Emotions Deceive Rani Mukherjee

Deceptive Emotions of Rani Mukherjee


By MOHAN SAHAY

At times you just can’t camouflage let alone hide your true emotions even while you are acting for a film or drama. Emotions betray you and you just can’t do a damn about it.

This happened to Rani Mukherjee while acting for the much hyped and talked about film Kabhi Alvida Na Kehana. If you have seen the film or intend to see it even for the second time care to read Rani’s acting in the film as she plays the role of a wife who could not care less leave aside loving her man – that is Abhishek Bachan on the screen. She longs for another guy that is Shahrukh Khan on screen and goes all out to betray her husband and give everything to the other man that a woman can give to a man.

However, her tears and sadness for the husband on screen reflects some degree of true emotions as if the person in Rani Mukherjee overtakes the character of Maya in the film. So much so that one is left wondering how Maya who has so much concern (and love) for Rishi is going to desert him for another man.

When Amitabh Bachan is on the deathbed, Rani embraces Abhishek and breaks into his arm crying her soul out again betraying her hidden love for the man albeit on the screen. When she loved the other man Shahrukh, the character of Maya would not be so expressive even while offering condolences to her husband whom she never loved. Rani was deceptive in her role in the film.

Look at the other side of her love for the other man. Whenever she expresses her love for Shahrukh in few intimate shots taken including the one where Maya tenderly touches Dev’s lips with her finger to remove the stain of tomato ketchup. Rani’s expressions were too insipid. The scene demanded otherwise.

May be her emotions for Abhishek in real life were too deep in her mind at the time of the shooting of the film or may be she was wondering why the role played by Shahrkh as the other man whom she had to love and for whom she had to desert Abhishek was not reversed by the producer director. May be she could have offered better expressions true to life as she did in the film Black. At the end Rani ends up betraying her emotions on screen that were illusory.


This is not for the first time that actors have not been able to hide their true emotions while acting on screen. Two examples should suffice.

Those who have seen the magnum opus of Guru Dutt’s Kagaz Ke Phool would recall how Waheeda Rehman while giving a particular scene for the shoot could not hide her true emotions while casting glances at Guru Dutt in the open hood car when the two were out for shooting in the film. Guru Dutt played the role of Director while Waheeda was the heroine of the film on the screen as well. That she was being drawn to Guru Dutt and was falling in love for him was clear and loud in her expressions – no word spoken mind you. In real life too Guru Dutt and Waheeda shared intimate relationship that ended with the tragic death of Guru Dutt at the young age of 39. He had committed suicide in 1964.

The second such play of emotions was visible in film Silsila when Amitabh Bachan and Rekha betrayed their true emotions for each other in the film in intimate scenes. Both were indulging in extra marital relationship on the screen during the period the film was made by Yash Chopra in 1980 – 81 the film world was abuzz with the talk of the affairs between the two then. Incidentally, Jaya Bachan was in the role of Amitabh’s wife – real life situation while Rekha played Amitabh’s flame on the screen not far removed from reality. It is to the credit of Jaya that her performance was superb. May be she had to act and express as a character in the film which was not artificial to say the least.

Had Kabhi Alvida Na Kehana been directed by Guru Dutt, Vijay Anand or Yash Chopra, it would have been an all time great movie. Alas, it was not to be so. Karan Johar is a mediocre filmmaker and director.
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Anonymous comment posted wrongly on Bismillah Khan article is being pasted below:

Anonymous said...
Though I agree that Rani's role in KANK was not convincing, I think it is more of a reflection of Karan Johar's mediocrity than anything else. What Karan excels in is showing & selling grandeur, that's it! I think, among the five leading lights of the this film, Rani deserved at least the third most powerful role, because Big B & SRK are in a class of their own! Rani's obvious talents have been wasted in this film, where she managed to bag the weakest role of the five!
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