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SPEAKER_02: Hello! From Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica. This month we're talking about comediennees, women throughout history who've made us laugh. They transgressed societal norms through comedy and often spoke out against injustice using their sharp wit. Today we're talking about a woman who jump-started her career by demanding an audition with a music director. She ended up acting in hundreds of films as one of Bollywood's first female comedians. Let's talk about Toontoon. In 1923, Toontoon was born Uma Devi Katri in a small village in northern India. She was orphaned at a young age and had to teach herself how to read and write. During this time, she also fell in love with music and film. She would turn on the radio, sing along to the songs, and dream of one day becoming a singer for Bollywood movies. When Uma Devi was 23, she decided to pursue her dream of singing. So she moved to Mumbai, which was then known as Bombay. Soon after, she got her first break as a playback singer. She would sing the songs for big Bollywood movies, and then the actors in the films would lip-sync on screen. Uma Devi was determined to further her career. One day she knocked on the door of a famous film composer, Nishad Ali. She demanded an audition with him. Otherwise she threatened to throw herself into the ocean, or so the story goes. Nishad agreed to work with her and became her mentor. Nishad introduced Uma Devi to people in the film industry, and she went on to perform as a playback singer in many films like the love triangle melodrama Dard. Eventually, Uma Devi signed a contract with the prolific director, Abdul Rashid Khardar. But her career took a hit after she breached her contract with Abdul by singing for a film with a different director. By this point, Uma Devi was married and ready to grow her family. So she took a step back from singing. In the early 1950s, Uma Devi decided she wanted to return to the industry. She asked her mentor Nishad for help. He suggested Uma Devi try acting. Soon enough, she landed a small role in the film Babool. Babool was another love triangle melodrama featuring two women who were in love with the same man. Uma Devi played a third woman named Tuntun. In the film, Tuntun also tries to win the heart of the leading man, but fails miserably. Uma Devi played Tuntun around the same time that she gained weight. And in the film, her body was part of the punchline. The movie was wildly successful, and after it premiered, Uma began using the name of her character, Tuntun, as a stage name. Over the next several years, Tuntun played many loud and expressive women who could get an audience to howl with laughter. In all of her roles, Tuntun was the comic relief, never the main love interest. Her characters often fell into one of two tropes, either a harried mother with lots of children or an undesirable maiden looking for love. Tuntun was a dark-skinned, fat, funny woman in an industry that had decided that being a desirable woman was supposed to mean being fair, skinny, and meek. She was a deviation from the industry's norm, and she used that to her advantage in her comedy.
SPEAKER_02: Tuntun got audiences to laugh by turning the jokes on herself. She once said, quote, My bulk is my trump card. I don't regret that I am fat. I'm lucky I was born this way. Tuntun appeared in hundreds of films. She became a household name in India, and people even began referring to fat women as Tuntun. By the time Tuntun retired in 1982, she was an iconic Bollywood comedian. Tuntun died in 2003. Over the course of her decades-long career, the media rarely took Tuntun seriously. They wrote her off much like the characters she played. All month we're talking about comedienne's. For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Talk to you on Monday.
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