This is the story of Anamika, my current wife and then girl-friend and her entry into the movie industry.
The year is 2007 and the city is Mumbai, India. We had been dating for over 6 years and were childhood sweethearts. Anamika of today looks very different from the Anamika of 2007. Back then she was just a young 21 year old. She was extremely fit with toned abs and was top heavy with her 34C breasts and was about average height for an Indian girl. Her face was round and her cheeks were plump. Her bubbly personality shone through her eyes and in her captivating smile and she styled her hair in the popular fashion made famous by Rachel Green; bangs.
Anamika loved to dance and her dream was to become a bollywood actress. I was a little more conventional in my dreams and had joined one of India's best engineering colleges after a gruelling entrance examination. My college used to have one of Mumbai's best cultural festivals and every year Anamika used to be there as a part of her college contingent. Anamika's college had the hottest girls (she being one of them) and every one looked forward to them performing on stage.
Anamika and I were in our third year of college and Anamika was the lead dancer and choreographer of her college's dance troupe. This was her final year and she had not won this competition despite participating for two years and was a runner-up both years, she desperately wanted to win it this time. We were discussing what they could put up one afternoon and we thought that it should be a show that would really bring out the difference between our colleges.
We thought the best way would be to have the females try and seduce the men. Anamika struck on an even better idea that two females will fight for the man and the so-called 'Desi/Indian' girl will win over the guy. Anamika was to play the Indian girl, Terence was to be the guy and another girl Natasha was to be the western girl. Terence and Natasha were in a relationship in real life but in the performance Anamika would end up with Terence.
The entire performance consisted of four different scenes in four song clippings. The first song clipping was a western number between Natasha & Terence which got the crowd screaming and shouting. Natasha was in a LBD and her tall svelte figure won the hearts of the mostly boys crowd.
The second one was an Indian number between Anamika & Terence. In this song, Anamika was wearing loose trousers coupled with a pink sports bra under what can be best described as a pink beach cover-up. The cover-up didn't actually cover-up a whole lot as it was almost completely transparent and was held together by just a single button below her bra. It had a wide neck which then joined at the button and then again flared out below that so that Anamika's sports bra was apparent as was her naked belly.This bold dress was itself a crowd-pleaser and they whistled and hollered even before Anamika danced a single step. Terence was in a dhoti (an Indian men's sarong that looks like loose trousers) only. Both of them looked extremely good together on stage and Terence was a treat for the eyes for the girls in the audience as Anamika was for the boys.
The third one was a famous Indian number called 'Dance of Envy' starring Anamika & Natasha. In this segment, Anamika's cover-up was discarded and she did her famous belly dance while having just her sports bra on. Natasha had an evening gown with a slit on which displayed her sexy legs. The crowd were ready to bring down the house but they hadn't seen anything yet.
The last one was between Anamika & Terence where Terence professes his love for A. This was super steamy and Anamika was dressed up in a white backless blouse which had a v-neck with just 1 button in the front. She had paired that with a white mini-skirt which looked like a short dhoti which left her luscious legs and quite a lot of her thighs bare. She looked like 'Zeenat Aman' from 'Bhor Bhaye Panghat Pe' meets 'Priyanka Chopra' from 'Ram Chahe Leela'.
The song was a naughty holi number and had a lot of touchy-feely steps where Terence holds her facing the audience by her waist, does a full leg split so that his face was at her stomach level and kisses her stomach and then rubs her stomach with the red colour while Anamika has an aroused facial expression. He then turns her so that her back is to the audience and spanks her once while she looks back to the audience and rubs her entire back with green colour. The song ends with Anamika lying on the floor face up with her legs folded under her butt leading to a natural arched back. Her legs are towards the backstage and her face towards the audience and in this position, her cleavage was pretty apparent as her back was arched. Terence empties a barrel of water on her in the spirit of holi. He then does a handstand push up and on the way down sucks on her navel button for a couple of seconds, while on his hands he walks a couple of steps forward and again does a handstand pushup, this time planting a kiss each on the top of her cleavage of both of her breasts and then again walks a couple of steps forward and lays on top of her completely which pushes even more of her breasts outward and increases the view of her cleavage for the audience. He then kisses her square on the lips for a good fifteen seconds with Anamika's hands pulling him into herself by the back of head.
This was way back in 2007 and kissing in bollywood was not even common-place and the entire audience was stumped and a lot of the men had clearly visible hard-ons. After a few seconds of complete silence, the audience broke into a standing ovation with shouts of "Once more". The compere (a young VJ) came on stage and he was wide-eyed and congratulated the troupe on one of the hottest compositions that he has seen and gave a big hug to Anamika while getting a cheap thrill of crushing her breasts into him and introduced her like one of the WWE divas, holding her hand up and twirling her around. They went on to win the competition.
Post the awards ceremony, the three of them came back to my hostel room to celebrate and I brought up the end, where Terence kissed Anamika. Natasha said the same thing and asked why they made that change. Terence and Anamika both looked down and said that it was somewhat unplanned but felt right. Terence said that after the provocative dance he could not resist looking at Anamika's lips and the passion in her eyes and Anamika said that once Terence kissed her, it felt right and kissed him back. Natasha and I looked at each other completely flummoxed and said that we thought they might have made a last minute change but if it was unplanned and both of them felt right while kissing each other, what did it mean for our current relationships. Anamika said that she loved me and this was a caught in the moment type of thing and Terence said the same. All three, Terence, Natasha and Anamika were hoping to get into bollywood and Anamika and Terence reasoned that this was bound to happen in their future careers. I was still a little bit uncomfortable but eventually agreed after Anamika came up to me and kissed me. I knew then that I could do anything for this girl.
This kickstarted Anamika's career in the glam industry, she appeared in quite a few TVCs and also got to walk the ramp for a few fashion designers. It seemed that Anamika was on track to become the next big thing and I couldn't be happier for her. All through this we were going steady but to not let it impact Anamika's career, we hid our relationship.
1.5 years later, I had graduated college and had gotten a well-paying job. Anamika with her constant workouts and diet plans had gotten even more gorgeous. One evening, while discussing, we realised that she was stagnating as despite multiple auditions she was not able to crack movies. She was getting opportunities for TV sitcoms but she didn't want to take those up. During our discussions I told her that while the industry knows her, she is not very well known outside and hence has a limited fan following leading to her not being bankable. I told her despite her many TVCs and ramp walks, no one in my office or her parent's home-town knew her. She agreed and said that it makes sense and while we were discussing we came up with a plan which would surely get her noticed. In the next awards show, she would walk the red carpet in a dress which would definitely get her clicked and pasted across the Page 3 section of newspapers across the country. We joked that it's too sad that google invented image search after J Lo's dress else they would have to do it again for this one.
The next awards show was the filmfare awards. The trophy for the filmfare was a black lady. Anamika was going to dress up as the black lady for the show. She would be in a two piece dress made out of satin. The top would be a tiny blouse which would be loosely bound behind her back and would just cover her breasts and keep her shoulders bare. A thin string around her neck would hold the blouse up. The bottom would be a floor level wrap around sort of skirt with a thigh slit all the way up to her hips. Her entire belly and back would essentially be exposed. Her hair would be done up in a messy wet style.
As she got on the red carpet, the entire paparazzi crew got in line to click her and she got into the pose of the trophy so that they could make sense of the dress. In this pose her entire leg was exposed as was her belly and underarms and it showed her extreme sexiness. I was casually standing on the side while she shone in the limelight.