Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", it is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. Most recent archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was constructed as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438–1472). The names of the buildings, their supposed uses, and their inhabitants are all the product of modern archeologists, on the basis of physical evidence, including tombs at the site. There are, therefore, no written records of the site while it was in use. The Incas, in contrast to the Maya, had no written language, and no European visited the site until the 19th century, so far as is known. In English, the name is pronounced / ˌ m ɑː tʃ uː ˈ p iː tʃ uː/ or / ˌ m æ tʃ uː ˈ p iː k tʃ uː/, in Spanish as or, and in Quechua ( Machu Pikchu) as. įor most speakers of English or Spanish, the first 'c' in Picchu is silent. The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers (50 mi) northwest of Cusco. Mental Madhilo (by Nivetha Pethuraj) and the stoic and assured Chitra ofīut, let’s definitely have some worthwhile character arcs for the women please? Surely they can do better than a hair-pulling sequence in Bulgaria.Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter (7,970 ft) mountain ridge. It’s true-to-life to have flawed characters like these, as much as we root for a confident Swecha of
Brahmaramba is flawed and it takes the beach break-up scene for her to realise the hurt she’s caused someone. There are portions where she needlessly drives the guy (Varun Tej) up the wall. Films with some semblance of a story and those that don’t take its male and female characters for granted are the ones that get a repeat audience.įidaa’s Bhanumathi isn’t perfect. In recent times though, we’ve seen several big films bite the dust. At the end of the day, a blockbuster counts. In the race to make their mark, the actors are content with the opportunity of being a part of big films. Even if you subscribe to that and believe she doesn’t have to be all grey matter, a little bit of common sense isn’t asking for much, is it? In big ticket projects, it’s well known that popular female actors are quite often signed without being told about the story or their character. The problem is with the assumption that since a lot lies on the shoulders of the hero, no one would care what role the heroine plays. Several other recent films have witnessed dumbing down its female characters. Caught in an awkward situation by her father, the hero and heroine recite lines from the study material such as ‘Taj Mahal was built by Shah Rukh Khan’. Enamoured by the khaki-clad hero, she was a girl struggling to pass high school. Here Rakul was cast in a role that required her to be again, cute and silly. Theeran Adhigaram Ondru ), which encapsulated a decade-long search by the police to grab a dreaded gang that unleashed a spate of crimes in pockets of Tamil Nadu. Rarandoi Veduka Chuddam which revolved around her character. In the same year, Rakul shined as the effervescent and self-obsessed character of Brahmaramba in Spyder (2017), for instance, had Rakul Preet in a role that can politely be termed silly. Pelli Choopulu (essayed by Ritu Varma), one can list 10 other films where the woman was only required for the glamour quotient and had no significant contribution to the plot. The hair-pulling sequence apart, the entire character sketch of the two women in Loosu ponnu ’ and in Telugu, it could just be ‘ In Tamil film circles, the roles that are the regional equivalent of the ‘dumb blonde’ cliché get categorised as ‘ What do they do? These young women are shown slapping each other and grabbing each other by the hair! In one swift stroke, this scene almost erased the optimistic view one held about well-written roles for women in a few films last year - think Pallavi ofīaahubali 2 (Anushka Shetty) among a few other films. It reached a zenith in one of the most dismal segments that involved a scene in which the two leading ladies - played by Keerthy Suresh and Anu Emmanuel - are at loggerheads over the man they love. Then, there are films that require the leading women to be mind-numbingly stupid.Īgnyaathavaasi, was a disappointment on several counts. There are always exceptions to this rule, but the cutesy, silly heroine is a cliché that many filmmakers don’t seem to tire of.
In a mainstream film that’s heavily centred on its hero with a mass appeal, the role that the leading lady is relegated to, often requires her to just look cute and occasionally silly.
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