These days, actresses are a dime a dozen. Actresses are wanted for various Films in Hindi and Regional languages. They are needed for TV Serials. They are needed for Short films, and Art Films. And of course good looking girls first enter the Modelling industry and slowly graduate to Miss India, Miss World, beauty contests. There after they jump into films.
Not all actresses have the Elegance that is the Hallmark of Feminine beauty. Attractive, fatally attractive figures are different from truly graceful and elegant figures, who make a deep impression on the minds of those who behold their beauty.
Let me start from the latest faces and go back to the to yester year actresses.
Shruti Hassan and Sonam Kapoor, of late, have been very successful in films and they carry themselves with that grace and poise which finally can be termed as Elegant. Both these actresses reflect a subtle innocence and sparkle in their eyes. They have the poise and refreshingly simple looks, that puts them in the category of Elegant Actresses.
One generation before these two actresses, were Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Deekshit and Rani Mukherjee, who had that extra something in their looks and personality to qualify for the category of Elegance personified.
And if you go back into yester years you can examine, Hema Malini, Raakhee, Vidya Sinha ( the Rajnigandha girl ), for the class of Elegance.
And in the 50s we had, Nargis, Nutan and Meena Kumari in Hindi and Savitri and Devika in Telugu films, who were truly Elegant in their times.
And in Hollywood, in those golden 50s were, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardener, Grace Kelly who simply exuded Elegance in their demeanour.
But today you talk to any youngster, and they will innocently ask "what is Elegance, please ? " ! Because today beauty means only glamorous and fatally attractive like Vidya Balan in Dirty Picture !
To appreciate Beauty, one has to cultivate a taste as such and look upon the extra ordinary feminine form that God Created. Only aesthetic painters, sculptors and later day photographers could appreciate and show their creative talent in depicting the Feminine Beauty, which God Created with so much care and patience.
