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shreeanderson
8/8/2004 7:34 AM
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A prominent Indian actress is invited to appear in Playboy, another graces the cover of Time magazine, two Indian women run successful porn sites, top Indian actresses indulge in intimacies on screen, and a series of Bollywood movies focuses on affairs outside marriage -- the themes are getting bold, and so are Indian women.
A caveat first. India still exists at two levels: first, in the pockets of urban affluence, where the stereotype of the traditional Indian woman whose sole duty is to raise kids and look after her husband is being continually challenged. Then there is the other India, where one hears of a Hindu boy being burnt for loving a Muslim girl or of the dreaded "culture police," Hindu fundamentalists who believe it is anathema for a girl and a boy to hold hands in public.
But barriers are being broken in arenas vital to modern Indian society --
movies, television and the Internet.
Two Indian women, Angela Devi and Sunny Leone, have hit the big time in the U.S. porn industry. Devi, 25, was born in New Delhi and has been living in Phoenix for 17 years. Her credits include regular appearances in the hard- core magazine Hustler since 2002 and in voyeuristic videos.
Leone, 23, was named Penthouse´s Pet of the Year a few months back. Both women also run successful Web sites.
In India, Mallika Sherwat, who has set scorching standards in her two bare-dare movies, has been invited to pose for the centerfold spread of Playboy magazine -- the first such offer to an Indian star. Sherwat´s publicist has said the actress was considering the proposal.
The success of Sherwat and her movies has sent other Bollywood actresses into a tizzy, and several are now shaking off their traditional Indian mores.
The first off the blocks is starlet Neha Dhupia, who in her second movie release, "Julie," is set to bare her backside, a first in a mainstream Bollywood film.
Another star, Mahima Chowdury, who famously spurned top director Subhash Ghai´s suggestion that she strip for a film a little a few years back, will be featuring in a series of lip-clinchers with her much older co-star, Anupam Kher, in the movie "Chess."
Bollywood prima donna Aishwarya Rai, who has appeared on the cover of Time magazine for an article that dealt with the coming of age of India´s film industry, has reportedly shared some close chemistry with her real-life beau, actor Vivek Oberoi, in a yet to be released movie.
Rai was considered the epitome of prudery, keeping a safe distance from most of her co-stars on-screen, till now.
Indian movie actresses are also exploring new movie themes, including extramarital affairs and one-night stands. The latest release in this genre, a movie called "Girlfriend," is the story of two lesbians.
It has raised the hackles of the "culture brigade," in the shape of the Shiv Sena, the regional party of Maharashtra state, whose activists are attacking cinema halls playing the film, accusing the producer and director of polluting Indian society.
All this boldness in one field of activity would of course mean nothing if Indian women were not making headway in other areas.
The unshackling of the Indian economy, the increased role of the private service sector and emergence of multinationals over the past few years has resulted in a gradual rise in the number of female managers and entrepreneurs.
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shreeanderson
8/8/2004 7:56 AM
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A recent study shows that the number of successful girl geeks in India´s information technology sector has also grown exponentially. Bollywood itself is witnessing the emergence of female filmmakers such as Tanuja Chandra, Farah Khan, Pooja Bhatt and Ekta Kapoor -- all of whom are making successful movies.
The flip side of this success is the alarming drop in the ratio of women to men in India. The steepest fall has occurred in the cities, a modern reflection of the age-old preference for male sons.
This is another of the two Indias, one that is setting its own standards and another where girl babies are not welcomed.
http://www.planetbollywood.com/Features/s070804-105636.php
While being independent for indian women is something they have worked hard for over a long period of time, but when they finally becomes independent and makes their way into the medias sex-industry, aren't they making it a bit difficult for people to take them serious and aren't they lowering the standards for many of other indian women who doesn't feel the need to sell themselves by getting naked in front of millions of people?
shreeanderson
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indianadopted
8/19/2004 4:48 AM
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I guess it just means that Indians are no purer than any other race on this planet. I think the reason why we might be surprised to see these Indians indugle in all these sexual activities, is because we have all these sterotypical ideas about Indians how to act and present themselves.
Secondly I don't think these women will have that big affect on other Indian women in general. Just look at the East Asian community, many of them has been active in the sexindustry for a long time while there are many who haven't and we still resepct them as hardworking people regardless of what their counterpart are doing.
The sad part of all this, is about who got the money, but sex sells. And I think in the future we might be seeing more Indians involved in such activities. In the beginning it might exciting and all because it is a rare phenomenen to see Indians going nude in public, (at least to my knowledge) but soon the excitement will fade away and be an integral part in the western world like every other community.
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spicy
1/19/2005 5:53 PM
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"I guess it just means that Indians are no purer than any other race on this planet. I think the reason why we might be surprised to see these Indians indugle in all these sexual activities, is because we have all these sterotypical ideas about Indians how to act and present themselves."
I agree. These things definitely have been happening. It's just that nobody wants to talk about it, or even admit it. There are some second generation Indian-Americans that literally think that people in India think sex is horribly disgusting and hate having it. Okay, where do you think those billions of people from India popped up from?
I know this is off-topic, but I'm suprised that the UK Desi porn star Nadia Nyce wasn't in that article....That woman has been in the porn industry long before any of those other women mentioned, and she's probably the most "outlandish" out of all of them.
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