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In a busy news room, one never wants to be the last to know things. The person with information first gets further ahead. In the age of mobile alerts, Blackberries and I-Phones, we all want to be kept update with what is happening. It doesn’t have to be the latest news, it can even be what the celebrities are doing or what your friends every move is via twitter...
Receiving updates after the fact is of no value. It’s not fun being the last to know, and so we try to keep abreast with what is happening with commodity we feel is of most value.
I know that my Blackberry is used to keep updated on the latest news and views, not to mention my Face-book account and when there is a service disruption, I’m not a very happy telco customer. But that’s because I don’t want to be the last to know.
Recently I could fully empathise with Mr.Bachchan’s agony of being the last to know. A much agitated Mr Amitabh Bachchan poses in his blog. The cause for his agitation?
The brand ambassadorship of Gujarat as a tourist destination followed by a photo-op and handshake with Narendra Modi, the salutation to Bal Thackeray in the midst of the MNS-MNIK face-off, the The Worli Sea link controversy with the Congress, the Earth hour blackout of Abhishek Bachchan.
Before Mr Bachchan decodes the `pattern' in this social distancing and sudden alienation, he must answer the paramount question: Is there a connection between art and politics or is an artist above politics and political divides?
In an ideal state nobody would have a problem with Mr.Bachchan's changing loyalties, because, he's representing himself as a public personae rather than a political person. He's representing himself as an artist who has four decades of Indian cinema with an iconic filmo-graphy that stretches from Vijay Verma (the hero of most of his blockbusters in the 1970s) to Auro, the 13-year-old hero of Paa. Does anybody care what his personal political ideology is all about?
Sadly enough, the ideal situation doesn’t apply to Mr.Bachchan with the current unfolding of events and him being socially cornered. What are you, Mr Bachchan? Right-wing, centrist, communalist, regionalist or are you liberal, secular, progressive?
Is it really important for an artist to put down as disclaimer what his political belief is? Or now it’s a social coup taking shape?
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