She didn’t plan it this way, but Indian actress Richa Chadha has inadvertently invited attention to her new film ‘Shakeela’, out in UAE cinemas on December 24.
The biopic about a South Indian adult film star enjoys the distinction of being the first Indian movie to get a wide release in the country after the start of the pandemic. The movie will release in India over 1,000 cinema screens in five languages including Hindi.
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The biopic about a South Indian adult film star enjoys the distinction of being the first Indian movie to get a wide release in the country after the start of the pandemic. The movie will release in India over 1,000 cinema screens in five languages including Hindi.
Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/34ytFZc
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#RichaChadha #Bollywood #Shakeela
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00:00it is what it is and there's no denying of it also if you've seen the trailer she says
00:05this is just a job for me I have to do it for my family and I don't force people to come and watch my film
00:12how do you humanize a character that is mostly standard and object to titillate you know can
00:18you humanize it is it possible see there are two ways you can tell a story like this you can either
00:22go the very art house way and make like make a beautiful festival film which travels and wins
00:29awards or or you can make a very pulpy commercial film which is almost like the films that she used
00:35to do and using those talk about her personal struggle her personal life whatever it was like
00:44how her family forced her to do all of this how she wanted love in her life how her
00:51superstardom was something that she hadn't worked on the whole quest is to humanize
00:57this character and save her from the kind of judgment that I think she's been living with for
01:02the past few decades you did not try to put on weight and try to become her you know there's no
01:06physical generally biopics the first thing the actors generally tend to do I feel is be as close
01:12to the subject as possible I did put on weight for the you'll see in the trailer put on lots of
01:18weight on my belly of course it wasn't possible for me given my work commitments to put on as much
01:24as to actually become her size I didn't want to get trapped into that look she's just put on
01:32weight or she's because then the focus tends to be only on that like physical transformations and
01:38things like that so in this case I wanted to be as close and as raw as possible I focused on
01:48being able to be true to her story generally Bollywood biopics exactly they try to glorify
01:54the subject they try to gloss over their drug addictions and everything I guess it's just one
01:59of the pitfalls we seem to be suffering with this was there a temptation to make her more perhaps
02:04just you know what is it called watered down things diluted make it more palatable for the
02:09viewers so that she doesn't come across to you know so that everybody know there's no yeah no
02:15no no there's no whitewashing here again I want to tell you that it's a very commercial film so
02:21like don't go into it expecting yeah I mean it's a very commercial film but having said that
02:28there's no attempt to whitewash her it is what it is and there's no denying of it also if you've
02:32seen the trailer she says this is just a job for me I have to do it for my family and I don't
02:38force people to come and watch my films do you think this movie will reduce the shaming around
02:43adult movie stars like it's just a profession at the end of the day I think this lady was by
02:49herself very dignified like everything like I'm sure there's so many things you wouldn't know
02:53about her like as soon as she could afford to she got a body double because she was quite
02:58religious and she didn't want to be doing all this but she was forced to because of her family
03:04and the monetary conditions we've only strived to sort of like tell her side of the story with
03:15as much dignity as possible without shying away from the truth