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This is the list of Actors and actresses who are campaigning in our election this time around.
Funny how most of them weren't around earlier and suddenly came crawling out of the green rooms and casting couches just before the elections. Is anyone else worried about this?
There are those who say that politics is already so marginalized and trivialized that a glamour quotient is not a bad thing. Especially if it brings people to the rallies.
My worry is still this - A political participant is theoretically supposed to espouse certain values. Or stand for something. All that most of these stars stand for is box office drawings. Aptly reflected in their frivolousness. Take for example Ms Hema Malini. Our fair damsel attended a rally in gujarat campaigning for the modern day megalomaniac known as Narendra Modi. She urged voters to vote for BJP saying "Yeh basanti ki izzat ka savaal hai" (vote for basanti's honour).
Another frustrating example is the "tulsi" phenomenon. Since this Smriti Malhotra Irani joined the BJP she's been spouting lines straight off the sets of Kyunki Saas.. And the populace is lapping it up.
Our superstar bachan saab has been quoted in this week's India Today saying that he campaigns for personal friends not out of any political ideology. Don't these people realise that their faces have some value. And that value has to be backed by personal judgement and responsibility. Not by exchange of money (atleast not undisclosedly) or other trivialisations.
I agree that a few are actual proactive participants in the political process (Nafisa Ali, Jayapradha for example). They've stood for elections and worked for their constituency. But by and large, the new bollywood brigade is more talk and less action.
If they're genuinely concerned about giving back to society then ask them to take a stand. stand for election. work in a constituency. Or do any one of about three hundred things you can do on a normal non-election month to "give back" to the people.
I for one am tired of basanthis and mugambos invading politics.
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