(Recommended by SI readers Guruprasad, StrYngLad74 & Viswajithkn)
Mon dieu, never have our old, tired eyes fallen on such pitiful acting.
Urmila Matondkar and her sadistic accomplice in crime Jackie Shroff have butchered the 1995 Bollywood movie Rangeela with one of the clumsiest performances we’ve ever beheld on the big screen.
The nightmarish quality of the duo’s acting is a sordid spectacle evident in frame after frame.
Since Urmila Matondkar’s Bollywood dreams form the leitmotif of this Ram Gopal Varma film, she unfortunately figures in much of this movie. Much to our immense discomfiture.
When the woman is not irritating with her pathetic acting, she is offending with her sluttish motions as she spreads her legs wide and goes through weird contortions that are supposed to be dancing!
Whether it’s her initial failed screen test, her solo dance on the beach when Jackie Shroff first discovers her, the Tanha Tanha song-dance in the movie-within-the movie, in all of these and more Urmila Matondkar completely fails to deliver the acting goods.
In a cheap trick that’s fairly common in the Bollywood cesspool, Rangeela director Ram Gopal Varma has Urmila don some of the skimpiest costumes in hopes that the audience will drool over her long legs, upper thighs et al and overlook her utter lack of acting or dancing capabilities.
In the Hai Ram Yeh Kya Hua song, when Urmila tears Jackie Shroff’s black shirt and slides down his body we thought she was going to give him a blowjob on screen. Really. Continue reading »
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