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Anaarkali Of Aarah promises to be an interesting watch; we are certainly thrilled that movies revolving around the lead female actor are no longer unusual.
You’ve seen her in Guzaarish, you’ve seen her in Tanu Weds Manu, you’ve seen her in Raanjhana; you must’ve heard of her regarding Listen…Amaya, Macchli Jal ki Rani Hai and Nil Battey Sannata.
Now we will get to see her as an erotic performer, a singer who sings double-meaning songs, and a dancer with ‘oopmh’ value in the upcoming Hindi feature film, Anarkali of Arrah. Wonder who I am talking about? Swara Bhaskar!
Known for her offbeat roles and superb acting skills, Swara Bhaskar’s next venture, in which she appears as the female lead, is about a performer from Aarah, Bihar, who refuses the sexual advances of a minister while performing on stage, and is publicly harassed and beaten up for it. The film is based on a true story and has been written and directed by Avinash Das.
Starting from rather small and supporting roles in some of the aforementioned movies, Swara has reached a point in her career where there are fans like me ready to watch a movie due to her presence in it. The first look of this movie, released on Monday, 20the Feburary, 2107 and the trailer, published three days later have already garnered much attention and applause from film critics, viewers and other celebreties as well as film directors. Slated to be released on the 24th of March, 2017, its trailer has already become one of the top fifty trending videos on YouTube as of now.
Needless to say, amidst all praises, some ‘critics’ are finding the whole concept of this film rather unpalatable. Actor-filmmaker-turned-self-proclaimed critic, Kamal Rashid Khan, took to Twitter after the release of the first look of the film by Bollywood director, Karan Johar, and called it a ‘disaster’.
Swara being Swara, retaliated in a strong and assertive, yet polite way and thanked KRK for his compliment-like ‘gaali’ and ‘unasked filth’ that he had spewn on the movie.
The kind of reaction received from KRK and such folks for such a movie which explores issues such as female performers and their lives and challenges – rarely covered by Bollywood, does call for a powerful response, in the words of Anarkali of Arrah, i.e., Swara herself, “Haathi chale bazaar, Kutte bhauken bazaar!” (When the elephant walks, the dogs will bark!)
Nevertheless, I hope that actually watching the movie will help disabuse the minds of such critics as to what cinema is about!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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