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How would Amana Shareef square a circle in Bollywood filmy culture?

Intro: A reviewer wrote, I quote: “The material in some of the Indian movies is so filthy that they are not suitable to watch with the family; actresses always wear western dresses revealing boobs and legs which has become a norm in Indian filmy society. It is a great challenge for Aamna Shariff to work in such a filthy culture.”

Reply: Not all the Bollywood culture is filthy; there are fine artists out there who are the main pillars of the Bollywood and who produce good quality decent movies for our entertainment; ‘Gajinj’, ‘Three Idiots’ and ‘My Name Is Khan’ are the three latest movies which exhibit the fineness of their artwork. We should not let the vulgar work of a few third rate unheard actors overshadow the decent work of the talented and famous artists of Bollywood. Nevertheless, like everything else in this world, Bollywood has good aspects as well as bad aspects in its cultural make up; I give below an analysis of those cultural aspects of Bollywood, which are giving grief to some die-hard fans of Amana Shareef.

Western dress culture of actresses in Bollywood: No doubt that it has become a trend in Bollywood that actresses wear western dresses that let them reveal the cleavages of their boobs and legs as far and wide as they want to and with modern Super Duper jeans they can even exhibit their lingerie and reveal the cleavage of their bums if they wish to go an extra mile towards adopting the western vulgarity of the day. Many Bollywood actresses wear western dresses openly in a provocative manner and have no qualms about it. Amana Shareef has to decide where would she position herself and how far she would go to square a circle in the Bollywood dress culture.

Amana Shariff hasn’t joined the camp of the baddies; however, she has a sexy body structure and terrific sex and glamour appeal which she is good at displaying it, and she does so with  whether she wears an Indian dress or she wears a western dress and she is a far greater killer than a sickly looking actress painted all over with buckets of makeup trying to reveal herself with her body parts on display.

Hideous dance culture in Bollywood movies: In movie Race, Katrina Kaif is made to wear “Nighty” (what a joke?) and made to dance and sing “Kiss me, Touch me,” and Indians are falling all over her because she looks sexy to them; in reality she looks awful and off-putting and, I am sure, even she herself knows it too but she is doing it because she is getting paid for it. I am told that there are scenes worse than this in some of the other Bollywood movies. Then you have these item songs with item girls swinging their As and Bs wearing next to nothing on their bodies.

Hygienic scripts and level playing field: Above is the imagery of the culture of the Bollywood that Amana Shareef has to compete with in order to survive in it. However, not all the movie scripts demand such imagery and Amana should be able to pick and choose the hygienic scripts like those of Kismat Konnection, Wanted, Gajini, My Name is Khan and many more.

Bad luck with Amana has been that she never had a good script, a popular actor and a capable director so far; in fact Amana Shareef is not in the domain of the level-plying field yet. However, many professional reviewers have spoken highly of the future prospects of Amana in Bollywood.

Salaam Namastay.
 

[Joshi]

Hi Smma Malik,
I like your analysis of the Bollywood culture. But I can't see anything wrong with Katrina Kaif singing "Kiss me, Kiss me; Touch me, touch me" song. It is a good song and katrina is one of my favourite actress.

Salaam Namastay
 

[Seema]

Hi Joshi,
Thank you for your reply #1. I apologise if I have upset you by quoting a song and visual of Katrina Kaif in my article. I have nothing against your favourite star Katrina or against the song; in fact I sing this song myself in my bathroom (when my husband is not around) to get a kick out of it. In my article I responded to a reviewer lady who said, “Material in some of the Indian movies is so filthy that they are not suitable to watch with the family.” Let’s see below how this lady visualizes Katrina Kaif’s scene in the movie “Race”.

Katrina is wearing a Nighty and is lying down at the edge of a swimming pool (women wear Nighties in bed rooms not in swimming pools; it is a joke on the filmmakers!) with her body and bum positioned in a suggestive pose normally found in porn videos, and singing “Kiss Me; Touch me; (use your imagination and add a 4-letter word here)”; this all adds up to nothing less than an erotic scene in which Katrina is inviting a man saying “I am feely randy, come make love to me.”

A family with young children, whose imaginations might run faster than their parents, would not like to see a movie with such a vulgar scene in it. This is the filthy material the lady is complaining about and I am trying to agree with her before I disagree with her that not all Bollywood movies have such material in them. Perhaps the text I used in the article isn’t descriptive enough to get this message across to you and other readers. I apologise for it.

In the west we are used to having a clear warning to tell parents that a given movie is unsuitable for kids under certain age; in India however, I am not sure about it.

Salaam Namastay
 

[Seema]

Intro: A lady wrote a review I quote: “You compared Aamna Shariff as a sexy glamorous looking lady with other Bollywood actresses as sickly looking painted with buckets of make up all over… Aren’t you generalising your verdict here. I am fan of Aamna Shariff and I am fan of Bollywood movies.”

Reply: Sometime we cannot state a fact without stating the other facts, which make up the subject matter and if the subject matter gets controversial then we generalize our verdict in order to gloss over our view. It is a customary practice, everyone does it, I have done it and it is politically correct to do it. I can’t see any problem here.
 
I gave a comparative view of Amana Shareef with other actresses on the basis of the knowledge I got from an Indian friend of ours who is an expert on Bollywood matters and who had an opportunity of having a close look at most of the Bollywood celebrities. He says, his wife says, my husband says and I say that the fact is that God has “designed” some of us in His prime quality time and He has “made” some of us in His spare time. I am not going to pass judgement on God’s system of wisdom here; I would like to live with the reality as I see it in real life. Amana Shareef is a pretty and glamorous lady and there are no two ways about it.

I could take the make up off Amana Shareef and you take the make up off most of the actresses of Bollywood and let us see who shines and glitters more than the most. Amana Shareef might not glitter in somebody else’s eyes but she does in our eyes. Amana is not only a Bollywood actress, she is also a fine lady with fine taste for clothes; she appeals to us and we adore her.

When I compared Amana Shareef with other actresses, it is logical to assume that I am not including those well-established top of the pop best actresses like Ash Roy who is the top class actress of Bollywood and there is no one out there to excel her. However, It is nice to know that some beauty comparators have placed Amana Shareef next to Ash Roy and professional reviewers have reviewed that Amana is a possible threat to the biggies of the Bollywood, MaashahAllah. It is music to my ears and I love to believe them.

Salaam Namastay