May Sunil Dutt's soul rest in peace - despite the 'grief vultures' hovering around his cold and stiff body. I mean the TV crews who were cruising the funeral zone for soundbytes from his many famous friends.
An incoherent Dilip Kumar and sombre Saira Bano are being interviewed. A ticker on-screen flashes - "exclusive to NDTV India".
In a bid to be 'different' Star News merely announces "Sunil Dutt is dead" as the top story and then without telling you how it happened, or a brief obituary of the man - takes you straight into 5 minutes of monologue by Lata Mangeshkar (what a close friend he was, we toured Bangladesh etc etc).
And so it goes. Wonder what it must feel like to be a young reporter whose job it is to thrust a mike into the face of a mourning friend or family member. Can one really go home at night and feel good about what one does for a living?
Is this what the viewers really want? Or just because they dish it out, we watch in morbid fascination...
Considering that a lot of veteran Bollywood actors are now over 70 - and at some time or the other likely to die of natural causes - this is a trend that's here to stay. Jise jaana tha woh toh chalaa gaya. We, the ones left behind, must live with it!
Straight out of Page 3.
ReplyDeleteYou would think that a network run by Pranoy Roy wouldn't be cheap since they tout their "experience" so much on that network, but its understandable that Sunil Dutt's death would get a lot of coverage he was more than just a actor and had a huge impact, i liked him cuz he was in one of my fav. movies "padosan". Its a sad day for indian films since not only did they lose sunil dutt, but Ismail merchant also, i honestly believe his films did a lot in getting indian talent showcased to the world, he made such films like Howards End and Room with a View. Its true a lot of out really great actors are in their 70's and they will pass way someday but hopefully networks n press in general would pay homage in the proper manner with respect, instead of making it into a cheap segment.
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Well really..blame it on aaj tak that started it all...u know what..for six months i had locked up that channel and nobody in my house could watch cos only i knew the password ;-) Their kinda coverage sucks and they make it a point to scream forgetting that if we do wanna pump up the volume we have something called the remote with us...something like so many indians till date shouting when they make an STD call despite the fact that the days of trunk call have long gone!! Good writing...Keep the faith....
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