Bollywood-Underworld Nexus – Reasons and solutions
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Every Tom, Dick, Harry in India knows about the decisive influence the underworld has on the bollywood. Why no movie has been made on atrocities of Aurangzeb, Babur? Why many bollywood movies try to demean the Hindu traditions? If it were secular, it should do the same to all other religions – why Hinduism only? Why no movie has been made on emergency? How Gulshan Kumar got shot in broad daylight near a temple and just one (only one) guy was sentenced? Why a mediocre movie like GullyBoy gets recommended for Oscars. All these point to the intricate nexus between both.
In my wisdom, the reasons could be as follows.
As we can see subsequent govts have done their bit to reduce the underworld influence by allowing financing from legal sectors. But still the underworld remains deeply entrenched and hence something more needs to be done. I can think of the following:
It is in the national interest that Bollywood which influences the brains of millions should be in right hands or else it would pose a national threat.
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