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Saturday, November 07, 2020

Hypocrisy of Film-stars

The other day. in a weak moment spurred by boredom, I started watching Tiger 3 (someone just made me realise that it was Baaghi 3 starring Tiger Shroff! 🤮🤮😝😝). I couldn't survive beyond a few minutes. The stereotypical characters: a macho hero, a weakling sidekick brother, a sexy looking dumb heroine cracking double meaning jokes ... I can stand all that. What I can't stand is that these film stars, in their public appearances, will talk intellectual sounding fashionable stuff ... talking about emancipating ourselves from those same stereotypes: that a man needs to be macho, that men shouldn't cry, or being sensitive is a sign of weakness, that only dumb and physically attractive woman have "a chance". Presumably, these are movies made for mass entertainment. These masses have nothing better than your movies as sources of information! If you feed them with all unrealistic images in your movies, no amount of talking intellectual sounding stuff about equality etc. in your press appearances is going to make up for that. In fact, it's worse than hypocrisy: You feed the public with junk when you want their money, and then you talk about social causes and philosophy in your press appearances in an attempt to absolve yourself of your sins. Shame! Shame!

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