Originally posted by: OsageThing310
What do you mean by that? 
please explain more in details!!!!
Indian popular culture uplifts men who are seen as "divisive" - angry, bold, fighting all the time, to fool fans who see these avatars onscreen to support them no matter what. A lot of these fans are younger men, who spend most of their days struggling for work or difficult school exams, and so they see these images as an escape from reality. It is very difficult to be poor and the expected primary earning members.
However this hyper-masculinized image implants many insecurities and problematic views in people ie hitting women, being cruel to people, disobeying laws/rules. What I mean is that Salman GAINED fans for his abusive treatment of women, rather than even being criticized, forget being turned away from society.
Similarly, when people found out Sanjay Dutt was dating the biggest star then, Madhuri, they rallied around him, even though Sanjay's wife was dying of cancer and Sanjay was getting a lot of rumors about illegal involvement.
The shock of what eventually happened becoming a terrorist attack (!!) made Madhuri come to her senses and break up with him, and Sanjay went to jail. But otherwise, the image of a man involved in shady practices to get anything he wanted, was upheld by his fans.
Ranbir offscreen and onscreen in Animal are different. Obviously. But many fans watching these kinds of movies do not care, and actually take the messages portrayed by the movies as fact.
This is why Satyajit Ray in particular always made films about poverty, hoping to get Indians to sympathize with the conditions they would be seeing on screen.
Aishwarya has stood tall against the most popular man in Bollywood, and his fans who easily turned on her for angering their 'bhai'.
Edited by VimalPanMasala - 2 years ago
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