Do you think the new gen actresses are way too generic? - Page 3

Another reason could be the amount of plastic surgery done even before the debut. Sure, almost every actress does it at some point in their career. But doing it before they make their mark in the industry, creates a number of generic picture perfect girls comparable to an assembly line of a factory. We dohave a line up of new generation actresses who stand out from the crowd with their work and looks - like Sanya Malhotra, Pranutan Behl, Radhika Madan. But it's the factory products who get the best roles. Because the industry also wants interchangeable generic products.

Instagram has killed everything. Everyone needs to stop trying to be relatable. I don't want to relate to you! Be a star!

Originally posted by: MujheMaarjaneDo

Jitender was talking about the looks. Not acting. People find people with whom they don't interact or watch same looking.

Anyone who has seen plenty of Tara, Sara, Jahanvi, Ananya and co, will find they all have different personalities. And also looks wise, look very different. Heck even their body type is vastly different.

Yes there are things which are similar, i. e. they all haven't been good performers, rather horrendous. but than again even the likes of Priety, Rani, Kajol, Kareena, Aishwarya and so on also had forgettable starts. Actresses don't start with flying colors in India. Because it is a male oriented industry, where women need time to settle. Very few females start with a bang.. social media hype and media hype is a different ball of game, where game is attention grabbing, hence the posts and the poses in those posts are generic and similar, because if people start speaking their mind, they would start getting negative attention, and not everyone is Swara, Tapsee or especially Kangana, who will use negative attention to stay in limelight.

Sorry, I can never accept that Preity, Rani, Aishwarya, etc. started off just as bad as the disastrous lot today. I'll go far enough and say that they never set the bar as low as Janhvi or Ananya even at the lowest points of their careers. They had their fair share of duds but Preity in Kya Kehna and Sangharsh were both top notch performances in substantial roles right through the door and Aishwarya also hit the ground running and delivered BIG TIME with Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. The impact they left on people with their first few movies were undeniably far more powerful and the opportunities that followed for them afterwards made a whole lot of sense.

Have the actresses performances of recent girls been bad? Yes, it has been. If somebody says so, I don't care. Because it is truth, but when people are like, when I was young, it was better, than it is bullsh!t, because acting of top actresses in India especially during their first few years have always been either sketchy or they were not getting roles which explored their acting potential.

As for people liking them, well we can't dictate what people like.

I agree that it's a male dominated industry and women are at a disadvantage but today's actresses walk in on a pedestal before working in movies and can't deliver at all. Outside of their so called "acting" and poor dialogue delivery in equally cringeworthy movies, their personalities are so MEH.

Compare that with Ash's Nimbooda right through the door and how they used to conduct themselves in public (Rani, Preity etc for example's sake since Ash is not everyone's cup of tea), there you have the answer to what kind of mediocrity we're stuck with today. The current lot comes with a reasonably pretty face and a well-known last name -- that's about it. There is no diversity whatsoever and adding value to cinema is not their priority either. They're in it for the quick bucks and fame and it shows. A recent example of that is Janhvi's Panghat... like, what in the world was that? People are welcome to enjoy these kinds of subpar performances and movies, of course, I'm not asking anyone to stop but I'd any day prefer to watch and re-watch Nimbooda, Chand Chupa Badal Mein than ever put myself through a bucket load of crap like Khaali Peeli or Panghat.

the curiosity among the new generation is gone. we can blame these insta, social media....

we know every little details about them way before they hit the screens. how their legs look, nose looks, tummy in,out, their pictures from every angle...nothing left that would make one run to cinemas to dekho them on big screen; most of them end up being annoying than anything ...by the time they hit the screens....the chant becomes louder:' i hate her', cant stand her'

😆

only if the movie turns out good, then we catch their flicks...otherwise byebye....

older actors like rekhas, madhuris, sridevi's...exquisite, very private, hardly interviews..or blah blah ; you could only find a bit about them flipping filmfare magazines...of course if you could afford

they were simply untouchables.....and the crave for them became all time high!

the less you know the better....

btw...priyanka was almost floppy, in her early outing...flop after flop after flop.

its aitraaz that really made one notice her....

Same plastic surgeons, stylists who run after same trends, PR firms with similar tactics, and yeah... very little in talent to speak of.

I considered the possibility of it being gen gap, but I don't think so. Internet has truly made the world grow smaller. They can see almost in real-time what appeals to the public, and all of them run to copy the same tactics.

Let me give the ex of malayalam movies here - I find Rima Kallinkal, Parvathy Thiruvoth, Nazriya Nazeem, Nithya Menon, et al. very different from each other in looks, personality, and acting style. Same for Telugu/Tamil - Amala Paul, Samantha, Nayanthara, Anushka, Keerthy Suresh. These are A-listers. Take the ones doing flowerpot roles, it's hard to tell who is who because they all try to copy the Hilton/Kardashian template.

Same for BW starlets - their faces maybe different, but do the blurring thing, and I can't tell one apart from the other. But take Alia, Parineeti, and Shraddha. Alia might have raced ahead, but then and now, these ladies are different from each other. No such heavyweight has shown up in the latest batch of actresses in BW. Perhaps Tripti... remains to be seen.

Originally posted by: briahna

the curiosity among the new generation is gone. we can blame these insta, social media....

we know every little details about them way before they hit the screens. how their legs look, nose looks, tummy in,out, their pictures from every angle...nothing left that would make one run to cinemas to dekho them on big screen; most of them end up being annoying than anything ...by the time they hit the screens....the chant becomes louder:' i hate her', cant stand her'

😆

only if the movie turns out good, then we catch their flicks...otherwise byebye....

older actors like rekhas, madhuris, sridevi's...exquisite, very private, hardly interviews..or blah blah ; you could only find a bit about them flipping filmfare magazines...of course if you could afford

they were simply untouchables.....and the crave for them became all time high!

the less you know the better....

btw...priyanka was almost floppy, in her early outing...flop after flop after flop.

its aitraaz that really made one notice her....

Speaking of Priyanka, she started off with Andaaz ... a little tarty compared to other newbies at the time but the movie was very successful. Around the same time, The Hero came out with Sunny, Preity and Priyanka ... and I remember that movie was a big hit too. Their performances then might not have stood out as Rani Mukherjee in Black or Hichki but they did complete justice to their roles for what they were worth in those movies. The essence of acting was very much there unlike Sara Ali Khan in LAK or Ananya or Jahnvi who leave people cold. PC/PZ/Rani etc. also had their highs and lows but even at their lowest, they kept the essence of acting alive and weren't just going through the motions like how Janhvi looks in Dhadak, Gunjan, and in the latest Panghat song. And I'm only using Janhvi as an example, you can interchange her name with Ananya or anyone else from the current lot and my point would stay the same.

In saying that, I agree to a large extent with your point about social media exposure today. These people are insta celebrities before actors and there is no clear delineation between the two anymore. Make them stand in a corner and they might be something to look at (according to some) but as soon as they open their mouths, I want to either slap them or bang my head against a wall in frustration.

Originally posted by: Mo0nLighting

I agree that it's a male dominated industry and women are at a disadvantage but today's actresses walk in on a pedestal before working in movies and can't deliver at all. Outside of their so called "acting" and poor dialogue delivery in equally cringeworthy movies, their personalities are so MEH.

Compare that with Ash's Nimbooda right through the door and how they used to conduct themselves in public (Rani, Preity etc for example's sake since Ash is not everyone's cup of tea), there you have the answer to what kind of mediocrity we're stuck with today. The current lot comes with a reasonably pretty face and a well-known last name -- that's about it. There is no diversity whatsoever and adding value to cinema is not their priority either. They're in it for the quick bucks and fame and it shows. A recent example of that is Janhvi's Panghat... like, what in the world was that? People are welcome to enjoy these kinds of subpar performances and movies, of course, I'm not asking anyone to stop but I'd any day prefer to watch and re-watch Nimbooda, Chand Chupa Badal Mein than ever put myself through a bucket load of crap like Khaali Peeli or Panghat.

Rani, Priety, Aishwarya all started getting recognition in their 4th or 5th movie or their 3rd or 4th year . Non of the Ananya, Jhanvi, Sara or Tara had a normal second/third year due to covid era.

Plus I don't get what pedestal you are talking about? Ananya is a walking talking meme material joke, Jhanvi and Sara are massively criticized for their acting skills.

And if it is about awards recognition than, even the likes of Aish, Rani and Preity have undeserving awards in their early years.

As for conducting themselves in public, Aish was known as ice cold bitch, Rani was seen as foul mouthed brat. Only Priety was seen as bubbly happy girl, but that is something even Sara was before SSR death. So I don't get this cloud of oh it was good in our times, now it is all shit. It was always shit.

Originally posted by: MujheMaarjaneDo

Rani, Priety, Aishwarya all started getting recognition in their 4th or 5th movie or their 3rd or 4th year . Non of the Ananya, Jhanvi, Sara or Tara had a normal second/third year due to covid era.

Plus I don't get what pedestal you are talking about? Ananya is a walking talking meme material joke, Jhanvi and Sara are massively criticized for their acting skills.

And if it is about awards recognition than, even the likes of Aish, Rani and Preity have undeserving awards in their early years.

As for conducting themselves in public, Aish was known as ice cold bitch, Rani was seen as foul mouthed brat. Only Priety was seen as bubbly happy girl, but that is something even Sara was before SSR death. So I don't get this cloud of oh it was good in our times, now it is all shit. It was always shit.

@Bold: Wow, aren't you a pocketful of sunshine? 😆

While you raised some valid points in your previous post, that remark about everyone complaining about today's actors just because they're old struck me as very sweeping and dismissive, so I quoted you to object to that. Wasn't just trying to pick a fight randomly in case that's what it came across as.😆 Anyone who's been watching bollywood movies since the SRK/Khan era or before can see a noticeable change in the standard and shift in all kinds of paradigm from then to now. I can sit here and list out all the actresses and their career graphs and personalities to make side by side comparisons but who has the time for that and more importantly, who gives enough damn, right? So I gave you a rough picture. I don't think I can elaborate or add more to what I already said in my previous post in that regard.

I think we can agree that Ananya, Sara, Tara, etc. aren't exactly known for performance oriented roles, something we had much more of before. I think we can also agree that social media gives these actors a lot more coverage and people already know them and worship the ground they walk on before they even start working in movies. That's the pedestal I was talking about. Since they do get trashed for bad performances too, I'll grant that the pedestal they are put on due to social media exposure and paid promotion shows can be both a blessing and a curse for them, especially when they can't live up to the hype.

Originally posted by: bollyqueen0

Instagram has killed everything. Everyone needs to stop trying to be relatable. I don't want to relate to you! Be a star!

That’s why i quit it over a year ago 😂

All of them try to ape the kardashian jenners. Hence the personality and intellect of a garbage bag.