Stop being a competitive rat
I have been away from Mumbai and the hustle bustle of the film industry for almost two weeks now and yet there is a need to keep track of the goings on in filmdom. I was told that I Hate Luv Storys has done fairly well. Good for them and good for us. Then on a news channel I saw a story about Imran Khan and Ranbir Kapoor and how they
were best friends and how one had the better of the other in the beginning but now Imran Khan had a hit and it was a fight to be the best among friends. Tch Tch Tch! There they go again, I thought.
What it is about the media that loves a fight between two stars as they fight for the number one place. I have heard this so often. Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan and now Ranbir and Imran. What is funny is that I don’t even know what this race is that is going on!!
It’s just a record of hits and flops, not talent. A hit or a flop is wrongly conceived as the work of an actor and actor alone. Not true. There is a writer, a director, a music director, a producer, an action composer, a choreographer, a background score composer and so many more people that make a film successful then what is this rat race between actors? Lagaan does not work without Aamir but it does not work without Ashutosh either. Dilwale can’t work without Shah Rukh or Aditya Chopra too. This race between stars is nonsense. Stars are just the face of the work called a film. To think that they can be in a race is fun but to think that they have in their power anything to do about the race is balderdash. Funnier still, most of the stars believe the media and believe in the race and start to run blinkerless. Phew! Have not they heard that even if you win the rat race you are still a rat!!
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