Recently, on my flight from Dubai to Mumbai, I had the privilege (at least I initially thought so) of sitting next to Ms Freida Pinto. That girl (and an overnight star) displayed oodles of attitude (you can safely read it as arrogance).
Her behaviour prompted me to think what role luck plays in today’s environment. All those who would have seen Slumdog Millionaire would admit that Freida’s role was miniscule as compared to her co-stars and even to the little slum kids, Rubina and Azhar. She hardly had any dialogues to speak or scenes to act in. Yet, she was hailed as a huge find of the film to the extent that some of the world’s best directors including Woody Allen have cast her in their supposedly next venture.
Her popularity these days is more than some of Bollywood’s top actresses. She was recently included in the World’s Top 20 most beautiful actresses much above some of the prettier faces of Bollywood. She has won some of the most plum modelling assignments which so far only Ashwarya Rai could boast of.
So what do I call of this success?
Is she really that beautiful (I will leave this to debate as most of the times people say that beauty lies in the eyes of beholder)? Did she display a power performance in the movie? What about some of the more talented actors in the movie like Irrfan, Anil Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar etc. They all had roles much larger than her. In fact her co-star Dev who had the entire movie to himself is also not much talked about as compared to her. All the little kids have hardly got much in return as compared to the success/revenues the movie has generated.
This blog is not to pick upon her. I hope she will definitely be worth the hype that she has generated and the next few movies will prove that. I am just trying to use this as an example for the role sometimes luck play in somebody’s life.
And we all continuously try to convince ourselves with the traditional quote “Hardwork is the key to success”.
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