Rajeev Masand: No One Wants to Act Opposite her! - Page 7

Originally posted by: you2

Actresses like Rani and Preity made hay when Aishwarya was blacklisted form Bollywood and she made an unsuccessful bid in Hollywood.

She came back with a bang in the item number Kajra re..and YRF who threw her out from Veer Zaara gave her ,her comeback vehicle DHOOM 2.

While the other 2 faded away..Aishwarya continued to flourish with the best projects even after her marriage..

And to date, is unarguably the second most popular actress after Katrina Kaif!

I agree, but I don't think she was unsuccessful in her international stint.

In those two years, she had a successful English film called Bride and Prejudice, earned the "most beautiful woman" tag, was on TIME cover, in the 100 most influential people in the world list, made it to Cannes jury, made it to Madame Tussauds, made it to several chat shows including Oprah and Letterman, became the most recognized Indian in the world. I would hardly call this unsuccesful. 😃

Plus, she never permanently left Bollywood. She had at least 3 Hindi films coming up every year even during her international stint.

And when she completely came back... she came back with a bang... Kajra Re, Dhoom 2, Guru, Jodhaa Akbar, Sarkar Raj... and by the time she came back, Rani, Preity had disappeared. Kareena, Priyanka, etc. were her new contemporaries. 😊

I feel bad for Priety and m not even her fan to begin with..Have always loved her outspoken nature offscreen..I never thought she was over diplomatic or boring like Rani..Its personal choice and I prefer actors being frank and honest instead of being fake.Yeah she was not a great actress but decent when compared to likes of Deepika/Sonam.She could play contemporary roles even better than Rani M .Yeah but cant carry off epic sort of roles like VZ..This forum definitely has something against 90's actrsses..Everyone will get old,audience may get bored of them..I m sure PC/bebo/Anushka will also have to bow out one day so there is no use playing the blame game..Even without ipl,surgeries rani's(even after being chamchi of adi,khans) or bipasha's career are not going great guns..Priety shouldnt have done all those botox surgeries though she was naturally pretty with those dimples ,smile and skin tone

Ash is definitely most popular indian actress globally..But its unfair u guys claiming she and Kat are the only popular actresses ever in history of Indian cinema.Every era of bollywood movies had popular actresses..Youth were equally crazy about Mads like in katrina's case back in late 80's..From the 80's its been like
Sridevi-Madhuri/Divya bharati-Juhi-Karisma/Kajol-Aish/Rani-Bebo/Kat/Aish
I think Kareena is also as popular as Ash only second to Kat..please dont ask me to post any articles as proof or quote..its my opinion and let it be:)

Originally posted by: wat_up

very sexist view. whether you a guy or a gal IMO

Hain? From which angle did you find my views sexist?

Originally posted by: VanityGirl

She didn't get into IPL and give acting a backseat. She is just a co-owner of her team! If SRK can be the OWNER of his IPL team and still continue with movies why can't Preity?

She took up IPL after 2008. And she didn't have a single hit after 2004-05. It's more like she took up a new 'profession' because of the dearth of new oppurtunities.

Also, I have no clue why she took up that Harvard course when she was going to comeback and be an actor anyway?

Originally posted by: MaSqUeRaDe

I feel bad for Priety and m not even her fan to begin with..Have always loved her outspoken nature offscreen..I never thought she was over diplomatic or boring like Rani..Its personal choice and I prefer actors being frank and honest instead of being fake.Yeah she was not a great actress but decent when compared to likes of Deepika/Sonam.She could play contemporary roles even better than Rani M .Yeah but cant carry off epic sort of roles like VZ..This forum definitely has something against 90's actrsses..Everyone will get old,audience may get bored of them..I m sure PC/bebo/Anushka will also have to bow out one day so there is no use playing the blame game..Even without ipl,surgeries rani's(even after being chamchi of adi,khans) or bipasha's career are not going great guns..Priety shouldnt have done all those botox surgeries though she was naturally pretty with those dimples ,smile and skin tone

Ash is definitely most popular indian actress globally..But its unfair u guys claiming she and Kat are the only popular actresses ever in history of Indian cinema.Every era of bollywood movies had popular actresses..Youth were equally crazy about Mads like in katrina's case back in late 80's..From the 80's its been like
Sridevi-Madhuri/Divya bharati-Juhi-Karisma/Kajol-Aish/Rani-Bebo/Kat/Aish
I think Kareena is also as popular as Ash only second to Kat..please dont ask me to post any articles as proof or quote..its my opinion and let it be:)

Originally posted by: kshreya2002

Hain? From which angle did you find my views sexist?

I think wat_up is confused. It's the industry which is sexist, not kshreya2002.

Originally posted by: kshreya2002

@In blue: When she started with IPL she was dating Ness Wadia. She might have intended to settle down that point. Thats why she prolly let acting take a backseat. Or perhaps acting taking a backseat wasnt intentional but other things took priority and she didnt pursue Bollywood aggressively after she started with IPL. In the meantime other younger actresses got more popular while YRF favorites Rani, Preity got sidelined. YRF who were going thru a lean patch themselves and even they started casting younger actresses like Katrina, DP and Anushka. Even their old buddies like SRK, Salman, Aamir moved on to romancing younger heroines.

Both Rani and Preity had good chemistry with Abhishek. Its a pity they havent worked with him since a while.

Hmm... that could be the case. She probably was about to settle down with Ness around that time and hence didn't pay attention to career. Now she has no rich boyfriend, no career, and at 36+, she isn't getting any younger, getting no offers, no one to support her, has to produce films for herself. I really feel bad for her. This industry is really cruel to some actresses.

Originally posted by: kshreya2002

Coming to success I disagree that Kat and Ash are the only successful actresses now. Infact I will say though Ash is always in the news she is hardly a success now. I forgot her last successful film. Among the contemporary actresses its Kat, PC, Deepika, Anushka, Kareena who are successful. But 5 years back it was Kajol, Rani, Preity and Ash who were the successful leading ladies...ten years back it was Madhuri, Juhi, Karisma. I am sure 5 years on some of the current lot will remain and rest will fade away.

It's your ACTUAL WORK that matters, where you give good performances. Hits are only to retain your popularity. And in popularity, Ash and Kat are topping almost all the charts.

And she did have 2 hits last year - Robot and Raavanan, which no other actress managed to.

@VanityGirl: Industry is extremely unkind. Look at Urmila. She was so hot when she did Rangeela. The world was at her feet. Now at best she gets to judge reality shows.