Bengali, Tamil girls seem to be the flavor of Bollywood this year.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Deepika Padukone, the rebellious Tamilian girl in Chennai Express and the Goanese beauty in Finding Fanny, will turn into the avatar of a Bengali gal in Shoojit Sircar’s upcoming film Piku.
The film, which stars Amitabh Bachchan and Irrfan Khan in lead roles, is titled after the character of Padukone.
Piku is the nickname for Padukone in the film. Bachchan plays her father in the film, while Sircar has said that the film is not a love story, though Khan will play one of the characters who play a prominent part on Piku’s life, presumably one of the men out to win her affection.
For Sircar, it’s become a habit to have the lead character of a lead character in his films as Bengali, with Yami Gautam in Vicky Donor playing a Bengali girl too, in the character role of Ashima Roy.
Vicky Donor was deemed as a super hit with a strong box office showing, in 2012. So, really there’s no need for Sircar to experiment otherwise, and makes sense for him to stick with a female Bengali character in the lead.
The year 2014 has seen Bengali and Tamilian female dominated roles in Bollywood, with especially two of them standing out: director Shashank Ghosh’s excellent romantic comedy ‘Khoobsurat’ starring the inimitable Sonam Kapoor, who gave a lovely, standout performance as Dr. Mrinalini ‘Milli’ Chakravarty.
Another romantic comedy, ‘2 States’, by director Abhishek Verman, based on the novel by Chetan Bhagat, starred Alia Bhatt in the lead role, playing the role of Ananya Swaminathan, a graduate of IIM Ahmedabad. Bhatt did a good job of enacting the role, with the film doing well at the box office, and was deemed as a super hit.