I dont know why twitterattis and many others are protesting in SSR's case against KJo, but from my end, my beef with KJo is mostly revolved around how KJo, over the period through his shitty show KWK, made the bitchiness, ugliness, snide remarks, groupism and insults etc. made regular part of Showbiz. Previously the industry used to have decent talk shows, like SG one, boring, but thoughtful and definitely NOT harmful.
KJo strategically promoted few ideas through this show - Like if you want to be part of gossips, whom to reach out to.... If you want favours, whom to reach out to....the idea of being proud to be bitchy in the name of being 'real'...... promoting rumours out of nothing...... or the idea of who are the 'elite' ones and who are not....... And watching those, like regular audiences, even outsider strugglers DO get impacted..... people do scan themselves only to see how they do not fit to this weird chatty circle if they don't do certain things..... And whoever can get down to their level to feel 'inclusive', they get successful or at least hyped around, (e.g. Sid Malhotra, Karthik, Ayushman now) and whoever does not, are continued to remain a struggler and much less hyped (SSR, RKR, MB)....... KJo has been a Godfather to many, including outsiders, but when it's to a point that if those outsiders feel obligated to remain under his wings, that's not mentorship, that's Mafia-ism.
KJo single-handedly established the idea that whoever is not part of his fake mean 'elite' circle, is considered outsider and given partial treatment. Ok fine, he is the owner/creator of that group and can do whatever he wants, but when you do that to everyone who don't want to be part of your shitty group, that becomes bullying/ganging up. That would be a problem to me.
KJo, in the name of being real, has done enough damage to the Movie industry in last 30 yrs, hope he spares it now.
Edited by prerna4rishav - 5 years ago
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