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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Fantastic
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Thank you, Lakshmi!
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Brilliant end. I thought it is RK story, just fits but didn’t expect the end. Nice one, dear.
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It is RK, but I made up the end 🙂 I’ve heard actresses used to dress in white for an audition with RK. It must be a tough job to give up one’s own personality to fit into a director’s imagination.
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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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Nostalgia 🙂 Devyani Chaubal is dead now.
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RK would always made his heroins touch and kiss men’feet
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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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🙂 they have an excuse for that ‘ we are just showing what is going on in the society…’
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A terrific tale with a brilliant final line. I like it.
Here’s my story!
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Thank you, Keith!
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Wow!! Fantastic, Reena!!!
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Thank you, Donna!
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Brilliantly written, Reena.
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Thanks so much, Violet!
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Great take. I immediately thought of Audrey Hepburn for some reason but went on another tack …
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Thank you, Graham!
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