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Dimple Kapadia is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Hindi films.[1] She was discovered by Raj Kapoor at age 14, who gave her the title role in his teen romance Bobby (1973), opposite his son Rishi Kapoor.[2] The film became a massive commercial success and made her an overnight star.[3][4] Her role as a Christian teenager from Goa established her as a youth fashion icon and won her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.[5][6] Kapadia retired from acting following her marriage to Indian actor Rajesh Khanna earlier in 1973, and returned to the film industry in 1984, after her separation from Khanna.[2] The release of her comeback film, Saagar, was delayed, with Zakhmi Sher becoming the second film of her career.[7] Released in 1985,[8] Saagar earned her a second Best Actress award at Filmfare,[9] and she went on to establish herself as one of the leading actresses of Hindi cinema in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1] The early roles she played following her return included the Hitchcockian thriller Aitbaar (1985), for which she received positive reviews, and the commercially successful action films Arjun (1985) and Janbaaz (1986).[10][11][12] During this period, she acted in several films in South India, which she admitted to having made for financial gain and dismissed their quality.[11]
Many of Kapadia's early roles relied on her perceived beauty, and she would struggle to be taken seriously as an actress.[13] She made a decision to accept more serious roles,[14] and won acclaim for her role in the marital drama Kaash (1987).[13][15] Financial success came with films like Insaniyat Ke Dushman (1987), Insaaf (1987), in which she played double roles; the controversial revenge saga Zakhmi Aurat (1988), in which she played an avenging rape victim; and Ram Lakhan (1989).[16][5] She started the next decade by venturing into neorealist art films, known in India as parallel cinema,[17] including Drishti (1990), Lekin... (1990), and Rudaali (1993).[5][18] All these films won her critical praise, and her role as a professional mourner in the latter earned her a National Film Award for Best Actress and a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress. She further essayed character parts in Prahaar (1991), Angaar (1992), Gardish (1993), and Krantiveer (1994), which garnered her a fourth Filmfare Award, in the Best Supporting Actress category.[19][20][5]
Kapadia became selective about her roles, and her work over the following decades was infrequent, with substantial gaps.[21][22] She played the supporting part of a divorced alcoholic in Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and was noted for her portrayal of the title role, a middle-aged professor, in the American production Leela (2002).[23][24] In both films, she played women who are the object of younger men's desire, in roles written especially for her.[5][17] Some of her later film credits include leading roles in Hum Kaun Hai? (2004), Pyaar Mein Twist (2005), Phir Kabhi (2008), Tum Milo Toh Sahi (2010), and her supporting roles included Being Cyrus (2005), Luck by Chance (2009), Dabangg (2010), Cocktail (2012) and Finding Fanny (2014).[25][20] While Dabangg was one of the highest-grossing Hindi films of all-time,[26][27] her roles in Luck by Chance and Finding Fanny earned her two Filmfare nominations.[9][28] Kapadia was cast by Christopher Nolan in his action thriller Tenet,[29] which was the fourth-highest grossing film of 2020 and earned her positive reviews.[30][31]
- ^ a b Bumiller 1991, p. 185.
- ^ a b Bumiller 1991, p. 186.
- ^ Dasgupta & Datta 2018, pp. 39–40: "Bobby was a blockbuster, the biggest hit of 1973 and the second biggest hit of the 1970s … The movie was a trendsetter as it played out a young romance against the backdrop of class prejudice."
- ^ Weinraub, Bernard (12 December 1973). "Karma of 'Bobby' Lovers Stirs India's Filmgoers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Raheja, Dinesh (8 September 2004). "Dimple: A Most Unusual Woman". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
- ^ Joshi 2015, p. 99.
- ^ Jha, Subhash K. (November 2000). "Happily ever after". Filmfare. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Mitra, Sumit (31 July 1985). "Saagar: Back to love". India Today. Living Media. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Dimple Kapadia: Awards & Nominations". Bollywood Hungama. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ Vijayakar, Rajiv (28 October 2010). "Golden Year gets Silver sheen". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ a b Chowdhury, Alpana (9 August 1987). "Reflections in a Golden Eye". The Illustrated Weekly of India. The Times Group. pp. 6–9.
- ^ Chaubey, Pranita (10 June 2020). "34 Years Of Janbaaz: Anil Kapoor Recounts Memories With Co-Stars Feroz Khan And Dimple Kapadia". NDTV. NDTV. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ a b Virdi 2003, p. 142.
- ^ Das Gupta, Ranjan (8 June 2009). "Dimple deconstructed". The Tribune. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Somaaya, Bhawana (5 March 2004). "Dimple Kapadia's Interview". Screen. Archived from the original on 2 June 2004. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
- ^ Mazumdar 2017, p. 172.
- ^ a b Bamzai, Kaveree (18 November 2002). "Forever Diva". India Today. Living Media. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Miglani, Surendra (5 October 2003). "Parallel cinema". The Tribune. Spectrum. Archived from the original on 27 June 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
with movies like Kaash, Drishti, Lekin, Rudaali and Leela, she (Dimple) showed that off-beat films too are her forte.
- ^ Dhawan, M.L. (19 January 2003). "Year of critically acclaimed films". The Sunday Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
- ^ a b Farook, Farhana (28 January 2017). "Know Your Actor: Dimple Kapadia". Filmfare. The Times Group. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ Raheja, Dinesh (1 June 2019). "Dinesh Raheja Column: Dimple Kapadia has the rare ability to laugh at herself". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 22 November 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Chopra 2014.
- ^ Dasgupta & Datta 2018, pp. 72–74.
- ^ Adarkar 2003, p. 262.
- ^ Gupta, Trisha (18 April 2016). "Mining the mother lode". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ "ZNMD Amongst All Time Top Ten Worldwide Grossers". Box Office India. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
- ^ Patel 2016, p. 11.
- ^ "Nominations for the 60th Britannia Filmfare Awards". Filmfare. 19 January 2015. Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ Roy, Priyanka (29 November 2020). "Dream Foray". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
- ^ "2020 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ Tahseen, Ismat (26 August 2020). "In 'Tenet', Dimple has the wiliest performance, say international reviews". The Times of India. The Times Group. Retrieved 22 November 2020.