For years and years, we have been
living with a deceptive interpretation of the Bollywood Industry that it is a
big happy family which helps each other grow for the better. We got swayed by
the emotions portrayed by them onscreen and started to believe that they are
stars in real life as well, thanks to the fantastic work of eyewash done by
their PR Machinery. This went on for generations until a couple of years ago,
that people started to notice the hidden double standards of this industry. The
public started understanding that most of these people from the same fraternity
do not practice what they preach and more recently another hypocrisy that came
to light was a showcase of Selective Social Activism and Outrage. These
so-called celebs cleverly and selfishly choose what they want to opine on or
even strongly stand for. They try to play with the emotions of people
at the behest of their professional PR Agencies who make it look genuine and
real.
However, the biggest Hypocrisy
has just unveiled due to the current unfortunate circumstances of the death of
a young, promising, intelligent and uber-talented superstar, Sushant Singh Rajput. It's
been more than 2 months of relentless efforts of millions of people who came
together to fight for SSR and demand a fair CBI Probe. Finally, we made it
happen as the highest court of the country sealed the same with their approval
stamp and now CBI has taken over the investigation. The credit for that goes to
the undying efforts of the millions of people all across the globe along with
few people who became the voice of the public like Arnab Goswami & Team
Republic, Dr. Subramanian Swamy, Ishkaran Bhandari, Kangana Ranaut and a couple
of other people close to SSR. What’s difficult to miss here is, how this long
struggle leading to CBI Probe helped unleash the hypocrite side of Bollywood.
Barring a few genuine people from the Industry no one joined the People’s
campaign to get justice for SSR, who was from their fraternity.
Their hypocrisy is more
noticeable now due to a comparison that can be drawn from a very recent global
campaign of Justice for George Floyd. So many celebs from the Indian Film
industry in no time raised their voices and stood up for him and the racial
discrimination in the United States. We saw them posting using hashtags like
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, #BlackLivesMatter, etc. and pouring out all the empathy
they could. I don’t mind that they raise their voices for such campaigns,
rather it’s highly appreciated since they influence a lot of people across the
globe, so I do understand that it’s important too. However, the problem arises
when you see them pouring their heart out for this cause but staying shush on
SSR’s untimely and mysterious demise. SSR was from their own country and a
colleague/co-worker of many, yet why are they all drop dead silent?
A few people from Bollywood who
recently joined the campaign, woke up presumably after seeing what happened to
the Sadak 2 movie Trailer. It's out of fear of having to experience the same in the
future that they chose to finally join the campaign, but little do they know
that the public is not foolish enough to fall for their planned selfish
motives. The response that Sadak 2 trailer received from the people was a
representation of the “Power of the Common Man” which was like a slap on their
faces. It’s also a lesson for not only Bollywood but also the Political Parties
and the Law & Order System that if the common man can make them who they
are, then the same common man can break them too, hence they should not make
the mistake of underestimating us.
I'm just amazed that most of
these celebrities, who posted for Black Lives Matter, in reality, endorse N
number of beauty products that claim to change your skin color. These variants
have different names like skin brightening, whitening, fairness, skin
correcting and what not kind of creams, which do nothing permanent because they
just give you an instantaneous or momentary transformation in skin color but
never change it completely. And so many of these celebs, have undergone
cosmetic surgeries themselves to change their facial structures and also undergone
permanent skin whitening treatments. If you see the “THEN & NOW” pictures
of some of these stars like Kajol, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Shilpa
Shetty, Bipasha Basu, Rekha and many more like them, it's evident that they
have undergone a huge transformation in skin color and appearance. This would
help you clearly understand the level of “Hypocrisy” in their statements.
Instead of fighting for issues in
the West, they need to end these double standards and concentrate on issues in
their own country. Speak up on the similar social evils still prevalent in our society
like perceptions about skin color or physical appearance. No one talks about
prejudices related to matrimonial postings wherein 90% of the posts from the
Bride Wanted section, ask for a “FAIR”, beautiful, slim and homely girl. Hardly
any post talks about real traits like the level of education, career, moral
values, intellectualism, etc. And to make things worse these celebs go ahead
and change their physical appearance and skin color to the same standards which
are so desirable for many. So how on earth can they preach about Racism and
Bias against darker skin complexions when they got rid of their natural skin
color and appearance that God gifted them at birth?
These so-called celebs have all
the time in the world to post nonsensical videos of stupid challenges or life
updates in general, but their social media accounts couldn’t fit in a single
message of empathy and justice for SSR. They too can see how the Mumbai Police
& Maharashtra Government, working hand in hand, botched up the entire case.
However, they chose to remain silent because the internal connections between
Bollywood & Mumbai Police are well known to everyone. The biggest proof for
that is the event held every year in honor of the Mumbai Police called “Umang”
in which all the big celebs take part and perform. There are a few questions
related to this that boggle my mind:
1.
Do these
celebs not consider any other police force in our country competent enough or
worthy of praise and accolades?
2.
When they
travel to other cities in India, is it the Mumbai police that accompanies and
protects them everywhere, or the police of that city?
3.
And why
not Maharashtra police force as a whole but just Mumbai Police?
4.
Are they
trying to say that Mumbai Police is a class apart, that they can't be compared
to any other police force in our country?
5.
Why not a similar enthusiasm for the Armed
forces and other government wings, who are selflessly working for the
betterment of our country?
6.
Why the
partiality and divide?
I'm sure they would never have a
suitable and fair explanation for this because everybody knows they are a part
of a very closely-knit nexus operated by the underworld and the Bollywood
Mafia. That is the reason why despite knowing about all the vices of the
industry be it Drugs, Exploitation of New & Young
talent aka Casting Couch, Nepotism to name a few, nothing
surfaces as there is a solid backup to shield them all. So many actors have
been involved in big crimes, but they either get acquitted from their cases or
are given mild punishments that too with N number of bails or paroles. Would it be the
same for the common man? The answer is a big fat NO…and these celebs despite
knowing the truth don’t raise an alarm on such issues. Very conveniently they
ignore it just to be in the good books of the top guns, so as to survive and co-exist,
even if it is at the cost of someone's life.
Everything these Celebs do is
nothing but a well-planned move by their PR agencies to eyewash the public.
They would do anything to promote their movies before release and we have
witnessed many such tactics. To cite a few examples, one being Deepika
Padukone’s standing in solidarity with the JNU students while she was in Delhi
to promote her upcoming movie Chhapaak. Would she have done it otherwise, well I don't think so. Other one, is holding placards for some
serious issues or mishaps in the country but that too is for a selective few cases they
choose to associate with. I haven't seen a single placard raising questions
about any of the vices in the Film Industry or even for issues like
movies/songs/music videos showing women as sexual objects or bimbos. No one
raises these hard-hitting questions except one or two well-established people
from the industry. And, talking about the current scenario, why are they dead
silent in SSR’s case when people from all across the world have come together.
Where are the placards, tweets, Instagram posts now?
This “chalta hai” and “hota rehta
hai” attitude in our country has ruined many lives and needs to be dealt with
utmost seriousness. The reason these celebs enjoy their name & fame is
because of us as we have made them this successful, or they would all be still struggling. It’s high time we remove the blindfold and use our brains
before blindly following any of these. I know this change won't happen
overnight but every effort of change in thought process counts, going by the saying ‘Rome wasn’t
built in a day’. It’s high time we stop these celebrities from be-fooling us so that we support the right people who are not only talented but also genuine human beings.
Let's stop wasting our hard earned money on movies or events which in reality
are no good for our society. Enough is enough, so let’s wake up and take charge
of our country and not get influenced by these “Impostors”.
