I should be used to it by now, but I am continually impressed by how slooooooooooooow the Indian courts are. So now, a mere 3 years after her death her case is moving through the courts.
Poor Jiah Khan! I don’t know the details of what lead to her death (found dead in her apartment, her mother has released a suicide note that accuses her boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi and his father of driving her to it), no one does, but I do know the industry chewed her up and spit her out long ago. I mean, brought to India as a teenager by Ram Gopal Verma to star in a Lolita remake? That’s never going to work out well.
There are so many of these girls! This is the flip side of the lack of roles for older actresses, they have to keep digging up and bringing in new young girls to replace the ones who have “aged out”. If they are lucky, they have the talent to move out of that “random young girl” kind of role, like Madhuri, but more often they just get used and then forgotten, like Jiah.
It’s also why I don’t mind the nepotism so much with the women. I would rather Deepika get cast thanks to her father’s fame, or Sonam star in the films her father produces, or Sonakshi have her mother on set with her at all times, then yet another young nobody model be brought in so everyone can force her to do whatever they want, and then forget about her.
Although at least Jiah isn’t being forgotten! And good for her mother to have kept pushing and pushing and pushing for 3 years until her case is finally being heard.
(19 years old, her second movie, lots of promise)
(22 years old, her 3rd and final movie, followed by 3 years of hanging around the outskirts of the industry, waiting for someone to notice her again)
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Is RGV’s movie her first? I thought she began her career in a movie directed by Revathi with Shobana as the lead and set in U.S.
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Mitr, My Friend? The Internet says that is Preeti Vissa.
The Internet also says that she was considered for Tumse Nahin Dekha, but Mahesh Bhatt thought she was too young to be working. Which makes me like Mahesh Bhatt better, and RGV even less. If Mahesh Bhatt thought she had the talent, but should be allowed to grow up a little, who is RGV to come in and decide she is old enough to handle being thrown into the industry, and love scenes with a man old enough to be her grandfather?
I remembering reading interviews with her back when Nishabd came out, and she sounded so naive! She didn’t know any of the industry people and had no idea what a big deal it was to be launched opposite Amitabh. She’d just arrived from London and had no connections to India (besides it being where her parents were from). She really wasn’t ready for the kind of stardom she got.
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