I agree with you that Karan Johar has every right to work with whoever he wants. He owns a private company and he can cast whoever he wants. I would even say the same thing about star "parents", if they want to launch their kids then no wrong in that, every parent want the best for their child.
BUT, what's WRONG is the POLITICS these insiders/Bollywood mafia/big production houses play against these poor outsiders. Snatching movies from these outsiders through their Bollywood contacts.. that is what is really immoral and wrong.
Alia was very bad in her debut movie, SOTY but still got movies like Highway after that. How? Because, Karan made Imtiaz cast Alia in it. Imtiaz himself said so that he didn't want to cast Alia in Highway and he had other actresses in mind. There are many other movies where Alia wasn't the first choice but through her contacts with Kjo, they "convinced" those directors to cast Alia instead of other actresses. Alia is not a bad actress but it is also true that she snatched several projects from her contemporaries.
Tapsee was supposed to star in this film(I forgot the name) with Kartik and Bhoomi but was later replaced with Ananya Pandey out of nowhere. How? Through Kjo!
There were many blind articles about Sushant to malign his image...presenting him as a womanizer, arrogant, alcoholic, pervert, woman abuser and what not! And, you can clearly see from his interviews, the way his colleagues talks about him that none of those blind articles were true. Who do thing planted those articles against him?
These are some of the reasons why Kjo and the star kids are getting all the criticism. It is because of THIS dirty politics they play with these outsiders...from humiliating them to snatching their projects to spreading false articles to malign their image....THIS is the reason why they are getting so much backlash.
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