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Bachchan — Day 29

May 16th, 2008Related|Filed Under

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  1. Comment by satyam on 16 May 2008:

    Satyam Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    One of the disadvantages of being a public figure of your extraordinary and really unique stature is that people often make you a screen on which they project all their hopes and anxieties, their rational and irrational expectations. In effect this is the ‘God syndrome’. One can see manifestations of this in many of the responses on your blog, often so moving for precisely this reason. It is psychologically understandable of course. A figure like yourself has ‘represented’ so many across the nation for so long. So many have grown up with you or lived with you for decades as they would with a very close family member. This is why I keep suggesting that the star signature is something that ought to be taken very seriously. Unfortunately the nature of such is often not understood and it is not considered ’serious’ to ‘think’ about a star. In any case, the Jaipur comment you have responded to indicates the same dynamic, assuming it’s sincere (it might not be or even if it is there might be, though not necessarily, a political segmentation on display here). It seems awfully silly at first blush to claim you are “indifferent” to Jaipur. But such a person expects pronouncements from you on everything in all probability! It is extraordinarily difficult to be a star or a public figure, harder still to be one of a kind. ‘Amitabh Bachchan’ is certainly such a singular figure.

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