Certain performances of 2006 are going completely un-noticed
(No Ratings Yet)Certain performances of 2006 are going completely unnoticed in the award season. Kher, Konkana Sen Sharma, Nana Pathekar, John Abraham, Ajay Devgan, Ranveer Shorey, Bomain Irani, Rahul Bose etc are not even finding a mention in the list of nominations for some awards.
Though much has been done to bridge the artificial divide between star and actor, a lot is needed. About time the industry started to appreciate the actors who are not necessarily glamorous stars. For instance, anywhere else in the world, actors like Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri would have been major stars.
In Hollywood, guys who look like Joe Pesci and Danny DeVito are stars. Here a Rajpal Yadav still runs the risk of ending up playing silly comic roles, and Raghuvir Yadav may get typecast as the village idiot.
So a non-actor like Fardeen Khan keeps getting films, and if actresses like Urmila Matondkar or Kareena Kapoor do one scene well in a film, they get best actress nominations.
Since top actresses like Aishwarya Rai and Kareena are now willing to experiment with roles (admittedly when their opportunities in commercial cinema have reduced due to the advent of newer faces), even parallel cinema makers do not want to cast less well-known but more talented actors like Nandita Das or Tabu.
The industry has no place for Seema Biswas except in mother roles, and Nirmal Pandey was forced to play caricature villains. Ashish Vidyarthi just gets to play very routine negative roles, and Manoj Bajpai failed when he insisted on playing the romantic lead.
Unconventional-looking talented actors are trying to break the mould but they are not even called upon to use a great range of emotions, use their intelligence, vary their appearance and voice or dig deep into experience or do detailed research. Here is hoping year 2007 will bring the change that is so badly needed.
— IANS
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