Originally posted by: ShadowKisses
I wasn't trying to change your opinion. Merely giving you an opposite perspective. Now, if you chose to gather some wisdom from it, none of my business.
How is maintaining silence putting an "act" for the media? If she speaks, she's bad. If she doesn't, she's bad. It's a double-edged sword.
Y'know, she is famous in the West. Not as much as Jolie but compared to many of the other actors working in Bollywood, she is. Will Smith and Daniel Radcliffe citing her as their favourite actress clearly shows that. She refused at least two movies with Will Smith - THE most bankable star in Hollywood, if the overwhelming success of his mediocre Hancock is anything to go by. If that doesn't show her popularity, then I rest my case for the sake of my sanity. And these offers had absolutely nothing to do with the Bachchans. Perhaps her image - or rather, the way she is portrayed - in the indian media has improved after her marriage but what does that show about Aishwarya? It only demonstrates the cheap thinking of the media personel who praise married actresses (Karishma, for example, was officially renamed "Saint Karishma" after her marriage) and degrade unmarried ones (ex. Deepika is newest gold-digger in town or something to that effect).
She DID make her career even if you chose to disregard it. The actresses who started their career at nearly the same time as her aren't getting prominent roles wheras she still gets some of the best roles. Not to mention that she's labelled as 'plastic' and 'ice maiden' but till date, she has worked with some of the best directors, endorsed some great products and been the brand ambassador for international brands. That in and of itself is a huge achievement in an industry that treats women with the shorter end of the stick.
HDDCS was a success due to the multi-starrer cast and the SLB production house which was considered very prestigious at the time. To give Salman the entire credit for its success is incredulous at best. Merely because none of her films were classified "hits" is no reason to claim she was unsuccessful. Between the duration of HDDCS and Dhoom, she did churn out strong performances in Taal (which was definitely a hit), Raincoat, Choker Bali, Kandukondain Kandukondain, HDAPH (if the FF nomination is anything to go by) and Umrao Jaan. Funny how you forgot to mention those.
Regarding the italics - If you are going to make a claim, you should at least support it. It's rather baseless to say she got "support from her ex and current beaus" when you have absolutely no facts to back that claim.
this is my fourth time responsding to this loooooooong Essay , hopefully my computer won't go crazy on me again
Ok so first thing Aish is fake , and that's the vibe i get from all her interviews. Watch any of the Rani, Preity , Kajol or Kareena's interviews and difference can be easily spotted. For instance, when kareena came on KWK..she apologized to him on national TV for rejecting KhN just for money..now that's real to me.when Aish speaks, everything is diplomatic and plastic. I mean come on lady, You can not talk/act like this all the time as if u are still standing on Ms.World Pagent!
Second, hollywood offers and actors talking about her. Now when Will smith comes to india, he gets asked questions about bollywood actors, and he has to name someone . so he names her caz she is the only one out of all the actors who tried to make career in hollywood. Otherwise, i never see him talking about her to hollywood press. He could care least about her! If one thinks that she is getting those hollywood offers caz of her acting talent, then just read the reviews of all her flop hollywood movies..and u can see how much they appreciate her "talent"
As for her giving hits after Devdas and HDDCS, ya she gave Taal ( i forgot about that one ) but that's about it..all the other ones after that which u named were BIG FAT FLOPS
and bollywood runs on hits, if actress is giving flops..that means her career is over. And Abhisek himself has said that he "RECOMMeded " Aish for Guru !
In her big ten years career, she barely gave five hits HDDCS, Taal, GURU, dhoom and JA
Devdas was just average...and all other movies FLOPs
so i don't know how she is being put in top ..Rani gave many many many more HITS than her,and has been appriciated in each of her movies.
Lastly, i can't type any more and not have energy to read/write any more eassys. I said everything i had to say. This topic was about why one doesn't like aish.. and i gave my reasons! though i want to make it clear that i don't hate her..that's too strong of a feeling!
Chao😛
Edited by piya_y116 - 15 years ago
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