गोरे रंग
पे ना इतना गुमान
कर…
गोरा रंग
दो दिन में
ढल जायेगा…
This song from the 1974 movie Roti is reminiscence of the
fact that the shell life of an actress is much less as compared to the peer
actors. There were times, when if an actress got married, she was never offered any lead role and after some years she will be offered the role of a Mother and Mother-in-Law. With the passage of time, this mentality has changed
and these days even married actresses like Vidya Balan, Kareena Kapoor, Kajol are inspiring script writers to offer them lead heroine roles and write exclusively for them.
However, in this article, neither are we going to talk about
women empowerment in Hindi movie industry nor are we going to list down 10
career defining roles for Hindi Movie Actress. In every industry, there are
a few people who come and create some hype and hoopla around themselves and encash it with the momentary fame. Today we will take a dig at 5 such actress
of 80s and 90s who entered the silver screen with a bang and created lot of stir with their sensuousness
and left the scene. Here we are going to have a look at some actresses who took over the industry with a storm in their initial phase but could never sustain the momentum and finally got phased out in future, despite being associated with quite a lot of blockbusters. For our list, we are not considering present actress as we are an optimistic bunch of fellows and we believe present day actress might learn from these actress and would like to prevent the same fate. So, brace yourself to dive into this unintentional dark era of 80s and 90s and Hold your Guns while reading the article.
P.S. The following article contains some 18+ content and Reader's Discretion is advised.
#5:
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| Shilpa Shirodkar |
ओ जानेमन चेहरा तेरा
जादू कोई जादू
देखा है मैंने तेरी नज़र में,
तेरी जिगर में, कोई जादू
She banged on to the silver screen in 1989 with the movie
Bhrashtachar. The movie had Prabhu Ji
and Rekha in lead roles. Mind it, Rajnikanth had an special appearance in the
movie. She played the role of a blind girl and her moment of fame was the rape scene. The
director has close to 4 minute shot of Shilpa Shirodkar's bare legs, breasts and
the oomphs and the aahs to cater to the front-bencher’s orgasm.
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| Vertical Panorama... |
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| The 360 degree panorama... |
Needless to say, Anupam Kher is obviously successful in his
attempts as our makers in late 80s are helpless in front of a lecherous villain
and their pen often succumb to the demands of the villain(read: distributors who often demanded a sex scene in the movies during the late 80s and 90s, but that's a different story and deserves a standalone article).
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| Ha ha ha... Ab tumhe kaun bachaayegaa.... |
Her next sultry performance was seen in Rakesh Roshan’s
Kishan Kanhaiyaa, where she tried to do a Mandakini act. Of-course the act
was well received by the people for whom it was meant for.
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| The wet water sequence. |
Next was this song, where she seduced Jackie Shroff in the
movie Dil Hi To Hai. The song is unintentionally funny. Yes, she undresses herself so that her husband makes love
to her. [Somebody, please kill me…]
One can never be termed as sexy actress if not performed in
a rain song.
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| Hmmm.. Expressive Dance. |
She was often called as Rekha Number 2.
After some time, she bid adieu to the silver screen [Thank God] and while writing this article, I found her latest image as this:
After some time, she bid adieu to the silver screen [Thank God] and while writing this article, I found her latest image as this:
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| Sachchi me.. Ye hi hai Shilpa Shirodkar.. No Photoshop Warp Tool was used to create this image. |
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#4:
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| Sheeba |
थोड़ा थोड़ा प्यार
थोड़ा तकरार
अगर ना हो प्यार में तो
मज़ा नहीं आता
She is one actress from the 90s who enjoyed her moment of
fame by her seducing art in the pre-naughty america times in Hindi Movies.It was tough to trace her debut movie but according to IMDB her first movie was Adisaya Piravi which had Rajnikanth in the lead(I have no fucking clue!!). She was then seen in the 1991 movie Naachnewaale Gaanewaale a movie remembered for Kadar Khan and Shakti Kapoor's camaraderie and Sukhwinder Singh's song before Dil Se made him a household name.
Obviously her moment of fame was the movie with the then upcoming star
Salman Khan in the big budget movie Suryavanshi.
The movie bombed at the box-office and till now there had
been divided opinions among people on this movie (Some people claim that this
was way ahead of its time and was made at a time when such movies were a rarity
in Bollywood), one thing was clear that it was the other actress Amrita Singh
who won the accolades for the movie and Sheeba’s fame was short-lived.
She was next seen in Mr. Bond, a C-grade rip off of James
Bond starring our Akki and Pankaj Dheer in a weird looking Thai-guy.
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| Temperature Soaring Up. |
After then, she was seen more in trashy movies like Suraksha,
Raavan Raaj, Pyaar Ka Saaya etc.
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| In & As Demi Moore |
Told already, a sexy actress's resume is incomplete without a wet-rain sequence.
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| Shake your bootiya.. |
She again shot to fame with the Baba Sehgal
movie Miss 420(remember the song: Aaja Meri Gaadi me Baith Jaa… ) which was directed by her husband but this time
also, her moment of fame was short-lived. After this movie she bid adieu to Bollywood as a lead actress and was seen in some short roles in a few movies.
While writing this article, she looked like this
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| O Sanam O Sanam Mere Jaanam, kahaan chale gaye o jaanam... |
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#3:
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| Mamta Kulkarni for Stardust magazine cover photo-shoot |
हो मैंने देखा जब
तेरी नज़रों के थ्रू
कभी हंड्रेड-वन
कभी हंड्रेड-टू
उस दिन से हुआ
फीवर ये शुरू
कभी हंड्रेड-वन
कभी हंड्रेड-टू
She is one bold actress of 90s who was arguably part of
some of the biggest movies of her time and was quite popular also. She was one
actress who had little knowledge of acting and she never tried to improve on her
skills also.
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| Photoshoot for a magazine cover. |
Obviously her moment of fame came in Karan Arjun in this scene.
Mind it, she was the female Emraan Hashmi at one point of
her career:
Don’t you believe me, see this:
So much was her craze in the mid 90s that even Aamir Khan
had a movie opposite her. Needless to say, she only did what she knew best.
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| Kissing with ice is cool... |
Things seemed to change when Rajkumar Santoshi, in whose
earlier movie Ghatak (1996) she had a cameo appearance in a song, casted her as
the female lead in his 1998 movie China Gate, an ambitious remake of Seven
Samurai.
However, things did not go as planned. Relations between
Santoshi and the actress soured, and rumors began circulating that she was dropped from the movie, and reinstated only after gangster Chhota Rajan
intervened on her behalf. When the movie was finally released, it was also a
huge flop. Furthermore, the only song in the movie, the item number Chamma
Chamma, was picturised on Urmila Matondkar, even though Kulkarni had built her
reputation with such numbers. To add insult to injury, the song turned out to
be a chartbuster, greatly increased Urmila's popularity and was even used in
Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!
Angered at the turn of events, Kulkarni lashed out at
Santoshi, accused him of cutting her screen time because she had refused his
advances. Santoshi denied all rumours related to the movie, and the matter was
given a quiet burial. However, this proved to be the death blow to Kulkarni's
career. She only appeared in a handful of movies after that, and new offers
dried up.
While writing this article, she looked like this:
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| Sanskaari Selfie |
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#2:
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| Kimi Katkar |
वो कहते हैं हमसे
अभी उमर नही है प्यार की
नादाँ हैं वो क्या जाने
कब कलि खिली बहार की
Although this green-eyed sex symbol made her debut with the movie
Patthar Dil, her moment of fame came with 1985 released cult movie Adventures
of Tarzan alongside Hemant Birje. The movie had a cult status among its fans
because of the steamy scenes between the lead actors and needless to say, most
of the person reading this article would have in some point of time must have
watched any scene of this movie.
The movie was a sleeper success all credit goes to the
erotic scenes as well as catchy music which was super-hit at that time.
She worked in some forgettable movies in late 80s and her
role in most of the movies was to just expose.
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| Put on the towel, but where is the water..!! |
This song can easily go down as the most shitty song of the
decade.
Even in the pre-CGI era, the makers have achieved this.
Kudos!!
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| This insect knew the optimized path... |
Her big moment came in 1991 where she was cast as Jumma
opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Hum. The song was a runaway success and the movie
also became a blockbuster thereby her only big blockbuster till date.
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| Told ya.. You have to get wet to prove your worth. |
A popular
trivia was that she was cast opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Rakesh Roshan’s
King Uncle. Later when AB went to retirement, Jackie replaced him and Kimi
Katkar was replaced by Anu Aggrawal. Such was her craze during the 90s that she
was offered Yash Chopra’s Parampara which she refused [lol, she refused a
trashy movie which Aamir did. Logic just jumped out of the window].
Katkar quit the Hindi film industry after her marriage to
photographer and ad-filmmaker Shantanu Shorey. She settled in Melbourne,
Australia.
During writing this article, her latest pic is this:
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| They never told me I was making love with a car[Tarzan: The WonderCar] |
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#1:
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| Haiye ye neeli aankhein... |
रोज़ रोज़ आँखों तले ,
एक ही सपना चले
रात भर काजल जले,
आँख में जिस तरह
ख्वाब का दिया जले…
So, you people were probably waiting for her. If you weren't, sorry to disappoint you guys. On our top spot is the blue-eyed Raj Kapoor’s
much publicized lady who started her career in 1985 movie Ram Teri Ganga Maili.
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| Wet Dance in first movie only... WOW... |
Some of the scenes of this movie were so erotic that at one
point, Censor Board decided not to pass the movie, but Raj Kapoor used his
power to get them passed.
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| This scene infuriated the Censor Board. |
She tried to recreate the same water magic in the movie Jaal
in the subsequent years, but failed miserably.
She acted in few more successful movies like Dance Dance
with Mithun and Pyaar Karke Dekho with Govinda which were musical hits but both
were instrumental in the career of the respective actors and Mandakini didn't
get the advantage from these movies.
One more forgettable movie she did in this era was Jeete
Hain Shaan Se, which despite of being bombed at the Box-Office had some peppy songs that is popular even today.[Thanks to the Dance Shows where Prabhu Ji is a judge.]
FTW, she had 8 releases in the year 1988, a feat which has
not been achieved by any other actress. Needless to say, she never managed to
recreate the success of her first movie.
In 1994, photographs began circulating of Mandakini in the
presence of dreaded gangster Dawood Ibrahim. Rumors had already been doing the
rounds that the two were having an affair, and the photos only served to fuel
them. One of the theories put forward was that Ibrahim, who was known to have a
keen interest in Bollywood and had financed movies, had pressured Rishi Kapoor into
casting Mandakini, and she was his mistress. Later, it was alleged that she had
moved to Dubai to be with him.
While writing this article, she looked like this:
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| Waqt ne Kiyaa Kya Haseen Sitam |
Time is a great leveler. Women who started with a bang got
lost in the longer version of screen while slow starters made it big in the
end. But whether they lacked talent, aspirations or were just plain unlucky?
There are questions that will remain etched in memory of viewers who lost their
breath at seeing these beauties. And who knows 'what could have been' if they
had managed to survive the tide. Hope you liked the article and let us know
your feedback.
