Rani Mukherji was on TV last night, insisting that she wasn’t getting married. “I don’t know why journalists keep marrying me off,” she said irritatedly. “I’m NOT getting married!”
The other day, I read an interview with Kareena Kapoor where she too insisted that she wasn’t planning to get married for the next few years. Preity Zinta also says she’s tired of telling people that she is not going to get married anytime soon.
And these are just three actresses – there are many others, all going equally blue in the face denying shaadi rumours.
The subtext seems to be this: ‘If people think I’m going to get married, I won’t have any film offers. Producers will shy away from me. They’ll get scared that if I get married, I might get pregnant and then their film will suffer. Also, Indian film audiences like their film heroines to be unmarried. No one likes married heroines.’
(Remember how Juhi Chawla never let on that she had got married? Suddenly one day I heard she had a child and I kept wondering, “Lekin shaadi kab hui?”)
Why is getting married considered to be professional hara-kiri in Bollywood? I mean, there have been/there are enough actresses who played/are playing lead roles despite having taken the plunge. Sharmila Tagore, Saira Banu, Hema Malini… Today, there’s Aishwarya Rai.
I find the whole notion extremely bizarre.
Nobody I know has ever said, “Hey, I don’t want to see this film because so-and-so actress in the film is married in real life!” If you are an absolutely lunatic fan of a particular actress and she gets married, you might say, “He didn’t deserve her!” or something equally moronic, but are you going to boycott her movies? (Or would she really have lost her appeal?)
About this pregnancy thing, well, surely it’s in the hands of the actress concerned as to when she decides to have a baby.
So what’s the fuss about? But since all actresses seem to react in a similar way, maybe there’s some truth to their fears. Is it that even though they might get roles post-marriage, it definitely marks the beginning of a slow fade-out?
Any explanations/theories, anyone?
I don't know a lot about Bollywood World,but as you said,the actresses's fear of getting married has to have any reason.I think that the audience may not care so much about them getting married,but the film producers and the studios...well,they must do or say something that makes this whole story makes sense.The most important things happens on the 'subworld'!
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