I agree with you whole heartedly MrsAckles. The Star kids are exactly like the character played by the reincarnated SRK in Om Shanti Om. It is unfortunate that in Bollywood the Star kids, even those with very little talent can do no wrong. It is worse that the new kids who come from all other walks of life, and who in reality are far better actors are frequently belittled and criticized for every darn thing by the likes of the pseudo intellectual fans like us.
I have been very impressed with Kangana Ranaut from her debut film Gangster. She did not have the Bollywood Blue Blood, or some sugar daddy like SLB to give her a dream launch or a Big Maha Bollywood Dad or Mom to send her to some acting institute in the U.S. Yet her performances have been far superior to that of any of the Star kids in their debut films and after, which include the likes of Kareena, Abhishek, Saif, Ranbir, Sonam and what have you.
Sure Kangana is from a small town in U.P. Sure she comes from a middle class family. Sure she wasn't exposed to or groomed in the "Metropolitan sophistication" of the Mumbai born Designer Star kids. Sure she has no fashion sense. Yet she has proved to be a far better actor right out of the gate from her very first movie. Having watched the various stages of the evolution of Bollywood first hand, all I can say is this young lady is the modern day Nutan and Smita Patil rolled in one. Neither of them ever cared to be any style ICON or what have you. They were simple both on and off the screen, yet gave memorable and sensitive performance the likes of which Bollywood will probably never see.
I wish the pseudo intellectual fans like us realize that when the history of Bollywood is recorded the actors will be remembered for the memorable roles they played; and not for how they dressed, or their sex appeal, or their insatiable appetite to be on Page 3, nor their game of revolving beds. Very few of these Star kids in Bollywood will ever amount to anything substantive. They are here today and will be gone and forgotten tomorrow.
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