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Am I the only one who finds something very wrong in these pictures? Instead of a sporting event, this has become a typical bollywood PR stunt.
http://www.bollywood3.com/Slideshows/Events/C/Bollywood_celebs_at_IPTL/imgpages/image000.html
It's bad enough how bollywood goes nuts with trying to click lots of selfies with any hollywood star coming in...but this is so terribly wrong. Something very sickening about how bollywood stars like aamir, deepika hogged the limelight looking for photo-ops with legends like roger federer and novak djokovic. Aamir was obviously doing PR for his movie PK along with the standard photoshoot of him with his son to put himself in the limelight. Both were less interested in playing tennis or sports, as much as getting as many pictures clicked in a flattering light. Why do our B-town stars need to be part of every high profile event? Are they the only people that matter?? All they care is about being in the limelight, nothing more, nothing less. Nothing wrong with that, if it were a typical movie promotion event. Except this event deserved so much better.
I bet Federer and Novak could have cared less about these people, but did their part of joining in the crowd. These were sporting legends. Look at Sania Mirza, she seemed to be hardly acknowledged over there. Why couldn't we look at the bigger picture and instead of bringing in B-town stars, have had our own sporting legends part of this event? What about also bringing in Saina Nehwal, Sindhu and having them participate ? Let them be in the centre frame...they are world champions in their own right. Even our indian tennis stars didn't get as much screen space as they deserved. Many of them have won medals in international events. Just because Deepika is a better looking model-wise, we put her in the forefront?? What does that say about our own self esteem or the utter lack of respect we give to our sportstars who achieve so much (esp. if not from cricketing field) on their own, battling so much politics, winning medals and yet not acknowledged at an event that should have been their chance to bask in the spotlight?
We ourselves do such a spectacular job of ignoring our own talents, not putting our best image forwards and then wonder how come India as a nation is not respected as much? All we seem to know is BW photo-ops and doing naach gana.
http://www.bollywood3.com/Slideshows/Events/C/Bollywood_celebs_at_IPTL/imgpages/image000.html
It's bad enough how bollywood goes nuts with trying to click lots of selfies with any hollywood star coming in...but this is so terribly wrong. Something very sickening about how bollywood stars like aamir, deepika hogged the limelight looking for photo-ops with legends like roger federer and novak djokovic. Aamir was obviously doing PR for his movie PK along with the standard photoshoot of him with his son to put himself in the limelight. Both were less interested in playing tennis or sports, as much as getting as many pictures clicked in a flattering light. Why do our B-town stars need to be part of every high profile event? Are they the only people that matter?? All they care is about being in the limelight, nothing more, nothing less. Nothing wrong with that, if it were a typical movie promotion event. Except this event deserved so much better.
I bet Federer and Novak could have cared less about these people, but did their part of joining in the crowd. These were sporting legends. Look at Sania Mirza, she seemed to be hardly acknowledged over there. Why couldn't we look at the bigger picture and instead of bringing in B-town stars, have had our own sporting legends part of this event? What about also bringing in Saina Nehwal, Sindhu and having them participate ? Let them be in the centre frame...they are world champions in their own right. Even our indian tennis stars didn't get as much screen space as they deserved. Many of them have won medals in international events. Just because Deepika is a better looking model-wise, we put her in the forefront?? What does that say about our own self esteem or the utter lack of respect we give to our sportstars who achieve so much (esp. if not from cricketing field) on their own, battling so much politics, winning medals and yet not acknowledged at an event that should have been their chance to bask in the spotlight?
We ourselves do such a spectacular job of ignoring our own talents, not putting our best image forwards and then wonder how come India as a nation is not respected as much? All we seem to know is BW photo-ops and doing naach gana.
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