Cowardice has plagued the so-called artists of Bollywood for a while now, and yet, their acts surprise us every time they bother to crawl out of their luxury hiding holes to parrot. Most prominent Bollywood biggies have already shown their general pusillanimity and true allegiances (to politics and power) time and again.
It-couples like Ranbir-Alia and Vicky-Katrina, yesteryear cine icons like Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, and Rajnikanth, and commercial filmmakers like Vidhu Vinod Chopra to Rohit Shetty—they have all shown up for selfies with the Prime Minister with equal aplomb. They have also abandoned the future of this country: the protesting youth.
There are no vaccines or cures for their collective case of cowardice yet. So, they continue to behave like selfish zombies of the zeitgeist, motivated by self-preservation and ticket sales. However, a few untainted ones—the rebels and true poets at heart, the ones who still believe in revolutions always show up in time and with solidarity to keep things interesting.