A lot has happened in the country post COVID-19. The economy has been at its lowest in years. But the mainstream media has only been feeding us with information about who’s smoking what in Bollywood and getting us “exclusives” with the pizza delivery boy and postman. Bollywood has been the only prime-time news that matters for months now.
What started off as an investigation into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput has become a media circus that’s now targeting (almost) every female actor in Bollywood in an alleged “drugs” angle. Leaked WhatsApp chats and videos have replaced reporters and journalists, and of course the media found a scapegoat in Bollywood actors.
Did Sushant get justice? No! Did these channels get TRP? Oh, yes!
Everyone is trying to settle scores in the name of justice. Terrible, isn’t it? Mainstream media is very much a part of this vendetta, so…