Alia Bhatt, who has mostly stayed away from ever talking about politics, finally reached her tipping point last year after what happened at Jamia. When she put up a shot of the preamble of the constitution in her Insta-stories, with the message ‘learn from the students,’ what followed was enough fodder for an entire treatise on the misogyny that exists in our society.
It’s not just about a person’s religion or gender anymore when it comes to the targeting of Bollywood. When television news anchors bay for ‘Bollywood’ blood 24X7 in the midst of a raging pandemic and incursions from neighbouring superpowers, you’d be daft not to see that they make for the softest targets to distract an entire population. And in light of this, keeping a low profile is probably the most prudent course of action for an actor on whose shoulders rest the entire fortunes of a film. A film, after all, is a team effort and the future successes of an entire crew are at stake when an actor takes a…