Here is Y Aamir, SRK & Sallu Can Never Pull Off a Meryl Streep @aw

Meryl Streep just won many hearts with her brilliant heartfelt speech at the Golden Globes Awards 2017. The social media has been going crazy over the speech, with the #MerylStreep hashtag trending like for hours. Everyone's raving about it. Everyone's saying that it is the best speech they have heard in months. In fact, if Meryl Streep ever stands for any elections in US, I am sure she's gonna win it easily with her fantastic oratory skills. And here in India, we have people saying that none of our actors have guts to go the Meryl Streep way. I partly agree with that statement there. None of our stars will go the Meryl Streep Way, and for their own welfare, they should never ever attempt to do a Meryl Streep at any award functions.

Before I give my reasons why Meryl Streep giving a speech at Golden Globe Awards can never be replicated at, say, a Filmfare or Zee Cine Awards, let's talk about the speech first if you have the misfortune of missing it out. When she won the Cecil B DeMille award for outstanding contribution to entertainment at the function, in her acceptance speech, she spoke of how something that happened earlier last year, hurt her a lot and it was the biggest thing to happen last year. She was referring to Donald Trump winning the US Presidential elections, without even taking his name. She continued to diss the new President Elect, about how he found it prudent to insult a disabled journalist in a public platform, and yet he has chosen to wield the highest power of the country.

Naturally, there have been discussions on Twitter as to how our own celebs don't have the guts to do a Meryl Streep here. Many of our own Bollywood celebs have been retweeting the speech with captions like Respect', Best Speech Ever' and all that. Even the commoners like us are taking on Bollywood people for not being Meryl Streep.


What Kashyap is trying to hint here is that, when we do have celebs talking about issues on such platforms, they just get to be alienated by their own fraternity who just can't take the guts to stand with the man. But I won't blame the celebs this time. I won't blame them for turning award functions into gush sessions, where they keep throwing fake praises at each other. Because no one expects our celebs to talk about political issues on a filmy platform, right?

I mean who are they? They are just performers who run around trees, dance in the rain and kick 50 goons all at once. How can they even understand politics more than we do? They are supposed to be the privileged ones who live in glass towers with no sense of what's happening around them, and being a celeb, they don't have the constitutional right for the freedom of expression to talk about politics. Right? Like why should they even talk about something they have no clue of? #Sarcasm

Even Meryl Streep was trolled by Trump followers for talking about politics on a movie-based platform. Whatever abuses Meryl got for her speech was on Twitter (where I don't think she even has an account). There is no Trump follower doing a dharna outside her house right now. There is no political party clamouring to ban her movies at this moment, so that she can hold a secret meeting with a Raj Thackeray... oops, I mean Trump for the proper release of her movie.

She is safe there. Our Bollywood celebs aren't.

Not because they can not speak like Meryl Streep, it's because this is India, not US of A.

Shah Rukh Khan had made a joke about politician Amar Singh during an award function a few years ago, and the next day, Amar Singh's party members held protests outside Mannat. And that was all about one little joke. Remember the time when Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan spoke about religious intolerance, and were soon branded traitors by our political parties and asked to go to Pakistan. Shah Rukh Khan's Dilwale had got a fractured release as a result, with several lowkey parties showing their might to stop theatres from screening the movie. And we accused Shah Rukh Khan of being a coward for having a discussion with MNS honcho for the proper release of his upcoming Raees. Well, did he have an option in this country where even if your party is not in power, you can still stall the release of a multi-crore project, because, well, you can.

And I haven't forgotten how Aamir Khans Fanaa never found a release in Gujarat just because he sided with the Narmada Bachao project. And you still feel they should all emulate Meryl Streep. Unless, our society is not mature enough to allow them to, all we are getting stuck with is boring acceptance speeches where stars thank everyone from their watchman to to the director for making them deserve the award.

Our stars are normal human beings like any of us. They have their own insecurities, they have their families to take care of, and they have crores of money riding on them. They just can't have people stopping their movies from being released just because one political party has issues with what they have to say in all their honesty.

Meryl Streep was conferred with the Cecil B. DeMille Achievement Award At the 74th Golden Globe Awards, but a bigger deal was her acceptance speech, where she said everything she had to without saying anything. She took this opportunity to take on Donald Trumps's infamous stance against Immigration in the most powerful way possible and put into words what everyone else was thinking. A applause worthy speech indeed as she made it very clear that "Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. If you kick 'em all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts." Kudos to this talented actress for choosing a platform like this to stand up for something she believed in! That's Meryl Streep for you!

She further talked how broken she was to see this man at a powerful position impersonate a disabled being and actually have people laugh about it. "And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same. She also urged everyone to protect the press as they will need each other, way forward.

She choked as she ended with the late Carrie Fisher's quote - "Take your broken art. Make into art."

I was born and raised and created in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola [Davis] was born in a sharecropper's cabin in South Carolina, and grew up in Central falls, Long Island. Sarah Paulson was raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia, raised in " no, in Ireland, I do believe. And she's here nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania.

Her speech was beyond epic and awesome - and of course that jackass Drumpf would go on a twitter rant about her and the show
Mission accomplished Meryl! The fact that the bullshitter did that to a disabled reporter and did many deplorable things and yet is the president elect is one of the most disgustingly baffling things about US politics 🤢

First of all we Indians are so hypocrite , second of all we worship our public figures starting from BW actors/actresses to politicians to cricketers to babas/yogis. We forget that we, common public are no less than them. They might have some extra talent but that does not mean we have to blindly follow them or no one can speak against them. Every life matters.

To be honest there is hell lot of difference between USA and India...even if Aamir, SRK or Sallu say anything against corrupt system/government and in diplomatic manner..even then there will be negativity...and if they say in support of system/government then they will termed as chamchas and lickers...😆

Originally posted by: Dhaakad

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LOLing hard at all the Bollywood people who will say WHOA RESPECT MERYL STREEP, but won't speak up against Raj Thackeray here.

Haha ...superb

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