Casting Couching: March 21 2005

Recently some TV Chanel is trying tell us that there is "casting couth" happening in bollywood and trying to show with some real proof. May be the way it was ploted agains "those" people it was not good but, I dont see any better way to show casting couch kind of things. Lets look at the broader image here, Shakti Kapoor is not a target here, its system which is being targeted.

There was a similar event which performed by Tehelka in fake defence deal, and then we saw (we already new politician are corrupt) how our leader are using their post and portfolio to fill their wide open mouth.I saw most of us want to close our eyes and say loudly "This is wrong, It is unethical". Why people do that? Its ethical to do such things but it is unethical to show them in public? Wow, inst a double standard.Have a look on following real life examples:

A devotional singer and singing the following lines:Kabira Khada bazar mne liye lukathi haath.Jo ghar bare aapna chale hamare saath.This is one of the stanza from Kabir's amritwani. As per these line, kabir is standing in market holding a fireflame, and asking those people to come along with him, who can burn there houses.How many of them can burn their houses? And people are enjoying that. Saying "wah", "wah". I beleive proabably if Kabir comes today and ask for the same then we will find that witin a minute there will not be any one to listen him. So the conclusion is people will be happey to listen what Kabir said, but they will never be happy by listening Kabir. Is it a double standard? Or just an escapist nature of human beaing.

Another example:

Recently there was a movie called Page 3, the movie was deling with Bollywood internals. The movie had a new way to expose the "Other" face of bollywood, what happens in the darker side. The movie was well appreciated and well received by most of us. Was it becuae it was not a real story but a "movie"?

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