I don't know if the word hypocrite does justice to a person like Aamir Khan. The issue isn't about whether some star should put her or his weight behind the displaced poor in the Narmada valley, it never was. The real question is that do the people, like Aamir Khan, walk the talk?
Let's look at Aamir Khan the person. I am a huge fan of the actor. He is second to none. So, this great actor is now doing on TV what he does best! Acting. Let's go back a few years.
Aamir had shunned press because he felt they weren't good to him, in not as many words. I have issues with some sections of the press who report unworthy things such as the news.
But good journalists exist, so do good newspapers and also good news channels. What the great actor had done is shunned them for good. He refused to talk to them because they wouldn't write good things about him.
Now, Aamir Khann has movies lined up for release. He needs to promote those movies and badly needs the press, the 'demons'. The people he abhors and had refused to speak to.
If he were to go to these people say "I want to talk about Rang De... or Fanaa", we all know what the response would have been. He wouldn’t apologise. So what does he do? Make a smokescreen.
Tell the press that I want to support an issue. He may not care two hoots about the issues, but he needs to be seen so that the press says 'Aamir khan spoke about the NBA people. By the way, his movie is due for a May release, the promos have started appearing. That's exactly what he wanted and that's exactly what he has done.
He started supporting Khushboo before Rang De... released and to every question by the youth he brought up Rang De Basanti.
Now's the time for Fanaa and he wants to empathise with the displaced villagers from a room in a 5-star hotel in Delhi.
He never followed up about Khushboo? He has said that he may not be able to give NBA his full support. That means, once the movie has hit the screens he’ll show everybody the middle finger and go into his shell.
Then would be his new film's release in the near future and he'd look for an issue.
He says he was driving in Delhi and saw these people and then wanted to join them and raise the issue after spending one day (what a long time) to understand their problems.
Thank god he wasn't in Kolkata. He’d have seen a few people oppose Sourav’s exclusion from the team and then started batting for the southpaw. And had he been in Jodhpur he might have sided with the Bishnois or, god forbid, Salman killer Khan.
I don’t understand!! Is the media so naïve as to not understand the motives of this crusader by convenience? Celebrities like Rahul Bose have shown the way.
He has been helping in the Andamans even after we seem to have forgotten about the Tsunami. Highlight his efforts. Highlight the efforts of Valmik Thapar who has been fighting for our national animal for 30 years.
Fight for Medha Patkar who has always fought for the rights of the poor in the NBA.
People like Aamir Khan don’t deserve to be heard if they have vested personal interests like being seen while his latest release’s promos have come on air.
2 comments:
I find it difficult to agree with your view. Aamir has given so many hits that he doesn't need to do such stunts. In fact his detractors seem to be helping him in this respect. Do you think BJP in Gujarat would target him if he were a nobody? Aamir stopped talking to the filmy press for he found them twisting and distorting. He is an actor and not an activist. Does that mean actors should not support activists?
Dear Sir,
The point I was trying to make isn't if celebrities should or should not support activists. It was 'do they walk the talk'?
Even I was taken in by Aamir when he was seemingly fighting for Khushboo before the release of RDB. He founf another issue before Fanaa.
I humbly ask, where is the great actor now? He needn't do dharnas every week, but why should he isolate from causes after his movies have come off the screens? I still feel that he is a crusader by convenience.
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