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Hate Story 3 shows how unsuccessful stars think stripping is
synonymous with stardom
I
t’s a steroidal battle out there. Four bodies, with no
soul and minimal minds bobbing up and down to sinewy beats that suggest a deep connection between
sex and singing.
Hate Story 3 looks like a meeting point for desperate
losers.The entertainment industry is filled with horror
stories of exploitation and desperation.False promises
of stardom are made to eager young boys and girls by
jaded cunning sleazeballs who promises the sky tostrugglers in exchange for sex.When these wannabe stars
realize they are being….errrr…taken for a ride, they get
bitter and libelous.
It’s as dangerous a world out there for strugglers as it
is for ostensible star-makers who are playing a role they
cannot justify.
Stars, you see, are made in heaven, not on casting
couches.
It’s with some such thoughts that I watched the promotional campaigns of Hate Story 3 with growing horror,
as four unsuccessful actors, one of them a brilliant performer, trying to sell themselves to the public as newlyrevamped sex symbols.
Zareen Khan and Daisy Shah , both made their promising debut opposite Salman Khan. But nothing happened
to their careers after Veer and Jai Ho,respectively.Rather than take the hint and move on, they chose to stick
on in movies.Now they are up there on the big screen
shaking their booties for those who care for that sort of
a thing.
The saddest part of being a voyeur’s teasing delight is
not the emotional and spiritual indignity of selling your
body for attention. It’s selling it to an audience that no
longer gets turned by the flashing of the flesh. Worse
still, all the slithering sighs, thundering thighs, moans,
groans, ‘f…k yous’ and ‘you goddamnedb.tch’es are going to be snipped off by the censors.
And rightly so, Hate Story 3 is the most obnoxious and
puerile projection of pseudo-porn seen in recent times
in Bollywood. It represents a movement in a direction
opposite to Sunny Leone. She abandoned porn and is
attempting to gain Bollywood sanction(how successfully , is another story). These actors in Hate 3are seen
making extremely clumsy attempts to get sanctioned
as skin peddlers. There is no beauty or grace in their
movements; no skill at projecting simulated intimacy is
evident in any of their gestures.
Sorry to say,Zareen Khan , Daisy Shah, Karan Singh
Grover and Sharman Joshi are just faceless bodies , the
kind the seeker would readily find willing to do a lot more
on any porn site.
Specially sad is the case of Sharma Joshi,a fine actor
who effortlessly stole the show from Aamir Khan inVinod
Chopra’s 3 Idiots. It was the worst career move Joshi
could have ever made.The effortless upstaging made
him an immediate threat to the ruling superstars.
Sharman had to be banished. After struggling through
a string of inane films , the last being the insufferable
Rekha vehicle Super Nani, Sharman in order to stop his
career from doing a Harman(Baweja) has been forced
to re-invent himself as a ‘hot’ poster boy . Sharman gave
‘bold’ interviews before the release of Hate Story 3 declaring he was willing to be seen in the buff, if need be.
Sorry, Sharman. No mainstream Indian film will take you
up on that offer. Voyeuristic aspirations inBollywood extend only to women’s cleavages. So no birthday suit for
Sharman.
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