ash vs rekha

to act in period films one needs ,and as responsibily, to be totally blended in that era. This would include language, accent, ensemble and the environment. i saw a few pictures of aishwarya where she is shown wearing a peacock blue cap. one big blunder. why did the director have to go to this level to make umrao jan ada wear something that was never a part of the culture those days and especially in that era.
then again the introduction of the film has aishwarya saying something in the background which has the word "cheekh" in it. the best aishwarya could manage was "cheek-h". while it should be pronounced as munich and zurich. khhhhhhhhh. and then we have sunil shetty actign as either faiz Ali dakait or Gauhar mirza.I can only feel amused to imagine Sunil who has a heavily non-urdu accent to be playing that role.
i think the director should have known better.
Rekha was enormously succeful in her speech and accent. Shaukat Azmi was excellent , so was Dina Patak ( i guess not from UP, but still at her best), lets see how shabana Azmi perfects the role. the only person going in without any suspicions or doubts.

Thanks - that was interesting feedback Professor, though a little extreme for an educated man. Remember, one man's meat is another man's poison.

Temperance is a good Indian virtue appropos loquaciousness :)

Acting wise and the look that rekha can give, ash can't even touch it! Bollywood in general has been a complete and outrageous disappointment for the last 20 + years or so. Ladies and genteleman, this isn't an opinion! Do your reasearch and its a fact! Look at actors and actresse like Dilip, Pardip, Raj Kuma, and Kapoor, Madhubala, nargis, meena kumari then look at todays; ash, salman khan, saif ali khan...etc. These people are more or less there because of nepotism! Talent did not bring them there. I mean the only reason that feminine Hrithik Roshan is muscular is because he has a rich dad to buy him a gym! You know who Rakesh Roshan is? Remember singers and music directors like Mana Dey and Rafi Saab and C Ram Chander and Nushad and look at todays; Udit Narayan and Anuradha padwal. Movies are being cranked out without and good qulity actors and actresses these days. The only thing provided is a big budget but the talent is gone and dead. Its really sad whats happened to Indian cinema and if as if things couldn't get worse, they remake old movies with these crappy new actors who can't even fit in the toilet stool of the greats of yesterday. Why do people promote these movies? The only reason Bollywood continues to make crap is because illiterate people or people who don't know what true dialogue, or music is support it! I'm not even some old coot saying these things. Im in my early 20's and even I can see the world of difference between the fidelity in voice quality between Kumar Sanu or whoever is around now vs Kishore Kumar. Being and Indian myself, I rarely watch Bollywood movies. A few here and there do actually turn out to be good I admit, VERY FEW, like Baghban or something and even that was all about how stupid todays young people are and Amitabh was in it!