2007-12-02 04:02:00
Have you seen Deepika Padukone closely? There is no one in India who hasn't. Just switch on the television, and you will find her beaming at you from almost every channel. In Om Shanti Om , Deepika's resplendent beauty eclipses Shah Rukh Khan's dynamic charisma whenever the two are together.Not an easy thing to achieve, but then such is Deepika's attractiveness that the average man is pinioned by the visuals, hoping and praying that her celluloid cut-out will sashay out of the screen for a while. As he watches the vision of Deepika, the haplessly besotted man does not fall in love with her. Instead, he wants to make love to her.In the article titled 'Hitting above the belt, at the heart' (Times Review, November 25), writer CP Surendran emphasises the exact opposite. Writing a panegyric with Deepika at its centre, Surendran asserts that Bollywood now has the freedom to be less harsh, less coarse, less typecast in the conception of its female characters. He overlooks Sandy, Dee