Originally posted by: BertieWooster
I am posting a general response to the efforts to stop us from trending against the bigamy track.
I am posting this here because PMs have been sent to IF members asking them not to participate in trending efforts...and because the whole idea of trending came to be on this forum...an FB post was made on an FC almost laughing at our efforts and decrying them...I think the forum-ites deserve to know my response...!
It is extremely unfortunate that our efforts to protest against the bigamy track have gone into Sid's fan page...particularly when the trending efforts were not discussed there nor was participation requested directly..also they have completely missed the point.. they are talking of a legality which is hardly the point of the protest...anyway, the fact is I was the one who fought for Sid when Lady N dragged him into a situation after the FC supported the trend against Avdesh,...as an FC, they should never have done that because they compromised Sid's position with the creatives and his co-actors...similarly, they are once again taking a stand against and decrying the efforts of a good section of the fans, which they should not be doing as an FC...they are only turning even neutral fans away with this kind of an approach...this protest has nothing to do with Sid or his character...I will always remain an admirer of Sid's work...he is a wonderful actor and hope he goes from strength to strength and shines bright in the time to come...but my wishes will be expressed elsewhere and not on his fan page anymore...Twitter and IF afford us enough space for the same!
It is my pov that FCs should not get involved in the efforts of the fans so long as they do not target the actor ...the actors should be insulated from such things because for them, it is a day job and their survival depends on it..!
We may trend against Zee or Lady N or anybody else and then forget all about it. But they have to work with these people once again tomorrow and so, it makes no sense to get involved in any such protests even indirectly.
As for the protest, all of us involved wish the very, very best for Sid and Drashti.
But the protest is not about them. It is about Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani and about Rana Indravadhan Singh and Gayatri Devi.
It is not, and I repeat, not about Sid or DD
Hope people understand and appreciate the same!..