The Hypocritical Bollywood!

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”.