In total awe of all things Hollywood
Everybody is somebody’s fool, said Shakespeare, I think, and even if he did not it sounds like something he would have said. Of
course what he meant was more in terms of love. There is always someone you love more than he or she loves you and there is always somebody you love less than he or she loves you.
So it is with showbiz. There is always someone who wants to be where you are and someone where you want to be.
The television actor makes more money doing regional films and the regional film actor wants to be the Bollywood actor and the Bollywood actor wants to be the Hollywood actor. Everyone wants to be in greener pastures.
Fair enough you say. That is the way of all human beings but there is something that I don’t get and that is the attention we give to the Hollywood actor when he or she decides to make a trip to India.
Is it that we still revere the West and their celebrities so much that we almost feel we are going to become gold just by touching gold?
The Oscars have us salivating and even Pamela Anderson — that no Hollywood A-lister would cast — becomes big news here. Anil Kapoor, who would never make a television appearance here, decides to do 24 for American television.
Respect is great, awe is not. They have talent but so do we. They have the budgets we don’t. That is the only difference. John Travolta is right when he says that Bollywood does not need Hollywood.
A lesson to learn from the John Woos and the Ang Lees of the world. We will only be world class when we think we are world class. It’s in the mind. If we think we are splashing about in the children’s pool, we will remain there.
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