Thursday, March 17, 2005

Shakti Stin(g)ks

Read this on rediff today and this is what I had to say in response.


"Page 3" is a movie from Madhur Bhandarkar a notable director from the Bollywood. Why do you think he had depicted a similar show in his movie, if the entire "Casting Couch" episode is falsified? He himself is a Director and one from the Bollywood bigwigs. You think he has just worked upon his imagination here?
No, the entire thing has been shown very correctly and truly, infact I would say he was “Inspired” by the growing sexual favoritism concept in Bollywood.
The thought of broadcasting this "Casting Couch" event was to arouse consciousness among the general public and to help put a brake on this shameless growing deed in the Bollywood Industry and not to rip off the Shakti’s image.
You had said that it's an internal private matter then will you argue that a similar case in IAF where three girls had reported charges against their supervisor of asking sexual favors to qualify them in their exam, as an internal private matter and dismiss the case?
Do you realize how many talented actors/actress are affected by this illicit favors? Do you realize why you see so much talents on the stage actors but still you don’t see them make it to Bollywood?
Adultery practices,or soliciting sexual favours in any industry or establishment,politics, bureaucrats or even at private level make a news because not acceptable practices.Social and cultural pressures somehow drive us away from indulging in.And that is how society gets going. But the vital question remains-should not public at large be aware of what all is going on?
Now lets take this to another level and replace Bollywood aspirants to Job aspirants, and the whole scene gets murkier. This may not be a legal issue.. so the police is not what these bigwigs are scared of. These guys are not too worried abt their family either, so the only way to stop these immoral acts( hoping that all these supporters of Shakti, at least find the issue immoral), is by showing them to the world.. And if the fear of a lurking camera is what scares them, then WAY to go India TV, the public is with you, and Damn to that word called privacy

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