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Mumbai, Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who is blessed with a good figure, says she does not believe in being size zero as the Indian body type is not meant for it.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don’t believe in that either,” Deepika told IANS. I believe that it’s nice to be little full and have a nice shape,” she added.
The Bollywood actress was the show stopper for designer duo Shantanu & Nikhil’s show at the Lakme Fashion Week here Sunday.
According to Deepika, an actress gets a role for her performance and not the body type.
“In the (film) industry, body size doesn’t matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his body size,” explained Deepika.
“It is important that every person should wear clothes that go with their body – the cut, the fabric make a lot of difference,” she added.
Be Ajay Devgan’s guest. So many films about the guest as an intruder. But this one takes the creak. And yes we do mean creak. The plot sets out to portray the ‘bin bulaye mehmaan’, or uninvited guest, as a pest rather than a guest and finally spends agonizing playing time portraying him as a messiah in a dhoti.
Trust Paresh Rawal to get into the skin of his character. From first frame to the last, Paresh has a blast. He doesn’t let go of a single moment of joy in embracing the role of the unwanted guest in Mumbai’s very hectic self-absorbed nuclear family where, as Devgan says in his heated summing-up homily, even parents are not welcome after the first few days.
Desolation is a distant cousin to suburban seclusion. And “Karthik Calling Karthik” is an interesting if flawed fable of the damned. The protagonist is Karthik (Farhan Akhtar), so timid he could merge into the woodwork of his office if only the decor was not so much glass.
Karthik is bullied by his boss (Ram Kumar), sniggered at by his smarter colleagues and absent-mindedly ignored by the beauty in the workplace whom Karthik gazes at sideways and writes scores of unsent e-mailS to. She’s the unattainable beauty.
This is the world of ‘Rocket Singh’ without the turban and the placidity. While Shimit Amin’s “Rocket Singh – Salesman Of The Year” was about an office-goer who craved for acceptance, Karthik just wants to be less unhappy in his space. It’s not too much to ask for. But who’s listening? Except a voice on the phone that sounds suspiciously like Karthik’s to his own ear.
The build-up of Karthik’s dreary world captures the claustrophobia of suburban existence without forgetting to add humour to the proceedings. The moments between Karthik and the gregarious Shonali (Deepika) have that touch of lively realism taken from lives we’ve known, lived and somewhere tried to reject. However, the dialogues between the couple try too hard to be ‘cool’.
The relationship that Karthik develops with Shonali is far outdistanced in intensity by the one that he develops with the Chinese phone set. And after a while the ‘extended monologues’ begin to lose their credibility.
Even though Aamir Khan’s comedy-drama ‘3 Idiots’ was the biggest hit of 2009, filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj’s crime caper ‘Kaminey’ has surpassed it in bagging the maximum nominations for the 55th Idea Filmfare Awards.
3 Idiots,’ starring Aamir, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Kareena Kapoor, was highly appreciated by viewers and critics alike but it managed to get only seven nominations in comparison to the nine nominations bagged by ‘Kaminey’ and eight by Saif Ali Khan’s debut production venture ‘Love Aaj Kal’.
It’s “Click” that’s meant to be this week’s horror flick. But “Toh Baat Pakki” is a bigger horror than anything in any recent weeks. And to think that the divine Tabu stars in it makes the blood boil.
On paper, the idea of playing the busybody housewife Rajeshwari, who seems to have only one mission in life, namely to see her sister (newcomer Yuvika) married off, must have sounded like an exciting new character to explore for the brilliant actress. Alas, Tabu had not bargained for the mundane situations and the pedestrian dialogues that her character has been put into.
“Toh Baat Pakki” is one of those tragic comedies that don’t elicit a hint of humour. The plot is intrinsically bereft of ingenuity and the direction is strained most of the way.
