Originally posted by: Japonica
Hi Bashers all! 🤗
Good to see you all!
Gul ne kya gul khilaye, what a saga this off-screen drama has become!
50 shades of bashing
50 shades of protest
50 shades of grieving
50 shades of anger
50 shades of duplicity
50 shades of betrayal
50 shades of sordid politics
50 shades of exhaustion
50 shades of the blame-game
50 shades of greed
50 shades of profit making
50 shades of equivocation
50, no, 100 shades of exploitation
The shades are endless.
Whatever be the outcome of all this, and however naive or clever (depending on how you view it), BS's actions have opened the door on the Augean Stables called the Indian entertianment. I'm not saying he is the Hercules who will clean them, I hasten to clarify, should someone think that I am so hormonally disturbed that I can delude myself so. Not in the least.
He's a great guy, but he's not a hero nor does he seem to want to be one. But he has been brave by sticking his head over the parapet.
All I could hear in the interview was someone who had given his best and all for the show, enjoyed doing it, learnt from it but felt there was nothing more he could give. All he wanted was to be let off the ferret wheel to be himself for more than 2/3 waking hours a day as the rest of the time he was being ASR, who he is not.
What his actions, most probably, unintentionally have done is to reveal the sordid underbelly of the industry. Contracts that bind people to unfair pay, unfair working conditions, worse shows made only with the profit in sight. Acting is a creative skill not like making toothbrushes which needs other kinds of skills- treating the former as the latter is what the PH and the Channel seem to be doing.
They have taken audiences for granted, an unseen brain-dead mass which wiill lap up any rubbish they dish out. They have got away for so long insulting intelligence of the actors and the audience.
Underlying all this protest and angst is a strong sense of outrage against the exploitation of both the actors and the audience.
Hope we the the audience bring the industry to its heels and force them to bring in an ethical value to it.
Whether BS comes back or not, or the show folds or not, I hope this will see the beginning of a cleaning up of the industry where the odds are so tilted in favour of the channels and the PHs, that both actors and viewers are left helpless in the face of anything that either chooses to do.
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