नेपोलियन आणि मीना कुमारी ...Napoleon and Meena Kumari

 नेपोलियन आणि मीना कुमारी  यांच्यात महत्वाचे साम्य काय? 

नेपोलियन यांचा उजवा हात...

"... Ask a group of people to describe Napoleon Bonaparte’s physical appearance and chances are the same two things will come up: he was short – so short that contemporary British cartoonists delighted in depicting him as a pint-sized figure called ‘Little Boney’, in fact – and that he would always walk around with his right hand tucked in between the buttons of his shirt, waistcoat or jacket...." 

(Jonny Wilkes, History Extra, July 2021)

(... But the truth behind the look has little to do with Napoleon at all, and more to do with portraiture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Concealing a hand in a shirt became a common pose in paintings as a symbol of statesmanlike nobility and restraint. According to a 1737 book on etiquette, The Rudiments of Genteel Behaviour by François Nivelon, it symbolised “manly boldness tempered with modesty”. That idea may go back as far as ancient Greece, when eminent orator Aeschines declared that speaking with an arm inside one’s cloak was a sign of modesty.... )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... आणि मीना कुमारी यांचा डावा हात पूर्णपणे आपल्याला पडद्यावर कधीच दिसत नाही... 

(Well, turns out that the little finger of her left hand was broken and hence it appeared crooked. In an interview, Kamal Amrohi's son Tajdar Amrohi revealed that on May 21, 1951, Meena Kumari was returning to Mumbai from Mahabaleshwar when her car met with an accident.)