"Anybody can play a hero"....i recently heard somebody saying...."the most difficult thing is playing character roles".....by which i suppose he meant other characters.....well...he might be right....i don't know ... .having never played anything.....but i could see what he was driving at...
when we look back at our cinema,...oh.boy...what great character artists have we had?..s.v.rangarao comes to mind before anybody else.....and..gummadi?..how suave he used to be?...c.s.r.?..wow...with his meaty dialogue delivery......after effortlessly slipping into those roles from being a villain..how satyanarayana excelled as a character artist?...and...as of today kota srinivasa rao?...,,god"s gift to telugu cinema...i should say..and the female ones?.....anjali,...pandari bai,.. the inimitable nirmala....who would be busier than the busiest heroine.....and...manorama....did she ever fail?.....no..these people always scored A grades..in every film....(if only an exam were to be conducted.)
But the scene around heroes was a bit intriguing to watch....all our heroes were heavily propped up by meatiest dialogues,...the camera has to focus only on them all the time.....even the sidekick comedians were reined in to upscale the hero"s image...(they could crack jokes on every body but the hero.)...they are always dressed up in the latest fashions.(those bright shirts and white shoes).....even while romancing, he gets a definite edge.....ofcource the heroine is always a second fiddle.....
.and...insite of all these prop ups, most of our heroes fail to register...even our so called stalwart heroes appeared quite naive......it is comic to see how the great N.T R and A.N.R and their kin fared in some of their earlier films and even the later ones too......frankly ramarao overacted,..while a.n.r. under acted( a safer option)...when called in to show greif,..ramarao put his hand a mile down his throat and hung his head,..while a.n.r.hid his face from the cam in a side angle, both never faced it honestly.......lol.....some crores were sunk with inept shows by heroes..i should say...just because they were unconvincing.....
well...i can not really blame them...it is a tight rope walk......how long can a person stand up looking virtuous,..dignified..above reproach....without inviting ridicule?......i mean...one has to see a venumadhav or brahmanandam or ali parrodying the heroes....you burst out in laughter....frankly,in real life there are no heroes to borrow from....where are any real life heroes?......politicians?...they are hopeless..only the mahatma can become a hero,because he never had clay feet to show up...sports?...sachins and dravids could hardly be called as hero material....business magnates?..they are nowhere visible....did GURU score?..
no...i don"t think it was right.....playing a convincing, infallible hero,... is a most challenging role....simply because,..there are no heroes in actual world....kamalhaasan,,..and in a way both shahrukh,and amir discovered this fact and play their roles with that slight touch of the ludicrous...they are not afraid to stoop to unheroic exhibitions of getting beaten up or being made to look foolish..which was rather unthinkable before.ofcource, today"s young heroes are following suit..they are game to try out different genres....but in the end this is going to cut short their longevity as heroes.
very few persons seem to survive playing pure heroes and still keep their image intact,.....chiranjeevi and rajnikanth count as two such people..these two are still infallible,..still larger than life and still tread the precariously thin line between heroism and the ridiculous.rajni twirls his cigarettes,whirls his angavastrams,makes umpteen faces,but still looks convincing as puts on a serious expression.....well...hats off to the pure heroes.....
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