Mithun Chakraborty roles unmatched

Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2007 at at 09:42 by rk rishikesh sinha  


The hero remains decent, sober, up-right, straight, honest and very poor [add all positive adjectives] person in the first part of the movie, in contrast in the second part he becomes a don with a million-dollar style statement, later he takes revenge against of all those villains who helped him to increase his status, had been the skeleton concept, perhaps, of all movies in the early 80’s.

And one hero who fits into this bill was, non other than Mithun Chakrabarty, our Mithunda.

We have traversed a long and serpentine road. No [ Kadapi nahin]. The truth is that we have travelled hundreds light years (!!)[distance travelled by light in one year = I light year], in the way we have started seeing our bollywood heroes, the transition of roles they have donned from the early 80’s to the present day.


In the early 80’s, considered to be the heydays of our Mithun Chakrobarty acting career in bollywood, the heroes used to play the role of a street hawker, our neighbouring mechanic in the half part of the movie, and in the second part becoming a millionaire, was the bottomline of all the stories.

And Mithunda’s movies were the perfect example of this transition. It is understood, at the end of the movie, Mithunda assassinates, murders those who have been instrumental in increasing the stature of his cinematic role. That was my idol Mithunda’s movies story plot. And without much involving our mind, mental conscience we used to enjoy the mechanic, hawker [in Disco Dancer] role played by him.

And now suppose, for god sake, if we had to see the present day hero like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar in the role what Mithunda played in his time. What would be 4- Khan’s and Kumar’s reaction? A complete no-no. The same would be the public’s reaction, they will not be able to digest their heroes being shown in the last element of the long economic chain.

It is true; movies are the mirrors of the society. Mithunda’s movies show the persisting society of that time, which had been very much black and white in colour, India was still being under the inspector/ licensee raj, IT non existent, the so-called boom was nowhere in the economy. Consequently, the heroes were either ending up their role as a poor man or son of a super rich father. A case in point, Shah Rukh Khan’s role in his perhaps all movies starting from Deewana where he played the role of love stricken boy, remember his role in Dilwale Dilhaniya Le Jayenger, he played the role of a son of a NRI.

Time has indeed changed, Mithunda’s role cannot be relived and rejuvenated.

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Hot n Sexy Rakhi Sawant "back" is back

Posted On at at 02:48 by rk rishikesh sinha  

She is oomph of many, and for some the most funniest celebrity ever visible in the Indian film industry. Yes, she is Rakhi Sawant of bollywood, more so of the tinsel world of television in the recent times. She was visible today again on “Breaking News” item of a television news channel. Reason. Wardrobe malfunction.

The news channel ran the so called wardrobe malfunction news item repeatedly in the prime time. I was laughing on the news channel of running this item. There were, obviously, many reasons for which I was laughing and amusing myself on the often repeated bare back footage of Rakhi Sawant.

First, the program in which sexy Rakhi Sawant along with her boyfriend were dancing was not the LIVE show, so there was no point showing the item in the prime time. The program that we all have watched comes after it had gone under the scissor of a video editor. So, there was no point in showing a program[news]of the edited program. How a program which has been edited can become the news? Only God, and of course, the director of the show knows and has the answer.

Secondly, the show in which the hot and sexy Rakhi Sawant was performing, after the wardrobe malfunction it could have been shoot again. But it was not done! She completed the song as it should have been done. The director of the show did not stop the camera rolling. Obviously, the director wanted the cheap media mileage by trampling upon the respect of a media savvy Rakhi Sawant.

Whatever may be the reason, whether it was pre-meditated, planned act to get media space or it was really a news to their standard, the only fact coming crystal clear was that the news was indeed of bad taste. At the end I could say Rakhi Sawant is the female “Shah Rukh Khan” among the actresses in bollywood.

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