BAHUT JYADA BOLD HONA BHI BAHUT ACHA NAHI HOTA KISI KISI KE LIYE... BY Ali Peter John

Look at anything very carefully or at any life carefully and you will find that there is a certain history not just a story about it.

And so it is with some actresses who have believed that by being bold and displaying their body or making bold statements, they could earn fame and success and have succeeded in the initial stages, but have ultimately failed and some have even failed miserably.

Rehana Sultan made her debut in a film called chetna and it was a film about a prostitute and the role demanded that she display her body and do some of the most lude and intimate bedroom scenes with her hero Anil Dhawan and being a very good actress, she did the role with effortless ease and she was branded as the first "adult heroine of Hindi films".

She was flooded with similar offers to play the callgirl or the prostitute, but this demand even paid off well for her when in her very second role as a woman mistaken for a prostitute in "Dastak" and pitted against a formidable actor like Sanjeev Kumar. She won the National for the best actress ( Sanjeev also won the National award for Dastak).

But the national award didn't give her the respectability the award normally gives and she continued to receive the same kind of roles till she got disgusted and married B.R Ishara, the director who gave her the first break as a prostitute in Chetna. Life was never the same again for her.

Asha Sachdev was another bright student from the FTII and was also a victim of being branded as a callgirl who had to play bold roles in all the films she had to do and she played them calling it her "fate".

Her life itself turned out to be a disaster when her family faced all kinds of trouble financially and otherwise and she lost out in love when the only man she loved died in the prime of his youth.

Her career ended with her playing the prostitute again in B.R Chopra's, the burning train and she was never seen in films again.

Radha Saluja was another bright student from the FTII and she had to only make two mistakes of playing the victim of brutal rape, one in a film called "Do raah" and the other in a film called "Prabhat".

Do raah was publicised as "India's first film to show a 20 minutes long rape" and that scene wrecked her career and she had to leave for America where she got married and came back to films years later as a Mother in a film made by Sunil Dutt... Why am I remembering these miserable stories now ? It is because of an actor called Paoli dam.

The girl was a brilliant Student in Calcutta, she wanted to be a chemical engineer or a pilot, she was a trained bharatnatyam dancer and a theatre actress, but she was also attracted by the chamak dhamak of films.

It is this attraction that led her to find roles in a number of Bengali films which were mostly based on family based subjects or sex.

It is still difficult to believe why a girl with a very good background in every way and a reasonably good actress want to play daring, bold and shocking roles in films after films.

She had the privilege of working with well known directors like Basu Chatterjee, Gautam Ghosh, Anjan Das and others, but whatever the subjects, these directors were only interested in having her as a sex item or object in their films.

They were known for establishing the career of other actresses but they are now known as directors who misdirected Pauli dam and led he on the path to nowhere.

Her image as a sex object spread to Bollywood and directors like Vikram Bhatt and Vivek agnihotri signed her to play the leading lady of their films like "Hate story" and "Amrit Arora murder tragedy" and if Pauli dam even imagine that these films and these directors would help in establishing her as a star in Bollywood, she was mistaken.

All she could established was what she had already established in Bengali Films and that was that she was a sex object.

There was one last chance for her to prove herself as a sensible actress when a leading editor of films Subhash sehgal opted for her for his film "Yara sili sili ".

But even as he professed that he was making a sensitive film about a woman, he was making it very clear that he was only interested in body of Pauli dam. And the film had neither body not soul and was naturally a disaster at the box office and even otherwise. And neither the director, nor Pauli nor the hero have been heard of again.

Pauli Dam must be in her early 40s now and I if this is the right age for her to take advantage of the bold revolution that is sweeping across this once great country.

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