Alia's performance in gangubai is a big disappointment - Page 2

For those interested in numbers:

India Net Collection ₹ 132.01 Cr // Worldwide Collection ₹ 211.5 Cr (Overseas Collection ₹ 56 Cr + India Gross Collection ₹ 155.5 Cr)

Gangubai Kathiawadi Budget: ₹ 180 Cr * Approx

Considered by whom ? Banned perspectives

Originally posted by: forza

huma Qureshi would have been the better choice

Role was intended for Priyanka or Vidya I think. Some also say Kangana was considered. I'm glad Priyanka didn't do it. She needs to stay irrelevant lol.

Originally posted by: Clochette

bold: I certainly did not...after Kalank another movie where I saw her performance as 'conscious acting'... (it also was a let-down to me)

Strange, Kalank was one of the roles where she clicked for me. I think she shines in Dharma movies, namely Kalank and RARKPK. But maybe it's because I'm partial to Dharma movies. She looked her best in both those movies. Gully Boy was her other movie I thought she was best in but that wasn't Dharma (although I always forget since Karan was promoting that film everywhere).

No problem if you got another impression than I got... that's what I like with movies - the individual perception

Her performance in Gangu isn't even close to her legendary performance in RockyRani, where she played a Bengali woman with a gujrati accent.. I mean can you imagine the amount of dedication it needed for her to achieve it? 😵

Originally posted by: MiVida_Messi

Her performance in Gangu isn't even close to her legendary performance in RockyRani, where she played a Bengali woman with a gujrati accent.. I mean can you imagine the amount of dedication it needed for her to achieve it? 😵

I don't live in India so accents bother me little. Alia didn't look Bengali or sound it but I felt she encompassed Rani in every other way. For all the flack Karan gets, he's written some of the best roles in the industry for women, such as both Anjalis, Naina Catherine Kapur, Maya Talwar, and Rani Chatterjee. I think Rani was Alia's best role, in terms of acting, content and looks. She holds her own against Ranveer by matching his energy and chemistry. And I liked how Rani's character was so emancipated and feminist. She could value family while questioning regressive traditions and not being afraid to break those principles for something more egalitarian.

I think another thing I liked about the Rani character was that she was sexually emancipated. She wasn't the typical BW heroine who is a virgin while the male character gets to have multiple relationships (looking at Ram-Leela, where I didn't like how Ranveer's character has been around while Leela character never gets to have sex once, not even a wedding night). Rani's character has not only had sex before meeting Rocky but she's not ashamed of hiding her past relationships either. She comes onto Rocky first and is the one who starts off less emotionally invested and more in for the physical thrill of it. It felt like one of the rare cases in a mainstream BW movie where the female lead is allowed to enjoy sex and be so forward about it, a true equal of the male.