A typical bollywood movie usually had the female lead running around the tress or in the Swiss Alps. The heroine would be more realistic only in case the story revolved around her or if she was the protagonist of the movie. As RGV rightly feels, she had to be one of the two extremes - cute and bubbly (wearing a T-shirt and a jeans) or dignified and demure (wearing a sari and sporting a bindi). The typical Indian girl perhaps was somewhere between or may be even beyond these stereotypes.
RGV painted a more realistic picture of his heroines in his underworld movies. Urmila Matondkar’s character of Vidya in the movie ‘Satya’ is an example of this. Vidya who is the innocent next-door neighbor of the Satya (J.D.Chakravarthy) falls in love with him. However she rejects him the moment she finds that he belongs to the underworld. In stark contrast to this, Antara who plays Kannu in ‘Company’ falls for Chandu (Vivek Oberio’s character) despite knowing that he is an underworld don. It was the same director in both the instances but then there was absolutely no stereotype. No two women are same and RGV definitely believed that two of his heroines in two different films were different.
Another interesting aspect about RGV’s heroines is that they all seem to have an element of spontaneity about them. Revathy, Urmila Matondkar and Antara Mali are heroines who seem to perfectly fit the bill in his movies and the instinctive reactions in certain situations seem to come naturally in their cases. Urmila Matondkar’s terrorized expressions when her lover Satya is brutally killed in front of her eyes in the movie ‘Satya’ or Revathy’s expression of concern when the villain threatens to kill her husband in the Telugu movie ‘Gaayam’ bear testimony to this fact. Once again, it can be seen that RGV has chosen a heroine or signifier such that her characteristics strengthen and contribute to his story-telling (the connotation or the signified)
RGV painted a more realistic picture of his heroines in his underworld movies. Urmila Matondkar’s character of Vidya in the movie ‘Satya’ is an example of this. Vidya who is the innocent next-door neighbor of the Satya (J.D.Chakravarthy) falls in love with him. However she rejects him the moment she finds that he belongs to the underworld. In stark contrast to this, Antara who plays Kannu in ‘Company’ falls for Chandu (Vivek Oberio’s character) despite knowing that he is an underworld don. It was the same director in both the instances but then there was absolutely no stereotype. No two women are same and RGV definitely believed that two of his heroines in two different films were different.
Another interesting aspect about RGV’s heroines is that they all seem to have an element of spontaneity about them. Revathy, Urmila Matondkar and Antara Mali are heroines who seem to perfectly fit the bill in his movies and the instinctive reactions in certain situations seem to come naturally in their cases. Urmila Matondkar’s terrorized expressions when her lover Satya is brutally killed in front of her eyes in the movie ‘Satya’ or Revathy’s expression of concern when the villain threatens to kill her husband in the Telugu movie ‘Gaayam’ bear testimony to this fact. Once again, it can be seen that RGV has chosen a heroine or signifier such that her characteristics strengthen and contribute to his story-telling (the connotation or the signified)
Image4: The expressions of the Varma girl- Urmila in the movie Satya
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