Bollywood actors expose ||traitors||  ||fake actors|| ||nepotism| #expose #shorts #ytshorts #ytviral
Channel: Focal Point
Date: 2023-02-10

Bollywood actors expose traitors of Bollywood |fake nationalism| #expose #shorts #ytshorts #ytviral @malikofficialsaqib 


1A young, successful, Hindi film actor dies in tragic circumstances. What follows is a sensational real-life movie, scripted in the headquarters of Hindu Rashtra, as part of its larger campaign to control the cultural arena.1

2Sushant Singh Rajput was found hanging in his bedroom in a Mumbai flat in June 2020, and it was initially declared as suicide by the Mumbai police. Within days however, the hashtag Justice for SSR started trending, and suddenly thousands of devoted and inconsolable fans had sprung up all over social media, all attacking “Bollywood” (the Bombay film industry) for its “nepotism” which had deprived a talented actor of work, driving him to suicide. “Boycott Bollywood” was a key theme in this frenzied outpouring of apparent grief. From this point, it escalated to claims that Rajput had been murdered, and that a drug cartel linked to Bollywood stars was involved in the crime. Soon these claims were all that one could see on social media, and on some Hindi, Marathi and English television channels, especially Republic and Times Now, which specialize in sensationalist and blatantly pro-Hindutva political reportage, including fake news (for one instance see Bajpai 2020).

3A key figure in this campaign, with a relentless barrage of tweets about Rajput’s death, is actor Kangana Ranaut, who entered the industry as an outsider, and now has a creditable body of work including the prestigious National and Filmfare awards under her belt. It is Ranaut who, in 2017, during a talk show hosted by quintessential “insider” film producer Karan Johar (from an industry family), challenged Johar directly about “nepotism”—the word was first used by her here—in the industry, including in his own productions, to his evident shock and embarrassment (Johar 2017).

4Indeed, Ranaut was an exception on the show Koffee with Karan, which has almost exclusively featured generations of established film families engaging in cliquish gossip and insider jokes. Ranaut came into Hindi cinema from a small town, and by sheer talent made it to the top. She is an outsider not only to the industry, but also to polished English-speaking elite circles. While fluent in English, her earthy accent makes her stand out among film industry children who have attended, with one another, top schools in the country and abroad and some of whom in Koffee with Karan, refer to well-known names in the industry as “Aunty” and “Uncle.” Ranaut has also been publicly single for some years after a public breakup with an actor, which is irrelevant to our story. That is to say, she has had no visible protective male leaning over her and her persona is that of a smart, independent woman with a mind of her own, as is the case with several women in the industry. After that explosive interview, the term “nepotism” achieved iconic status, and pops up in almost any discussion on the Bombay film industry.

5Another angle to Rajput’s death was produced by Rajput’s father, KK Singh, who accused Rajput’s girlfriend of two years, Rhea Chakraborty (also an actor but just starting out) of lying about Rajput’s mental health, which forced Rajput’s therapist to issue a public statement that he “was suffering from bipolar disorder” (Quint Entertainment 2020). However, this was denied vehemently, and Singh accused Chakraborty of “abetment to suicide” (a punishable offence under the Indian Penal Code), and of cheating Rajput financially. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which investigates financial crimes, registered a money laundering case against her, based on the complaint by Rajput’s father. The case of Sushant’s death was taken over from the Mumbai Police by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Meanwhile the ED requested that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) join the investigation after its financial probe found that drugs were supplied to Chakraborty and Rajput. In September, Chakraborty was arrested by the NCB for procuring drugs for the latter. The investigation is still vigorously ongoing on this front, and some twenty people have been arrested on the drugs angle. Apart from Chakraborty and her brother, those arrested are some of Rajput’s domestic staff and people identified by NCB as “drug dealers,” who have been found in possession of hashish and marijuana, the quantity of which was not been revealed by the NCB (Pathak 2020).

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