Ah the generative artificial portrait of Indian actresses all sari-clad and lined up like the high school yearbook photo call of the best of the best of the 90s and early 2000s. Pity its so darned fake...
From the top; Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Manisha Koirala, Sonali Bendre, Kajol.
Seated, from left to right, Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi and Juhi Chawla.
Apart from Filmfare awards (before it lost is lustre) no one else could have gotten these ladies within a square mile of each other. As the Indian film industry gets more corporate, divisive, separate, self-serving... the collective barely turns up for the other. Think of every awards show --and now there are soooo many-- when you can look out at the audience and predict who the winners are -- they are all dutifully informed well in advance and the nominees are a no-show. Why bother to support colleagues or the fraternity?!
Now I'm not one to be nostalgic of a past that didn't exist, but as retro images on Instagram show, there were definitely more parties, events and celebrations when the industry turned up for each other - without sponsorship or a dangling award at the end of a stick...
As there is nothing more constant than change in the industry, let's see what it morphs into in the coming decade.
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