfriend and fellow actor Riteish Deshmukh has no projects in hand after getting married. Her career in films is virtually over. She can probably think of taking up a career in television.

Heroines such as Sridevi did not reveal to public that she was married to the much-married producer Boney Kapoor and was pregnant by him, till she delivered her first daughter in a hospital in Mumbai.

Juhi Chawla did hum-ho about her marriage with Jay Mehta for a long time. No one was clear if she was married or not. After her kids, she took the art film route. However, her costars like Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are still going strong despite grown up kids and rumours of affairs.



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Speaking here on Thursday night at an event organised on the 5th death anniversary of CPI senior leader and progressive leader Com Govind Pansare, Mr Akhtar said the newly amended citizenship act was a plot to split the country.

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London, Feb 12: Oscar-winning British director Steve McQueen is returning to his art roots with a series of short films at London's Tate Modern art gallery, offering a sensory exploration of black identity.

McQueen, who became the first black director to win the best picture Academy Award in 2014 for "12 Years a Slave", is now based between London and Amsterdam and is focused on championing diversity in the film industry.

Visitors to his new exhibition will be greeted by "Static", a film of New York's Statue of Liberty, scrutinising the iconic symbol from every possible angle at very close range against a deafening backdrop of the helicopter from where the footage was filmed.

"What interests Steve is our view of the world, how humans are trying to represent Liberty," said Fiontan Moran, assistant curator of the exhibition.

"7th Nov, 2001" features a still shot of a body while McQueen's cousin Marcus tells of how he accidentally killed his brother, a particularly traumatic experience for the artist.

"Western Deep" is another visceral work, giving a sense through sights and sounds in an interactive installation of the experiences of miners in South Africa, following them to the bottom of the mine.

"Ashes", meanwhile, is a tribute to a young fisherman from Grenada, the island where McQueen's family originated.

The images of beauty and sweetness filmed from his boat are tragically reversed on the other side of the projection screen, which shows a grave commissioned by McQueen for the eponymous young fisherman, who was killed by drug traffickers.

African-American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976) is honoured in "End Credits".

The film shows censored FBI documents detailing the agency's surveillance of Robeson, read by a voice-over artist, for five hours.

"He is... testing the limits of how people can be documented in an era of mass surveillance," said Moran.

In a similarly militant vein, the exhibition features the sculpture "Weight", which was first shown in the prison cell where the writer and playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned.

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The show runs alongside an exhibition of McQueen's giant portraits of London school classes, many of which appeared on the streets of London last year.

"I remember my first school trip to Tate when I was an impressionable eight-year-old, which was really the moment I gained an understanding that anything is possible," said McQueen, adding it was "where in some ways my journey as an artist first began".

He recently told the Financial Times newspaper the difference between his art films and his feature films was that the former were poetry, the latter like a novel.

"Poetry is condensed, precise, fragmented," he said. "The novel is the yarn".

The exhibition opens on February 13 and runs until May 11.

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