MUMBAI: Bollywood witnesses the entry of artists in the B-town on a regular basis. While some become successful, some remain unnoticed. Also, for some, it takes time to shine.
There are some who become super successful with their debut film itself while in some other cases it takes a few films to taste massive success. It looks like it is all about the ‘It’ moment and destiny. It happens like magic. That precise moment when a star is born. The shot where Kareena Kapoor splashes water on her face and Abhishek scolds her for wasting water in Refugee; that moment when Rishi Kapoor sees Dimple Kapadia (then all of 15) in a miniskirt and polka dot top in a top-shot from the staircase landing of his bungalow in Bobby; and when Kartik Aryan in Pyaar Ka Punchnaama rattles off that ‘Problem’ monologue about what women want (“Maang bharna and phir Zindagi bhar bhar maang poori Karte rahna”) a star is born.
Remembering that moment when ‘It’ happened, director Luv Ranjan told a senior journalist, “That monologue was not planned. Kartik just improvised and we went along. There was no cut. The entire thing was done in one take. Again in the sequel, we incorporated Kartik’s monologue because that was the USP of the Punchnaama franchise…it’s destiny, really.”
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There were other two heroes in Pyaar Ka Punchnaama: Divyendu Sharma and Raayo Bakhirta. It was Kartik who was chosen for stardom by destiny. Talking about that IT moment in his Rangeela, Ram Gopal Varma told the same journalist, “The minute Urmila (Matondkar) came on camera singing the title song, the audience in theatres across the country went wild. Stardom is like a collective endorsement of an actor’s connectivity. Sometimes it takes time.”
Ramu is right. It took Amitabh Bachchan 12 films before he got to Zanjeer. The difference between Zanjeer and the rest of Mr B’s films that came before is this: the IT quality was missing in the previous films. That 'It’ quality was completely missing in Sridevi in her first film Solva Saawan. But it was very much there in her second film Himmatwala. Shammi Kapoor would have been just another struggler wading through flop after flop until Nasir Hussain’s Dil Deke Dekho happened to him.
Sometimes the ‘IT’ factor explodes on the screen immediately. Shah Rukh Khan was a star the minute he was seen on screen singing Koi Na Koi Chahiye on a motorbike. Rajesh Khanna became the most successful star of all times the minute he serenaded Sharmila Tagore with Mere Sapnon Ki Rani Kab Aayegi Tu in Aradhana. Kartik Aaryan still gets requests for the ‘What Women Want’ monologue from his fans. It’s that IT moment that binds him to his fans forever.
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