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Actor Keerthy Suresh won the most coveted National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in Mahanati. Is there finally a new wave of Indian cinema?
Actor Keerthy Suresh won the most coveted National Film Award 2019 for Best Actress for her role in Mahanati. Is there finally a new wave of Indian cinema?
Actor Keerthy Suresh saw her most precious win at the 66th National Film Awards for her role in the movie Mahanati. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of actress Savitri in the movie.
The 26-year old actor is known for her roles in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu cinemas.
Since the beginning, Indian movies are known for the dramatic element they hold. Drama with a tinge of comedy and action sequences were the perfect ingredients to hold the attention of movie-goers.
However, it is time for us to shun the extremely dramatic element and look forward to a change that is already taking place.
The term ‘superstar’ is usually associated with men. The portrayal of men has forever overpowered the female characters despite there being some extremely powerful performances by women.
Female characters, like those of a mother or a wife, the ones who hold quite an important role in a family, are reduced to screen appearances. These are used only to enhance and support the hero of the movie.
The time has come when we finally can see a female character who is crucial to the story of the movie. We finally have women who are the title characters in movies!
Keerthy deserves a round of applause for her careful portrayal of the legendary actress Savitri in the Telugu movie Mahanati.
Given the nuances of a biopic, there were several occasions where it could have been overdone; however, Keerthy pulled off the role with such elegance and grace.
More power to the many female leads yet to come!
Picture credits: Screenshot from the movie
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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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