Dark side of Bollywood!!!

 

Dark side of Bollywood!

The silences over the developments of SSR’s case as well as silence over the insulting and harassing on Kangana Ranaut reflect the real dark side of Bollywood.

 

Sushant Singh Rajput's unexpected demise has left Bollywood and his followers in dire shock. The actor was found dead at his residence on June 14, 2020. Although tributes have been pouring in for the late actor, many have raised eyebrows at his death being ruled a suicide, along with claims about his mental health. One such celebrity is India's National Award-winning actor Kangana Ranaut, who has referred to as out Bollywood bigwigs for no longer appreciating SSR’s body of work.

Kangana Ranaut has long criticised the industry for being 'hypocrotica' and even raised hackles in 2017 when she labeled Karan Johar as the flag-bearer of nepotism in Bollywood. In a current video shared via her crew on Twitter, Ranaut says, “Although he has acted in some superb movies like Kai Po Che! and Chhichhore, why wasn’t he given any awards? If a wasteful movie like Gully Boy ought to win so many awards, why couldn’t SSR be given any for the great films he worked in?” She adds, “He was handled like a leftover. In his interviews where he is begging the target audience to see his film because he fears being ousted via his own industry.” Taking into account SSR’s achievements, which includes his Stanford scholarship, Kangana Ranaut goes on to query how a mentally charged individual like him ought to have been so vulnerable that he took his own life? She then slams the tradition of blind items, revealing that she also obtained calls from people who advised her not to take her personal life as if she was suicidal. "Why are they inserting that thinking into my head? Where is all that coming from?" questions the starlet. The actor believes that SSR was treated poorly and banned in Bollywood due to the fact that he was an outsider and didn’t have any godfather. Corroborating with Kangana Ranaut's belief, a screenshot of SSR 's response to his followers in which he factors out the identical has long gone viral given that his death. “SSR  began to agree with in all those voices that puzzled his self-worth as an actor,” stated Kangana Ranaut. She also accused journalists for tainting the actor’s image with news articles about his alleged addiction. “Sanjay Dutt’s addiction is regarded as cute, however you write baseless articles that are meant to damage SSR  about his so-called addictions?”

 

Actor Saif Ali Khan has also expressed anger towards the movie industry’s surprising outpouring of love for the late actor. He relayed how a day of silence would have been more terrific than the ‘hypocrisy’ of pretending to care. In an interview with The Times of India, Khan said, “It seems to me that humans are somewhere gaining some mileage from this terrible fellow’s tragedy, you know. Many are speaking rubbish in this nonstop sort of barrage on social media and it’s simply embarrassing, really." The Tanhaji star added, “Out of respect for SSR’s tragedy, perhaps a day of silence or introspection would be a little more becoming than this outpouring of love from people who needless to say didn’t care about him. And people who famously don’t care about anybody else." Khan went on to provide an explanation for how the pretense of caring for SSR was an ‘insult’ to the latter. “I mean, we don’t care about anybody. You know, it’s a very cutthroat line of work. But to pretended  that you do care is like the ultimate hypocrisy and I think that’s an insult to the dead." Director Shekhar Kapur, who was due to work with SSR on his movie Paani, also pointed out how some people had let SSR down.  He tweeted, "I knew the pain you have been going through. I knew the story of the people that let you down so terrible that you would weep on my shoulders. I want I was around the last six months. I wish you had reached out to me. What happened to you was their Karma. Not yours." Director Anubhav Sinha also tweeted addressing the ‘Bollywood privilege club,' asking them to "sit down and think hard tonight.” He added, “Now do not ask me to elaborate any further.” Film-maker Hansal Mehta also tweeted, "There are many younger 'outsiders' in this industry. Remember this – there are establishments that will make you experience like the subsequent massive thing when they want you. They will drop you and mock you as quickly as you falter. Do not fall for the trap. The ones that rejoice you will celebrate your downfall some time later. Success and failure are transient. You are not." Ranvir Shorey had more to say about "inherited privilege" and how it works to create power centres which he calls "gatekeepers of Bollywood."In his tweet, he said, "It wouldn’t be truthful to blame any individual for a step that he took himself. He was enjoying a high stakes game, the place where it’s win or lose it all. But something has to be said about the self-appointed ‘gatekeepers of Bollywood’. "Producer Nikhil Dwivedi, on the other hand, additionally shared a strongly-worded tweet on Sunday denouncing claims of the "high and mighty who must have kept in contact with SSR." His tweet addressed Karan Johar, in accordance to NDTV, considering the fact that the producer had posted a lengthy note on Instagram, blaming himself for not checking in with SSR  the previous year.

The silences over the trends of SSR’s case as well as silence over the insulting and harassing on Kangana Ranaut reflect the actual dark facet of Bollywood. "At times our industry's hypocrisy gets to me. High and mighty announcing they must have kept in touch with SSR,  come on, you didn't! And it's due to the fact his profession dipped. Are you in touch with Imran Khan, Abhay Deol and others? No! But you had been when they have been doing well!" remarked Dwivedi.

---AGENCIES