tamil film heroines

[cinemalover]

for long there has been a question running in the mind of general tamil public and movie goers,
why there are not many tamil women coming on top as heroines
and nearly 95% of the tamil heroines are non tamil people.

and these thoughts will further be discussed elaborately in this topic.

before 1950 most of the heroines were tamil as knowing and speaking fluent tamil(even singing)is a compulsory for all actress.

but when india become independent there was large state of Madras covering most of 4 southern states and chennai served as the hub of film producing for all 4 southern languages, so from there the invasion of non tamil actresses begun

also playback singing become popular and these non tamil actress spoke fluent tamil.
but north indian actress are literally unknown till 1980s.

to be continued....................

[cinemalover]

in the fifties and sixties most of the tamil heroines were telugu(banumathi,savitri,anjali devi)or kannada(saroja devi,jayanthi,bharathi)or mallu(padmini&sisters), and they talked fluent tamil,though many popular tamil heroines were also there like vijayakumari etc.

also many non tamil heroines were natives of madras so no linguistic problems arose.

most notably the beautiful and fantastic tamil actress ever vyjayanthi mala,born and brought up ion chennai chose hindi film for tamil ones.

hemamalini,rekha,sridevi,meenakshi seshadri followed her footsteps and made enormous success in hindi films.

one cinema analyst pointed out the reason not so many tamil actress coming on top in kollywood is that most of the fair and beautiful tamil women in tamilnadu are from brahmin community and becausse of anti brahmin sentiments of 50s and 60s they fled to other film world or feared enterimng tamil industry.

exception to this view are jayalaitha and lakshmi who remained top heroines of their time.

by 70s most of the heroines were from telugu or malayalam.
and with rathi agnihotri's debut in tamil, the stage was set for great bombay invasion.

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[Vivasaayi]

konja(m) koochapaduvanga pola...

[cinemalover]

konja(m) koochapaduvanga pola... :ashamed:

that was before 1990, from then on mnay were willing to let go off

accham,naanam,madam and payirpu

suganya
kasturi
gaythri jayaram
gaythri raghram
kanika
trisha
priyamani

[rajasaranam]

in the fifties and sixties most of the tamil heroines were telugu(banumathi,savitri,anjali devi)or kannada(saroja devi,jayanthi,bharathi)or mallu(padmini&sisters), and they talked fluent tamil,though many popular tamil heroines were also there like vijayakumari etc.

also many non tamil heroines were natives of madras so no linguistic problems arose.

most notably the beautiful and fantastic tamil actress ever vyjayanthi mala,born and brought up ion chennai chose hindi film for tamil ones.

hemamalini,rekha,sridevi,meenakshi seshadri followed her footsteps and made enormous success in hindi films.

one cinema analyst pointed out the reason not so many tamil actress coming on top in kollywood is that most of the fair and beautiful tamil women in tamilnadu are from brahmin community and becausse of anti brahmin sentiments of 50s and 60s they fled to other film world or feared enterimng tamil industry.

exception to this view are jayalaitha and lakshmi who remained top heroines of their time.

by 70s most of the heroines were from telugu or malayalam.
and with rathi agnihotri's debut in tamil, the stage was set for great bombay invasion.

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[joe]

one cinema analyst pointed out the reason not so many tamil actress coming on top in kollywood is that most of the fair and beautiful tamil women in tamilnadu are from brahmin community and becausse of anti brahmin sentiments of 50s and 60s they fled to other film world or feared enterimng tamil industry..

This is pure crap

[cinemalover]

since 1970s tamil fil ndustry mostly produced low budget flicks and indusstry dominated by directors with MGR left and sivaji running a lone race, the importance having a glamorous heroines was unwarranted

but bharati raja introdueced rathi agnihotri a punjapi who made huge success , but she too moved northwards to telugu then to hindi like sridevi.

so when sridevi left there was huge vaccum created in tamil films for a complete actres,who is beautiful ,glamourous, talentd and loved by many.
that vaccum was occasionally filled by many but for a brief period and true cinema lovers were sincerley longing for a actress like sridevi for decades.

top actress from the time sridevi left tamil till now.

criteria is beauty,popularity,box office record,number of films, dancing acting skills and having a fan following among male youth population(they now account for 75% of BO collections)

1. 1983-86 ambika radha

2.1986-90 revathy,amala,nadhiya,seetha(all quit after marriage)

3.1990-1993 kushboo(for unknow reasons she was removed from all films in mid 1993)

4.1993-96 meena roja

5.1996-97 invasion of bollywood nagma(from 94),aishwarya rai,tabu,sushmita,shilpa shetty,kajol, simran and a host of unknopwn bombay actresses(there were nearly 25-50 debutants in the late ninties)

6.1997-2004 simran(till her marriage)

7.2004-05 trisha and sneha

8.2005-07 asin

9. 2007 shreya(upto 1.1.2008)

10.2008 nayathara

[raaja_rasigan]

u missed Jothika

[cinemalover]

i am writing from a critical and analytical point of view based on study,analysis,observation and my own love of cinema.
thats differnet story.
in the period 1998-2000 simran knocked out every heroine in tamil and only and noone came close to her, but she was lured by tollywood which offered more money, and she opted out of kushi and tenali which went to jothika who was considered not a good actress at the time acted in both films and become a distant second to simran.
but most of her films in 2001 and 2002 have failed and laila with a handful of hits in 2001 -02 set to become number 1 or 2.
even kiran after gemini and villain winner was considered as an alternative,
but jothika inspite of dozen failures got theses actresses chances in 2003 and even after dhool,KK and tirumali she was written off in 2004 after the failure of arul.
in 2004 she was cast in perazhalgan instead of navya nair at surya's insistence and mayavi also failed.only with manmadhan she hanged on.
also no actress was willing toi pair with prabhu in chandramukhi,so she got the chance.
and her film in june R failed miserably in 2005 causing 5 crore loss and gautam menon cast her in his next two films.
she also tried in telugu but they also failed.
with VV and SOK(again all actress opted out because of her, first asin and deepika paducone)and finally off market bhoomika was cast.and her next 2films failed.

mozhi become hit because most films got postponed due to world cup 07 and imminent sivaji release in april, so itr had a free run in most therates.

so for me she is not a top or winning actress as simran.

[cinemalover]

to be atop actress means,

box office record
number of hits in a given period
fan cult following
acting with major heros/directors
continued fan following even after retiring.
and mainly salary drawn.
simran was earning on par with bollywood actresses
kushboo was still like by many of her fans........