When 'bad' roles turn attractive
- keralanext.com
Bad is good, and the girls in Bollywood have realised that! The leading ladies today don't mind giving up being goody, goody to become 'slutty'.
Go into any leading ladies' repertoire, and she's more than willing to play the wanton woman, even if it takes away from the shine of being the glamour puss.
Aishwarya Rai tried to play the unapologetic bad girl earlier this year in Raj Kumar Santoshi's underrated "Khakee". Her role required her to entrap cop Akshay Kumar in collusion with bad-man Ajay Devgan. In the end she stunned everyone by shooting down the man who loved her.
Aishwarya laughs at this evil presence in her career. "I thoroughly enjoyed shocking the audience and myself in 'Khakee'. But to be very honest, I didn't know about the twist at the end when I accepted the film. Only when we started shooting was this 'little detail' dropped on me."
"All the heroes and my director had laid bets that I'd say no to being the villain's moll at the end. When I heard it, I quite readily agreed to do it. It seemed like a challenge for me to be accepted in a negative role, and I thought I was quite up to it. I don't regret doing 'Khakee' at all."
And never mind if the audience thought otherwise. "We can't always go by their expectations. We've to create new expectations," says Aishwarya pragmatically.
