It’s been 10 years since I got here to Mumbai to develop into an actor. Although I like being part of the business and I’m pleased with the work I’m doing, I get confused with the viewers’s obsession with ‘stars’. Our films and actors have entertained audiences internationally. Nevertheless, the business is now closely reliant on star energy, which regularly overshadows different features of filmmaking. Being an actor is not only about being a lead star within the movie.
Each actor has an essential half in making a movie satisfying. I began my profession as a background actor and labored my method as much as play the lead in a movie. On OTT, there are such a lot of actors doing nice work. However I nonetheless really feel although actors are being appreciated, they’re nonetheless in comparison with a ‘star’. Whereas individuals respect my work, there’s at all times a remark, ‘It is best to play the lead in your subsequent’.
I used to be fortunate to start out my profession in a movie that included actors like Ram Charan and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. I then performed Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s husband, was paired alongside Shraddha Kapoor and in addition did tasks alongside Sushmita Sen and Shahid Kapoor lately. Each time these tasks got here out, I felt the onerous work of the solid and crew was overshadowed because of the viewers’s obsession with stars. Because of this, the publicity, together with the trailers and on-line adverts, are all centered across the stars in order that the studios can entice the viewers to observe their content material. It’s a vicious cycle and a endless race!
On the one hand, we debate about nepotism, but persons are extra within the whereabouts of stars and star children. I really feel on this new age of social media, a much bigger drawback has taken over – a contest to face out and consistently create content material to impress the viewers.
Every little thing is slowly changing into faux. From blueticks to paid views to evaluations to scores to paid paparazzi to just about every little thing that surrounds us. Every little thing on YouTube has hundreds of thousands of views the day it’s launched.
The place are we headed? I’ve been on this race for some time and I’ve made peace with it. However I see stress round me once I work together with my mates from the fraternity. Can’t we simply benefit from the content material and performances and respect them for what they’re? Only a thought!
