Stories now required the occidental look. There was one more basic reason for the influx of models into the dream machine. Lakhs had already been spent on building them up. While the models were attracted to cinema because of the easy money, the movie men realised that they came with ready made images. But after Jackie Shroffs success in Hero, the doors began to open. Zeenat and Tina Munim were perhaps the exceptions because Dev Anand brought them in. Until the beginning of the 1980s, movie moghuls did not look twice at models. Many of them look down on the required singing-through-tulip-fields and crying buckets. They are more familiar with what Hollywood churns out than what is being made next door in Juhu. Most of them do not quite look Indian, that indefinable quality is missing. Most of the models cannot speak Hindi fluently. More difficult for these models is to adapt to the entire ethos of the world of celluloid. But from looking good to acting good is no easy transition.
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