Bollywood Icons

Aruna Irani

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                                                                         Reena Roy

The ladies on this post were in their time Bollywood icons; Tabu is still an icon. Both Aruna Irani, and Reena Roy were actresses, and dancers.

I have several DVDs for sale on eBay with these ladies in, the reason for selling the movies, as I enjoy watching the ladies, is typical of the sexism rampant in Bollywood. The ladies were limited to being no more than the romantic interest of the male leads, even if, in the case of Raveena Tandon, and Sharmila Tagore, to mention two ladies, they were as good at acting as the male lead.

Mehmood in Retrospect

 A Matter of Opinion

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Last night, I was castigated - told off - for selling this set of DVDs on eBay.

The elderly gentleman from India who said I should be ashamed for selling the discs, and for saying I was selling at a loss at my price, said they had lost a great man, and an excellent actor.

I have seen several films with Mehmood in, he is a good comedy actort, but I wouldn't say he is a great actor when compared to Raj Kumar.

What I found amusing is he went to town on me about these discs, but didn't think about the people who sold them to me, or the other old Bollywood films I sell with actors who died such as Nutan, Dilip Kumar, Nargis Dutt, and Sunil Dutt to mention a few.

You may wonder how I know the man is elderly, there are two main reasons, a younger person would not have heard of Mehmood, and would not have been so offended by me trying to sell the DVDs,