Why did Naseer have to apologise to Twinkle AGAIN?
Here's the latest update from the world of Bollywood. We bet you wouldn't want to miss this. Read on for details... Surely, he is as entitled to his opinion as anyone else may be
After all the brouhaha that happened in late July when veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah said that he thought India’s first superstar, the 1970’s actor Rajesh Khanna was a mediocre actor responsible for the advent of mediocrity in Hindi films, and had caused a huge backlash, the seemingly dormant subject came to life again this Monday when Naseer tweeted an apology to Rajesh Khanna’s daughter Twinkle Khanna. The tweet read…
The point here is the need to rake up the subject again, more than 15 days after it had died down. Wasn’t one apology by the veteran actor enough? And if it was, where was the need to apologise again?
Which brings us to the very contentious subject of opinion and observation. Surely, Mr. Shah is as entitled to his as anyone else has the right to theirs. And when feelings are hurt as sometimes expressing an opinion can, surely one apology is also enough.
What most commentators on the subject, and there have been many from within and without the film industry, have failed to notice is that Naseer did not make this statement on social media. He said it to a newspaper, and later apologised to the newspaper when asked for a reaction to Twinkle slamming him for his comments. If it had stayed there, the damage would have been glossed over in a day, but once it reached social media, it blew up like a gas balloon and gained a life of its own.
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Social media is unrelenting and Ms Khanna has a formidable following. Naseeruddin Shah doesn’t even have a verified account. If he had been more of a social media follower, he would have been aware that just a week before the controversy broke out, on July 18, in fact, Twinkle had independently posted a picture of the late Rajesh Khanna and the image had been liked 1,400 times and had been retweeted 288 times. One does not know the age of these followers, but one can safely predict it would be on the Northern side of the mean.
Next week we will take a look at the sanity, or lack of it thereof, of releasing two big-ticket films on the same weekend -- never mind if festivals and holidays mean the paying public will likely have the time to watch both. But will they want to?
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