Thick plot

Posted on by Reena Saxena

The filmmaker’s obsession with women wearing white was well known.

The blockbusters he produced would often show a woman in white, soaked to the skin under a waterfall or shower. The scene was always picture perfect, with intense colors of mountains and sky floating on the screen, as a backdrop to female sensuousness.

Tabloids would go berserk with bytes from his wife – how he fell for her when he saw her first- dressed in white on a social occasion. The female lead of the movie would smile from a distance, knowing how his love often transgressed social and legal boundaries.

This girl is different. The intensity in her eyes often makes him forget the director’s lines. There is a strange sense of familiarity, and yet he feels haunted by dark secrets.

“Would you like to act in my next film?”

“I’m not an actress.”

“I’ve taught many girls how to act. You will be the next sensation of the film industry.”

“Just as my mother was…. and then she got lost in the big, wide world, because there was no place in yours. Do you remember?”

HIS daughter …. this was a plot the master storyteller had never faced before.

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17 thoughts on “Thick plot”

      1. Money talks everywhere and in olden age you won’t get the role otherwise. So much read but how much to believe? Or was for film promotion. Used to read Devyani Chhaubaal a lot in my young age, gosipy, witty, funny, juicy all in one but stopped after sometime.

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        1. You are as appalled as I am 🙂 It was Shabana who first refused to carry the man’s shoes for a shot. BTW, there is no feminism in the film industry as yet, except for the fake Vikas Bahl and Kangana Ranaut dramas.

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