A break from the Bachchans
My last post on PFC had a number of responders calling me everything from a copy-cat to a poseur who has ripped off portions of Madhava Prasad’s book and created a rather itsy-bitsy write-up for the heck of it. Thanks everyone. I only needed to be told all this. I know jackshit about films, I only blabber incoherently, rave and rant. Well…
I do not feel the need to justify my post, nor the fact that I had been reading Madhava Prasad’s book. Yes, I had been so what? I learnt from the book. I learnt and I wrote what I felt, is there a problem? Doesn’t each person’s creative expression involve her emotions, feelings, and learnings? Take Oz’s post on Black Friday, for instance. His anguish is palpable. He is angry and it shows. And why shouldn’t it? Isn’t the fact that only moolah matters to distributors and producers damn true?
So here’s my take on an incident I read about on one of the many news channels recently (I think it was CNN-IBN). The Big B, the superstar of the millennium, the greatest actor ever born, etc., etc., apparently threw a tantrum at a hotel in Kolkata over a suite that he preferred. The man wanted the best and he made it very very clear. Fair enough. After all he’s the Big B (more of a Bugger B), father of Junior B, Aby’s Baby, etc., etc., would-be father-in-law to the (former) most beautiful woman in the world, A-list Bollywood actress, best friends to Amar-Mulayam Singh, Anil Ambani and so on and so forth. So obviously, Bachchan would not settle for the second best, not even to the director of the film (it was probably Rituporno Ghosh). Great stuff! Kudos! Way to go! However, what is mind-boggling is the fact that a leading TV news channel decides to carry it as news on prime time television.
Here’s another gem. Same channel, around the same time. Priyanka Chopra’s kid brother wanted the Men in Blue to sign on his T-shirt. The doting good didi went out of her way to accomplish the good deed and go the cricketers to sign her bro’s T-shirt. Again bold, headline news.
India just loves its stars. Not only stars, we salivate on their sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, daughters-in-law, and would-be daughters-in-law. The whole act is so nonchalant, shameless and blatant that one could blanche at it.
What I would like the media to do? Give the Bachchans, their extended family, coterie, and friends a break. Rather we should be asking the Bachchans to give India a break. Come on, the man’s gone bonkers, he’s been issuing silly repartees to a man 20 years his junior. He’s been saying things like Aishwarya Rai is ‘domesticated’. As if she’s a cow, and not a mature, successful woman. Either he is a regressive antique or he needs to brush up his vocabulary. Then there is the whole farcical turn about their visits to God-knows-how-many temples. Is there anyone who’s interested in whether Bachchan wore his slippers on his way to Siddhivinayak or not? Or whether Abhishek would be in mortal danger if he marries the manglik Aishwarya?
I think we need a break. From the Bachchans.
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Well if its a bachchan article, dont read it..if they are on tv..switch the channel…and regarding the kolkatta incident…that was a load of lies…8-|
Quite right, Roshni. I have been thinking the same things lately. I’ve never been a fan of Bacchan, but over the past couple of years, there’s just too much of him everywhere. Can’t seem to avoid the man, his stupid comments, his face peering down from hoardings selling every possible product that money can buy, his awful wife, their dumb children… WE NEED A BREAK!!!
Well said and well posted, Roshni. Take a bow.
true. so true.
totally agree with u…….
hmm…agree. n thts why i first thought that i should not read ur post. anything that gt something to do with bachchan or shah rukh khan, i just avoid that. there r here, there, everywhere. not any more post again saying the same things plZZZZ!!!
@Roshni…u said u dont need to justify anything. But then why r u trying to justify??? no need for that.
i think theres a thin line between getting bored off and plain being against the man…(remember Omkara’s 1st line ;))
what do u expect of the media people? most people are intrested in Abhishek-Aishwarya marriage/views of AB on ‘Don’-the chase begins + ‘KBC-srk’…
they wld obviously try to build up on a prospective controversy between SRK and AB, 2 of the most prolific+famous actors/stars at cold war… i think that is ‘media dream come true’. from what i get Media here is not even one-tenth of what Hollywood faces/has.
also what is wrong if AB tells the media what they want to hear, whats wrong if he replies to what the media asks…he probably still is the most articulate/diplomatic man in the bolly(atleast of the top of my mind)
i am not saying that he is good or bad. that is not the point of my comment. my point is that he still is regarded pretty highly by most indians(i think even that is exaggerated, probably just most urban indians, and … maybe somewhere interiors of UP etc? but shit thats not the point i was trying to make) as a human being/actor…
agreed that u need a break, i need a break,everyone needs a break from it and blah blah but that doesnt mean that its wrong that media keeps harping on about him…
i mean most ppl still like it(in fact, frankly i LOVE all that gossip stuff as well :”>).
just what is irritating about AB is his advvertisments, i think if they reduce, u know all those Parker/Dabur/Navratna etc.
SUMMARY OF MY COMMENT:
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
omg 1st emoticon in my comment meant ;) and 2nd :”>
yeah right freedom of speech…freedom from the Bachchans. But i still can’t digest the fact that he called Aishwarya ‘domesticated’. Come on old man! Grow up!
Yup, BIg B can be seen everywhere peddling every product, save sanitary napkins and condoms……
>>Come on old man! Grow up!
=))
rbehemoth…m all for gossip n spice from bollywood. But no boring lecturebaazi kind of stuff. No more rona-dhona-pati parmeshawra…K3G hai na uske liye. Get us soem real juice ya.
Roshni:
Domesticated : as adjective brings two meeanings
(1) Converted or adapted to domestic use
(2) Accustomed to home life
Now no human will beleive that Amitabh Bachchan, being a humanbeing, will understand Aishwarya Rai as a wild animal who could be domesticated. so first meaning is not usable in this case.
and second meaning brings no harmful or objectionable meanings.
Madhuri Dixit, used to say she is Gharelu girl. Urmila Martondkar repeatedily says same thing.
and above all if Aishwarya Rai has no problem in the using of that word, then why you should object? He has not used it for whole female class? or you take it attack on women?
Its not necessary that old man, Amitabh Bachchan (65+) will be having similar thought process as anyone who has yet to touch 30, may think.
Its all going little towards extremism. Disliking is one thing but to hold responsible someone for everything does not come under rational approach.
sorry:(
Roshni:
I dont need to explain what ‘domesticated’ mean as RK seems to have already done it.I dont understand whats wrong with the ‘word’?Fine…maybe it doesnt sound right–whats with the angst,the frustration against the Bachchans?
Yeah–they are in the news…so what?You dont like it–switch the channel,turn the page or simply shut up.
About the hotel incident–know anything about’trp’ ratings?How authentic is the story?
Hez got friends–and why does it bother you?Just coz his friends are high profile–you rant about it.
Silly repartees to his junior–again..why cannot he?He is responding to sillier stuff–he chooses to do so.Why shud it bother you?
You seem to have an inherent dislike for the Bachchans.Why dont you give them a break?
Or was this write-up s’posed to trigger a flood of mails–debating whoz right and whoz wrong?Mind you,thats not the benchmark for a good article.
Know what–simply grow up.
Ravi
Hate to say it but I gotta agree with RK… its not like we didn’t spend bloody months on end hearing about “TomKat” and their kid, or “Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie” (can’t spell Brandeglina?) or Brittany Spears and her liasons/marriages/divorces…
That’s the nature of entertainment media. They focus less on the technical and artistic side of cinema and more on the controversial/popular side.
The bigger the star, the more talk will be had about them.
I take the example of Akshaye Khanna, one of the most talented, versatile actors in India. But he doesn’t keep himself in the media too much and his overall popularity suffers. In the overseas you’ll come across many who think he’s a fantastic, versatile performer and yet how big is the “craze” when one of his films comes out?
Filmmaking is a business. And star power sells.
Facts we gotta get used to.
if you want a break from bacchans… then y u talkin about him???
agree with tony
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The same article in IBN-Live.com, states Rituporno Ghosh saying that it is a false news & Mr. Bachchan is a gentlemen. Read the ful article before to conclude & also its the media which does this for some TRP’s or clicks & not Big B asking for it., http://www.ibnlive.com/news/big-b-throws-tantrum-for-hotel-room/36452-8.html
I think we need a break from the media in regards to the way they cover entertainment news.
Shravan
” The same article in IBN-Live.com, states Rituporno Ghosh saying that it is a false news & Mr. Bachchan is a gentlemen.”
I can’t believe that you are expecting us to believe all this diplomatic shit spoken by these celebs?
If the Bachchans visit ‘God knows how many temples’ and the media chooses to follow them there too, it’s not the Bachchans’ fault. Right?
for me he never existed as an actor!!!
Romuz: And brother!
God made Adam and Eve and when God thought that
these two two species, belonging to same and yet
different class will be having lot many clashes
and there should be a class, which is beyond any
bias, having no prejudice, perfect balanced, who
will be knowing almost all about all in the
world, and this class will be best in giving
judgement. And In Kalyug, God dropped you in that class. Welcome Sir!
Supereme Court is going to have vacancy for the
CJ. Are you available Sir? Then once you said
from that chair, Law will Hang Amitabh Bachchan
for entering in the acting, where he knows not
even ABCD, and being non actor he dared to join
film indistry. So bad act even like a crime.
Hang him till he start crying I will not act anymore:)
Or if you run a workshop for teaching acting, we
all people of India can force Amitabh Bachchan to
attend your School Of Acting, Then he will surely
start knowing how to act!:d
Roshni,
The headlines being hogged by ABs proves that all this hero worship and being an icon is all hogwash and a big congame and disproves the saying media is the message-infact media is the mess..
hats off 2 u Roshni “The most brilliant post” i have ever read in my life. I love 2 hate the Bachchans.