Shilpa Shetty has been paid a rumored 60 Lakhs to be humiliated by a couple of very average British women. The reason she was paid more than Jermaine Jackson (Michael Jackson's brother) is because she agreed to be humiliated whilst he didint.
Now look at the reaction in India. The media jumps on the story for ratings of course. (Feeding on the inferiority complex Indians have when it comes to whites) But look at the Indian politicians! The public holds rallies to protest a rich girl doing what she was paid to do? The people protesting are the same people who are humiliated everyday!
Just the recent past has examples of humiliation in our own country. For example when the villagers of Nithari were humiliated by the police in Noida.(By not even registering their complaints) When the Dalits are humiliated by the upper castes everyday all over India. When the poor are humiliated by the rich in Singur by Mamata Banerjee (denying them the chance to get jobs in a big company).
Where was everyone's indignation then? Where were all these self righteous people then?
When the people of Kolkata protested against George Bush and called him a dog (what a welcome!). When the Palestinians danced in the streets after 911. When the Iraqis put a doormat with Bushs photograph at the Hotel AL Rashid in Baghdad so everyone would step on him. Did the Americans hold protests? Did the British protest?
Why dint they protest?
Because they were far above these people. Thats why.
The British people calling Shilpa Shetty names are very average people who will do anything they are paid for. Jade Goody (not so 'goody goody' really) who has called Shilpa Shetty names has received 8 million dollars for the show so far. If she stops calling people names she will lose that money. This show was her meal ticket. Thanks to the Indian media she has rocketed to fame. We will be forced to hear a lot more from her.
Shilpa Shetty has just sealed her own fate with this one act. She will move from a largely average actress to fame and fortune. Not for her superior acting abilities but thanks to Jade Goody. She will raise her price and make pots of money.
The media has received the highest ratings for this unnecessary controversy. So everyone has exploited the Indian Inferiority complex vis a vis white people for personal gain.
Maybe this will teach the average Indian a lesson. Dont get taken for a ride by the media and vested interests.
When we protest in the streets and involve our politicians we are showing how small we really are. That we are affected by what an average uneducated British woman on the street says about an actress . An actress who has been paid to appear in the show.
Is it that easy to make money? The promoters of the show definitely knew they would get huge ratings from the Indian public should they do this. Or else they would not have paid her so much money. And the Indian media and public fell for it
All I have to do is to get Mallika Sherawat to be insulted by a street dog in Britain. The ratings will make me an overnite millionaire
We need to grow up. We are no longer the poor starving people of yesteryear. We are a proud nation. We cannot react to any nonsense the media goad us with. Even if the perpetrators are white.
Even if they ruled us once upon a time.
And let the media react the same way next time a cop insults a dalit. Even when the dalits' child is not one of 30 who have been beheaded by a serial killer.
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