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Which actress era do you like more?
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70's.
Rekha - Zeenat Aman - Parveen Babi
The era of INDIA's Greatest Actress and Biggest Lady Megastar, SRIDEVIJI ❤️😍🥳
From the options you gave, I like Madhuri, Sridevi, Juhi, Manisha era the most and Juhi was my fav actress as a kid.
I like Kajol, Karishma, Raveena, Shilpa, Sonali, Rani, Preity era too.
But my most fav era actresses are ones from 70s and early 80s.
Hema, Rekha, Zeenat, Shabana, Smita, Neetu, Parveen etc totally changed face of heroine and female stardom in Indian cinema. In fact they did even more progressive roles than ones in 90s (which rather regressed IMO). They did all sorts of characters from pick pocket, detective, cop, judge, lawyer to queen, prostitute etc. They were not just looking for marriage or some dream man but also equally into making plans or defending self, family or taking revenge, fighting villains. Often overshadowed heroes and had scripts written for them. Not just dancing in college fests or ladies sangeets. Scenes of Hema, Sridevi, Rekha beating the crap out of villains and rapists are iconic. I still have screen grabs of their images holding revolver, rifle or hunter in their hands.
Before that heroines had very little to do in films except play glam doll or homely bahu or a vamp or spoilt brat or a dukhiyaari abla naari.
Only from 70s it all changed and heroine had more substantial lines, scenes, dialogues and matched heroes shoulder to shoulder doing everything from dance to horse riding, riding bikes or shooting down villains. 70s also began to show more of working women be it women in offices or women working as vegetable vendors or dhaba owners. Something that was seen less earlier and working women almost disappeared in 90s films...
70s heroines were complete package and could be beauty queens, sexy, cute, play rich or poor, urban or rural characters with aplomb unlike actresses who came post 80s. Post mid 80s we hardly had actresses who could play both urban and rural characters with equal perfection and success. Hardly anyone like Hema who was giving hits and memorable roles both as Basanti and as Sheetal. I think Madhuri, Juhi, Karishma and Sridevi are the last ones who managed to play rural and urban characters alike and pulled off success.
Actresses since 90s and especially post 2000s have become more and more limited in terms of their scope and roles. You rarely saw working or professional women in 90s commercial films, you have actresses who are stereotyped as per their speciality- someone does mainly NRI roles, someone does mainly rich girl roles, someone does mainly historical or period films, someone does mostly urban roles or someone does mainly rural or urban poor roles, someone does only homely roles or someone does mainly so called bold roles.
Even today's sex symbol heroines lack class and effortless sex appeal that Zeenat and Parveen had or young Simi Garewal had. In terms of talent and power packed performances, Smita Patil could have given likes of Vidya Balan a run for her money any day. Shabana easily and successfully did both commercial and art films in 70s and 80s. A rare feat. She gave hits like Amar Akbar Anthony and Lahu ke do rang and also classic pathbreaking art films like Arth, Nishant etc.
We had films like Seeta aur Geeta and Chaalbaaz earlier and top male stars of that time playing sidekick to Hema and Sridevi- something which is unthinkable and unseen now.
Films and roles then were bold especially for a society where people still do not like girls and women talking too much or arguing or answering back. The older films also took up difficult issues like dowry deaths, human trafficking, rape, domestic violence, inability of husbands and in laws to handle career success of wife/DIL, ego issues, difficulty balancing career ambitions and home/family etc., in even typical entertainer films unlike today's films where such issues are considered serious and hardly included in an entertainer but repackaged in serious 'message films'.
70s also gave us blockbusters with goddesses and no typical hero in form of success of Jai Santoshi Ma and the most enduring successful formula for female characters- icchadhari nagin. Reena Roy's Naagin was a major success and its success was repeated with even bigger hits like Nagina with Sridevi. Nagin is such a popular cultural trope that it gained lot of success on TV too.
Heroines of 70s had much more voice compared to scared characters of 90s blockbusters where heroine is held back by father and begging to unite with man she loves or heroine is begging her husband to give her baby back and accept her back as well. Just cannot compare feisty stuff of 70s with regressive blockbusters of 90s.
1970s stuff is so entertaining that it is still relevant and popular on TV, DVD and people still attempt to remake that stuff. The roles in 70s laid foundation for strong, varied roles that actresses did later in 80s or post 80s decades.
70s also had good roles for older actors. Aandhi is one such example.
There is a reason why actors, films, roles, dialogues of that era are still popular or seen as inspiration. 70s totally changed Bollywood and Indian cinema, pop culture in general. Iconoclast and pathbreaking stuff.
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