I wish it was me! But I am talking about none other than Ms. Shetty! Meet the bollywood superstar (as per various websites, including the BBC!), who is actually disappearing from the Hindi movie scene...suddenly appears on some random show in the UK....and out of the blues, one day we read that the show is facing allegations of racial discrimination!! and whoz the victim?? u guessed it...our "superstar" of course! the public outcry that followed in the UK and India had to be seen to be believed! every politician tried to use the incidence to his/her advantage...in India, people resorted to their new favorite pastime...burning effigies!
i, in the first place, could not understand, how some idiotic people in some show calling a nobody in India, hurt the pride of a country?? How and why should that affect us in any way? How come we are so intolerant of such a thing? That too, when we come from the land of the Gandhi!! The amount of print and media coverage this event got in India and all over the world was ridiculous! The one person who benefitted the most from all this was Ms. Shetty! She got a lot of sympathy, she became an instant celebrity worldwide...shez got offers from the US, the UK, Singapore (do they make movies there???) and of course our very own bollywood! Plus, she won the show and got a cool 1 lakh pounds prize money plus another 40K appearance fee! translates to over a cool crore odd in hand after taxes (assuming our GoI does not show it's largesse and takes it's "pound" of flesh!)...and on the other hand the poor Goody female lost all her fortune which she had made because of one of the earlier versions of the show!!
coming to the point, what did the people gain from this whole episode? NOTHING!! all they ended up doing was to blow a stupid issue out of proportions, waste their hard earned money in sending sms's to ensure ms. S won her fortune and became world famous and more importantly lose a lot of valuable time over a non-issue! But that is how we are! we wont protest bad governance, lawlessness, rising prices, bad infrastructure, ridiculous taxation policies etc...but we have all the time to protest racsim, the death of a dictator 20 days after his death (so what if cost the life of an innocent 11 year old?) or the exclusion/inlcusion of some random cricketer from the Indian cricket team!
As they say, "Mera Bharat Mahaan"!!!
-uv.
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