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Well, what I read through ( it would fill up next two whole pages if I sit and quote 😆 ), the gist that i got is this: Bollywood stars get written about. And tellwood stars get people to write about them.
True. And there lies the difference. And that is all I am trying to say. Telly stars put in 4 times the hard work, with perhaps 10th of the money, and today if they have any takers because people want to know about them.
SRK was my first tele star craze when I was in school. I wanted to find out everything that I could about him. But there was no one, absolutely no one who would write about the tele stars then. SRK did not give interviews because no one would write about him, and they did not until Deewana happened. No one was interested in Gauri Khan, until Darr became a household name.Perhaps the most popular ones did get written about here and there, but no one really went after them, barring a few one off interviews doordarshan would air about them. Parmeet Sethi was perhaps the most handsome and talented actor ever on Indian TV, but he came at a time when though television regularly dealt with adult subjects and real life characters, they were not considered a news material.That is why today's generation knows absolutely nothing about some great television actors of the past. Yet Bollywood was all over the media and still is. Inspite of the huge coverage they get, these bollystars still do things in public that would put so many to shame.
As for tele stars, if they don't project themselves,they simply stop existing in the public memory once the serial slides from a trp chart. Also, today's tele stars have become media savvy, they have started adopting the tricks that till date was used only by the bolly stars. I have seen the kind of craze Sharad Kelkar can have in parts of US, or a Hiten Gauri pair can have. In fact, today, some of the stars have almost as parallel a popularity as a good bolly stars. Some stars will always be more popular than others. Abhishek will draw more crowd anyday than a Fardeen Khan,SRK will make a head away when it comes to comparison with any star today. So comparing them to the telly stars is like comparing apples to oranges.
Tele stars do not compare themselves to any bolly star. They have simply carved a niche for themselves. They prat, they preen, the patter, they cling because there is someone who is going to print about it.
For ages the 'wood' industry all over the world made a line popular ' any publicity is good publicity'. Tele stars have realised it and now they are making the full use of it.
True. And there lies the difference. And that is all I am trying to say. Telly stars put in 4 times the hard work, with perhaps 10th of the money, and today if they have any takers because people want to know about them.
SRK was my first tele star craze when I was in school. I wanted to find out everything that I could about him. But there was no one, absolutely no one who would write about the tele stars then. SRK did not give interviews because no one would write about him, and they did not until Deewana happened. No one was interested in Gauri Khan, until Darr became a household name.Perhaps the most popular ones did get written about here and there, but no one really went after them, barring a few one off interviews doordarshan would air about them. Parmeet Sethi was perhaps the most handsome and talented actor ever on Indian TV, but he came at a time when though television regularly dealt with adult subjects and real life characters, they were not considered a news material.That is why today's generation knows absolutely nothing about some great television actors of the past. Yet Bollywood was all over the media and still is. Inspite of the huge coverage they get, these bollystars still do things in public that would put so many to shame.
As for tele stars, if they don't project themselves,they simply stop existing in the public memory once the serial slides from a trp chart. Also, today's tele stars have become media savvy, they have started adopting the tricks that till date was used only by the bolly stars. I have seen the kind of craze Sharad Kelkar can have in parts of US, or a Hiten Gauri pair can have. In fact, today, some of the stars have almost as parallel a popularity as a good bolly stars. Some stars will always be more popular than others. Abhishek will draw more crowd anyday than a Fardeen Khan,SRK will make a head away when it comes to comparison with any star today. So comparing them to the telly stars is like comparing apples to oranges.
Tele stars do not compare themselves to any bolly star. They have simply carved a niche for themselves. They prat, they preen, the patter, they cling because there is someone who is going to print about it.
For ages the 'wood' industry all over the world made a line popular ' any publicity is good publicity'. Tele stars have realised it and now they are making the full use of it.
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