During a recent interview, the actress Kangana Ranaut exposed the culture of the dynastic power abusers that are also being referred to as the ‘Bollywood Mafia’ by prominent media channels. She described how meticulously the entire business of monopoly operates within Bollywood to an extent where every word that we as an audience that might hear or watch is fabricated by the PR agencies in the industry that prohibits anyone from making any controversial statement that might expose the dark side of B-Town.
However, this is not the first incident when someone from the fraternity has tried to voice out his/her struggle with the culture that is deep-rooted in the glitz and glam industry. Indian film director, writer, editor, and producer Anurag Kashyap, in one of his interviews to CNN Travel, quoted, ‘There are people who want to work for free. But it’s the feudal attitude of dynastic filmmakers and that won’t go … We need more good producers.”
Anurag Kashyap and Kangana Ranaut also had a bitter clash when he tagged a few of the prominent Bollywood personalities such as Prasoon Joshi, Kangana Ranaut, Vivek Agnihotri, etc, as s ‘Troll Army’ on his social media channel. This incident took place during the year 2017, due to an open letter that was written to PM Modi regarding the alleged mob lynchings of minorities along with 48 other left-liberal personalities during that time.
Actress Taapsee Pannu in her interview with India Today quoted, “Even when I do films like Badla, I had more working days or scenes so to say than Mr. Bachchan. He was the hero of the film, I was the antagonist. But the antagonist has more presence in the film than the protagonist. But eventually the film releases, they call it an Amitabh Bachchan film,”. Taapsee has also blamed Nepotism for missing out on some of the projects in Bollywood.
.@taapsee says that people like @taapsee are responsible for painting negative picture about nepotism in Bollywood. Befitting reply to mirror! pic.twitter.com/FvIczcdo83
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Recently, actress Kangana Ranaut called out two of the prominent Bollywood actresses ‘Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhasker as B-Grade actresses’, during the interview against Nepotism. However, the feud between the actresses goes back to Twitter, when Taapsee commented that Kangana requires a ‘double filter’ while speaking, which took an ugly spat between Rangoli Chandel (Kangana’s sister), and Taapsee Pannu.
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What’s intriguing is that now and then there have been concerns raised about the malpractices that do exist in the industry by the artists, however, never before angered people the way the nation is affected at the moment. The tragic demise of the actor Sushant Singh Rajput is certainly the key factor that has further made people emotionally vulnerable to encounter anything that would affect the physical, mental and emotional state of mind of an individual.
Considering the possibility that everyone goes through a different experience in their life, we can not generalize that every newcomer might have faced struggle due to the inappropriate work culture that might be predominant in the industry. Nevertheless, if we are fortunate enough and if we are spared by these difficult work situations, can we use the power and resources to discredit someone else’s struggle with the likewise practices if they are voicing it out?
To conclude, the rebellion is not against the people but against the propagators who are like demi-gods in our contemporary period, who have so meticulously fabricated their image in the world whose reality must be exposed to the world. We can only patiently anticipate whether the process of disinfecting the industry would eventually be sweet or bitter.