But still my question is unanswered, can you tell me a single female character oriented hit movie by Rani Mukherjee? - Not yet!
YES,and the irony is that even an AIshwarya Rai is thought capable of carrying movies on her shoulders "INTERNATIONALLY"...Ash's provoked is her movie,and so is Umrao Jaan..And even Kareena has given stellar performances in mvies like Chameli,which was completely her movie...HEck,even Tabu,Konkona Sharma ,and Manisha koirala(lajja)have carried movies on their shoulders....Even the newcommer ayesha takia has Dor,an offbeat film....Sorry to say,but where Rani lacks is the image....Rani just couldnt pull off a mujra in Mangal Pandey๐๐ผ.....Mostly women oriented movies are either period films,which always go to Aishwarya as she has the dancing prowess and the look,or movies that are meant to be rabble rousing.....WHere Sridevi scored over Rani was in the realm of looks and dancing capabilities...Sridevi was tall,and she looked cuter than RAni,and she was a dynamite dancer....Be it a bharatnatyam(as displayed by Anju of chaalbaaz) or a western number,she just scorched the screen.....
she can,but Rani never leaves anything to chance..she does only those movies which are sureshot hits.....Whereas Sridevi experimented..Sridevi has attempted many more genres than rani has,Sridevi wouldnt do movies only with the top hero..Whereas Rani is stuck with Aditya Chopra/Karan Johar and his heroes(SRK,Saif,Abhishek),Aamir and men of their ilk......Rani would never risk it,NEVER!...I would say even priety Zinta has done a variety of roles (a la Armaan,lakshya,salaam namaste etc)...Rani lacks variety,she's more stereotyped as this "bubblegum candyfloss herione" who would never experiment...I'm afraid even Aishwarya is more versatile,as she does a Provoked,an Umrao Jaan,a very hep Dhoom and a normal movie like Guru......Rani never works on her image,and never attempts to reinvent herself..Barring Black,all her other movies have ben somewhat of the same kind.......and Rani surely has to yet deliver movies like Roop Ki Rani Chooron Ka Raja,Chaalbaaz,Khudah Gawah,Chandni,Sadma etcetera.....sadly Bunty aur Bubli cannot be compared to Roop Ki Rani
Lets look at Rani's hits....
Saathiya..It had an excellent script,and a banner like Yashraj,and excellent music
Chalte Chalte...It had SRK
Hum -Tum...Big Banner,Saif Ali Khan
Veer Zaara....Yash Chopra and SRK
B&B...Big Banner,good music,Abhishek
Black..Sanjay Leela Bhansali,Amitabh Bachchan
KANK..KJo,SRK,Abhishek,Good music
Sridevi's hits include Sadma(which if I'm not wrong is a dubbed version of a Tamil movie,and it had kamal Hassan who wasnt any superstar in Hindi),Nagina,Chaalbaaz(which had Sunny Deol,who wasnt a star or anything,he was just starting out,and it had Rajnikant,who isnt a craze in the North),Roop Ki Rani Chooron Ka Raja(both Anil Kapoor and Jackie shroff werent BIG superstars),Chandni(with Rishi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna,both run of the mill actors)....There are movies which Sridevi has carried all on her shoulders,something which rani yet has to do
Moreover Sridevi can be called a complete performer.....I still remember sridevi's dances in the songs "na jaane kahaan se aayi ho "from chaalbaaz,Hawaa Hawaaii(roop ki rani) and her dances in chandni,nagina etc.....
I would like to share something. This has nothing to do with her rating as an actress. Still I have never seen a frivolous actress like Rani off-screen. Sri and Mad were utterly professionals.
There was a football(some charity, if you guys have also seen) match some years back in Salt Lake stadium, Calcutta between the Indian cricketers(Sachin, Sourav, Rahul and and all top players) VS the Heroes of Bollywood(SRK, Salman, Akshaye, Saif, Jackie, Govinda, Sunil and other prominent heroes. It was a very funny match, SRK and Sourav were the captains, I think the cricketers scored some 6-7 or so(don't remember) goals. Dozens kha jatey, charity match tha isi liye the cricketers controlled the situation. Sourav made hat trick. In actual life the heroes are so weak compared to the cricketers, of course, for obvious reasons). Anyways, geting back to the point, Rani was the only actress present there. Itne sarey good-looking and dashing logon ke beech, I think she lost her control. She was also asked to join the prize distribution ceremony. On the stage she was literally jumping around, hugging, giggling, pinching and punching the people she knows or works with. Akshay and Govinda looked embarrassed trying to tame her down. I thought that was a bit serious part, since the ministers and other eminent figures were also present on the stage.