Bollywood
World’s third largest and multi-million dollar film industry that rules our hearts. Bollywood and Bollywood celebrities have a great impact on our lives. Some people follow their dressing sense, while some their style. On screen or off screen, the industry never fails to entertain us. Clichéd romance to fighting for your love and family drama, we know very well what is happening on screen but rarely do we know what goes on behind the camera...
1.Sexualisation of actresses
This is one of the bitter truths about the industry. Sexualisation of women is quite a fashion in the industry and happens in one out of every two movies. A survey revealed that 35% offemale characters feature nudity..
After Germany and Australia, Indian film industry comes on the third spot where actresses are presented with a sexy image. The trend of items songs in Bollywood is at par where the actress is objectified for various reasons..
- Casting couch
Yes, that’s the reality of the industry. Every new actor and actresses, once in their life have gone through the horrible casting couch experience. Many casting couch directors demand sexual favour from actors in return of big roles in the movies...
Actors like Ranveer Singh, Ayushman Khurrana, Kangana Ranaut, Radhika Apte, Tisca Chopra and Kalki Koechlinhave shared their casting couch experiences. On the other hand, AmanVerma and Shakti Kapoor have been blamed for asking favours from newcomers.
- Discrimination for skin tone
The industry always gives preference to actors and actresses with fair skin tones. Many actors like Konkana Sen, Manoj Bajpayee, Dhanush, Chitrangadha Singh and Smita Patil have faced discrimination for darker skin tones...
Dhanush once said in an interview that an actor should be fair and good-looking...
- Nepotism
On the sets of Koffee With Karan, Kangana Ranaut blamed Karan Johar for practising nepotism in the industry. Her statement turned into anugly war between her and Karan Johar...
In an old interview, which recently surfaced on the internet, Karan Johar admitted that getting an entry in Bollywood is next to impossible if youdon’t have a god father here. However, actors like Akshay Kumar got success on their own terms.
- Friends with benefits
Many actors including Kangana Ranaut have admitted that Bollywood is not a place for friendships. Every other person will befriend you for theirown benefit and once they are done, they will kick your ass and throw you out of their life...
Many old friendships like that of Karan Johar and Kajol have seen bitter ends...
- Flop actors are considered socially dead
The industry sees a flop actor as a taboo. Almost everyone in the industry starts ignoring them and nobody wants to work with them. Even no production house wants to sign them. The veteran actress Nadirafaced the same. She gave successful movies like ‘Shri 420’ and ‘Pakeeza’ but once her movies got flop on box office, people started to ignore her. She was left alone and later died due to depression...
- Poverty
In this shining and glittering industry, there have been many actors who gave successful movies in their era but after their career ended, they faced huge poverty. Some of them didn’t have money for their treatment while some spent their life alone. Actors like A.K. Hangel, Bhagwan Dada, Bharat Bhushan, Jagdish Mali, Parveen Babi and Kadar Khan are some of the examples. Jagdish Mali was found begging on streets while dead body of Parveen Babi remained in her apartment for three days...
- Depression, alcoholism and mysterious deaths
Many actors and actresses of the industry have gone under depression and alcoholism while some died under mysterious circumstances. Parveen Bobby was one of the most successful actress of her time who went in depression, abused drugs andalcohol and died in very pathetic condition. On the other hand, Divya Bharti was one of the rising actresses of her time who died under mysterious circumstances which is still unknown....
- Infidelity
Bollywood movies have many times promoted infidelity and cheating on partners but our favourite Bollywood stars are nowhere behind. Many superstars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar have shamelessly cheated on their partners. A great number of actors have had extra-marital affairs, some of them even married twice or thrice...