| Biswo |
Posted
on 26-Oct-02 06:31 PM
I was tired, and may be that was the reason why the photo of the young actress in Kamana's famous middle pages (the magazine called it " blow up") looked inviting to me. She was young, fresh and pulchritudinous. Furthermore, I had never heard about the actress before.
In Kathmandu, a friend of mine claimed he knew the actress. "So well that I can arrange a meeting between you two!" He boasted. The offer suddenly came, and backing down from that offer meant ,to some extent, cowardice. ("I always knew you couldn't talk to a girl" would have been his response.)
She was a teenager, hailed from Chitwan, belonging to a middle class family, her sister was running a beauty parlour. We went to where they were living, and her sister seemed a good girl. The actress looked somewhat annoyed , or at best insouciant, at our presence, and that meeting between my friend, me, the actress and her sister didn't last more than half an hour.
Back from that meeting, I was a more educated person. I figured out that the girl was very young, not really well-educated (was not even attending a college , I think) but was full of ambition. She didn't know very well about her roles in the movies she was going to play but hoped they would be great.
My college-era friend later on kept on telling me 'she was up for grab'. His remarks about her tended to be nasty and uncharitable. He analysed about her precociously developed chest and other body parts with sleazy words, and repugnant gusto.
Her role in the movie released soon after earned her rave reviews. She was regarded as a 'promising actress' in newspapers. But that optimism about her movie career soon vanished as she married with a movie producer (age: above 50) and abandoned her movie career.
I think movies, like other forms of arts, are important for our cultural enrichment. Movie industry ,however, remains at the hand of people vast majority of who fail to attract talented people, market their product nationwide(thus making everyone there underpaid), and impress remaining of us with any creative work. But the worst of all is the fact that the doyens of movie industry failed to create an environment where newcomers(esp girls) in the industry could work with dignity. It became workplace of lechers who preyed on unsuspecting girls riveted to the glamours of the industry.Shrisha Karki (May she be in peace)'s death jolted the nation when it was celebrating Dashain, and it is upto the movie people and rest of the officers now to work hard so that such incidents will not repeat in future.
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