Presence. You can smell it, see it, taste it but you can't manufacture 'it'. It is the make or break of any star. Intangible, yet impossible to succeed without it. Talent, looks, pedigree and even luck are rendered meaningless if you haven't got it. If you do, the rest can be acquired along the way. Who has it, who doesn't? Does it run in the family? Can you work towards it? How do you get it? I don't know. But when someone's got it, you can see them coming from a mile.
Sonakshi Sinha, the sassiest star kid in sight oozes it in abundance. She's young, beautiful, brash, pedigreed and exudes confidence. I've known her as a plump teenager and even back then with the all the extra puppy fat she was always full of fearlessness, or as she likes to say these days - Dabangg. All this mettle bordering on presumption would have been overbearing if it didn't come with the right dose of naivety. The Sinha family is traditional with old world values and Sonakshi has found cause enough to revel rather than rebel against the over protective nature of her folks and brothers.
If her Shotgun father frowns and furrows at her leaving the house in shorts, she smiles, gives him a peck on the cheek and rushes out before he can catch her. Yet she blushes and won't answer when asked if she's ever had a boyfriend. "My father will kill me...actually he'll kill you...he'll throw you off the couch." Luckily, I know her father doesn't actually have a shotgun. Besides he's openly admitted that his darling daughter is the only one who can make him dance around her little finger.
Going by the glimpses we've caught of her in the trailers and the fact that she convinced the angry Khan to sport the comic moustache, it's not just her dad she's got dancing to her tune. Don't go reading more into that. I know this girl and the tight hold her mother has on her - a link up, especially with the newly single Sallu is out of the question. But the question will be asked and a lot worse will be assumed. Is this something little Miss Sinha is prepared for? That's when pedigree helps, "...I've seen it all my life with my Dad... from the time we started watching TV and reading we were not protected from the link ups and rumours any more... we learnt to ignore them and it didn't affect us."
The industry has sat up and taken notice. They await the girl who seems to have it all and flaunts it. A girl who's in no hurry to sign her next film because she knows her fate (unlike her brother Luv's) will not be decided at the box office. She has that ethereal something that filmmakers and audience run after. It can't be pinned only felt.
To feel her presence tune into Headlines Today this Saturday 28th August at 7.30pm and Sunday at 12.30pm. Tell me if I'm right?
Posted by Koel Purie Rinchet
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