I truly have one big nostalgia and that is meeting Zeenat's mom in Toronto when Zeenat came to do Namumkin. Her mom was the best representative anyone could ever wish for. She was quite articulate and had only good words about her daughter. And because of her we got to meet Zeenat. Director and producers still give Hema Malini good roles even now. They should also think of Zeenat for some good character roles in commercial movies as well as a few of our other seniors such as Padmini Kolhapure and even Amrita Singh who was superb in Kalyug.
RE:Zeenat
by Keshav on Oct 31, 2006 12:18 PM
Dear Ashley, It was quite surprising to read you here of all the places! The writing was so familiar I glanced at the name. Have you switched over your profession? The bye line has been missing from the papers and magazines for quite some time. Unless I read those in which you don't write! Would like to know about. Regards Keshav
What a wonderful woman! She is quite right about being typecast but it is s remarkable that she has no resentment. She also had (and has) such a great work ethic. Imagine the fact that she did Don for free. Today's money-minded actors can learn something from that. Zeenat was always intelligent. In the late 80s, she edited Savvy for a while and wrote a great column in it called 'Zeenatology'. She is always so committed to whatever she does, whether her work or her mothering. When I was a journalist in Bombay, in the early 90s, she refused me an interview once because her son (then very small) was unwell with a cold. She was an iconic figure for feminism in the 80s, just by being who she was: successful, intelligent, serious, committed. She had disastrous choice in men but was also political about it, seen in her press conference when Mazhar and her son (under his father's family's influence) abused her physically. I am writing an essay about her and Parveen and how they were both inhibited (and one of them destroyed) by the patriarchal contexts of India. I am so happy that despite all her suffering, Zeenat's remains a success story. I hope to interview her when I am in Bombay next.
This article looks like Dumb concatenation of thoughts !! or Biasing/Getting paid? is rediff getting paid for making the new don/srk publicity?or was the reporter who took was baised while writing this article? looks half real and half fake.... Why the heck, are you guys comparing Amitabh with srk? there is no comparison....Amitabh cannot be challenged anywhere and by anybody when it comes to acting.....sorry but this article and such articles rcenetly posted by rediff look totally biased...its true money makes people do anything but your articles are watched by millions who used to like rediff, but then such articles...are really Dumb, act as per your status...find the black sheeps and get them off....
