“When Bollywood comes around…”, Hindudvesha, March 31, 2024:
“Dollface star and Canadian actress Shay Mitchell had a thing or two to say about the bullying she had received earlier in her career, “I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.” Now, Mitchell might have eventually gotten the correct perspective on her tormentors, and that has probably liberated her from her fears, but has anyone wondered what happened to the bullies when their bluff and bluster were called off and were left exposed as emotional wrecks in search of acceptance? Did they make peace with their distressed inner-self and work towards their healing? Or did they keep hurling their nastiness in their hunt for new targets to torture, or keep regurgitating their victimhood? Well, the simple point to be noted here is that when the power dynamic shifts, it is the bullies who go on a rant about being bullied.
A case in point is a recent biased, blinkered, and bigoted report put out by an ultra-Leftist reporter from one of the world’s biggest wire services – The Associated Press (AP), on the changing face of Bollywood in India, and how it’s hurting the old bullies that had hitherto flourished.[1] Although the biggest hurt evident from this prejudiced piece of reporting is how the new Bollywood is helping the cause of the nationalistic government, as a stream of whodunit blockbusters based on real-life events and biopics on patriotic personalities keep getting released every Friday, on the eve of upcoming general elections of 2024.
Left Vs. New Bollywood?
It would be a waste of time and resources to debunk AP’s Bollywoodian bunkum balderdash, but let us treat this article as symptomatic of the state of mind of the Bollywood rejects, who are left wondering why, when, and how the new audience has passed them by, and extrapolate further. The AP article is based on the rant of the sum total of two mediocrities that defined the ol’ Bollywood, fulminating over the new superhit ‘Swantatrya Veer Savarkar,’ based on the life and times of freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar that’s getting rave reviews from the audience and the industry alike…..”
Read the full article at Hindudvesha.org
