Once a popular child artist now caught in a prostitution racket? Well, she isn’t the only one. The news about your favorite actors, that you would never believe, are more often than not true. The picture that Madhur Bhandarkar painted with Fashion and Heroine is not the worst thing Bollywood has. While all of it, or atleast most of it is true, the reality is far ahead of it. If you are an aspiring starlet awestruck by the beauty of the star world, Pandit’s life is just another testament of the flip side of this much lucrative careers that comes at one’s own risks.
Certainly success always helps, but for a non star kid to get anywhere even close to acting sans sources is impossible. Being in the good books of directors, producers, popular actors all help. But entering the good books category is not easily done. In an extremely professional world of Bollywood too, there still exists the conventional mindsets where transaction happen either in return of money or sex, both are which still rule as the most valuable assets of the industry. So if an unknown, pretty looking assistant director rises to the ranks of an actor in swanky launchpad vehicle, sources can’t keep shush about the not-so-unexpected sexual relationship the actor was sharing with the much senior director who shows off the guy as his trophy child after a string of successful films.
Shweta Prasad
Why target the babies alone? The Superstars have their own long stories. A ruling actress at a point of time, national award winner and engaged to a rich star kid once upon a time had a break up based on similar Shweta Pandit-ish reasons. She once used to serve as an escort for rich, NRI clients. The self proclaimed, izzatdar family wouldn’t accept the girl as their bahu anymore and the engagement was unduly called off.
Another Superstar, who and his wife were touted as the best couple till sometime back has a no-talk relationship with their spouse. The mansion has a loud silence which one can’t bear and the walls speak loudly of the love they once shared. Growing children together while the star is doing other men and women and the wife seeks solace in some handsome industry gigolos.
Star wives who pretend to be the best of buddies in public bond over elaborate orgies, the gossip mongers suggest. While the bedroom talk in none of anyone’s business when press releases are slapped on the faces of publications, why should the talkers not talk? Entering your bedroom to find another woman in bed with your husband is a common affair for most star wives. But divorces happen for other reasons. Drugs and Distance being the prime reasons.
Again, male prostitution too exists in the industry. Don’t be shocked. Popular models who cannot make their mark as actor too come at an obnoxious price. The tags vary from a couple of thousands to many lacs. Handsome, gorgeous men you won’t believe are attainable. Yahan sab kuch bikta hai, everything comes at a cost!
Popular writers, veterans too have their old stories. Director and story writers too write their own stories. Brutality in their sexual relationship forcing them into separation to traumatic marriages, short lived unhappy relationships pushing actors into homosexuality – all exists here.
The film journalism and media around Bollywood too lead a very dicey life. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham for them. Once a popular editor of a big magazine, a favorite of all superstars and now dying in oblivion because the stars need to be kept pleased. To be able to survive here, consistent symbiotic help is the only thing that will keep sustained at your position.
True were the words, all world’s stage and all men are actors. But the actors we shower adulation on are mostly corrupt, manipulative people who someday or the other fall prey to the web of sewer what exists around them. Everyone who is even remotely in the industry or a part of it, is aware to it but cannot spill it out with names and exacts. Kyunki ghoda agar ghaas se dosti kar lega toh khayega kya!
