It’s amazing how some people hog the limelight by simply being someone’s friend!
The Amar Singh-Shahrukh Khan controversy has been a talking point lately. My first reaction – Ha ha ha ha ha! Then the Samajwadi biggie shot himself in the foot and made disparaging lewd remarks against Gauri Khan. My reaction – what do you expect from a man like him? Further (and this, guys is the height of it all) some idiotic Samajwadi folks turned up outside Shahrukh’s house and started sloganeering against the Khan. In all of this, Khan’s kids got a real shock and started wailing. Now obviously, it did not go down well with Shahrukh. He came out all guns blazing saying that he was a ‘demented Pathan’ and was madly protective about his family, would do anything to protect then, etc.,etc.
This Amar Singh is a strange character. He is forever part of filmi gossip for all the worng reasons. When Amitabh Bachchan wants to save up on import duty, he gets Singh to explain (to the media and everyone who cares to lend an ear) that Abhishek Bachchan’s birthday gift was his car after all which (for whatever reason) remained parked in the Bachchan residence! And he expected everyone to believe that. Well…
He also gets into certain dangerous liaisons with lissome Bollywood beauties, has lovey-dovey talks with them over the telephone, and remarks ‘meri abhinetriyon se achchi jaan pehchaan hai’. Haan haan aapki baat hum samajhte hain.
But what attracts men like him to Bollywood? We have ample examples of politicians hobnobbing with industry biggies in both reel and real life. Amar Singh is the epitome of the wily politician on the prowl in Dreamland. And whom does he have for company? The Bachchans, no less. Being enveloped in controversy is routine for him. What makes me curious about the guy is his clout in the industry. It also makes me scared.
If the industry is somehow controlled (maybe not directly) by people like him, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the way ahead for the industry. Why can’t the industry rid itself of someone like him and get on with making ‘good’ films? I seriously think we need to think beyond ‘certain fixities and their children, wives, daughters-in-law’ in Bollywood and move on. There’s simply too much talent lying around.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Oh no. Not again Roshni. M dead tired of all this Big B-Amar Singh – King Khan talks.~X(~X(:-t:-@:-ss
Roshini Ji. You have a right for expressing ur opinions but seems that u are obsessed with this anti Bacchans disease…pls write abt some thing else. You have made the same point many many times over.
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The real problem is the press, not the film industry. It is the press which gives coverage to such spiders(Amar Singh) trying to be spiderman of the Mumbai cinema.So the less the press talks about this man, the better things will get for the Industry. Why don’t the scribes actually go and talk to real guys who work in the Film Industry? It is the press that brings in political biases into everything.