Parvathy Omanakuttan just proved me wrong that even with a blatant and loud Mallu sounding name you can still be successful in a field that is dominated by women with names as glamorous as them. I always carried the (wrong) notion that only names like Sushmita, Aishwarya, Diana, Priyanka with surnames of Sens, Rais, Haydens, Chopras could ever make it to the glitzy and glamorous world of beauty pageants and from there to the Hall of Fame of Bollywood.
With a name like Parvathy Omanakuttan one would have thought she is a new face cast in one those Adoor Gopalakrishnan movies or a village lass dancing in ‘Pavadai’ and ‘Davani’ in a Bharathi Raja movie. However you will soon see her gyrating to Himesh Reshmiya’s remixes in a Bollywood flick titled Dhoom 3 or 4 or Don 5 or 6 but I still cannot fathom myself staring at a Bollywood poster that says Starring Parvathy Omanakuttan. It’s kinda similar to hearing something like the ‘Oscar for the Best Actor goes to Srinivas Raghavan Ananthapadmanabhan’ it would fall in place better, if it sounded something like ‘and the Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Srinivas Raghavan Ananthapadmanabhan’, I guess you kinda get the picture now. Though I have nothing against such names you just get the feeling that there are some genres of names that you are conditioned to associate with certain events, professions etc…
The coming days, weeks & months will see the stories on Mumbai Terror, Spirit of Mumbai and Ajmal Amer Kasab being pushed into the insignificant quarters and telecast times on the print and the electronic media, and in particular the Malayalam media will go on an overdrive, and claims of daughter of the soil will start ringing in. They will find the remotest of links to authenticate such claims.
I just hope she retains her name when she makes her forays into Bollywood and sets the trend for future Parvathys, Kamalakshis or Gnanasambandams to make it big in the world of glamour in spite of their names.
For all you know we might hear of one 'Parvy Omna' an anagramic distortion of her name doing the rounds in Bollywood in the days to come.
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