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How public is private?
akshay shah | 2 | January 29, 2010 at 11:38 pm | 103 views | NaachGaana Bol| Share


How public is private?

Fab piece from Sharmila…

One thing that has baffled me, is society’s eagerness to all things private about celebrities. Why is it that we are so interested in what they do at their private times with family, friends or with themselves. Is it because they are a celebrity and hence there is an expectation that they absolutely must hang their linen, dirty or not on a public platform. Even the sneeze of a celebrity reverberates loudly in news channels and not just in the regional ones but at times even on the national channels where the Turners of the world control them. The newscast also appear extremely intent, serious and academic when relaying information that a celebrity has sneezed. The audience too lap up this information and admirably discuss it with family and neighbors. Nine out of ten celebrity news is absolute blistering nonsense. The media is one which is largely uncouth in it’s portrayal of frivolity and it is most certainly not getting any better

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  1. Rocky 30 January 2010
    12:07:56 pm

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    Great piece.
    I like this Picture a lot !!
    where is it from??

  2. ăbzee 30 January 2010
    10:26:42 pm

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    Sharmila- I’ve been meaning to say this, but never got around to it. Your pieces are by far the most innovative and fresh pieces on cinema that I come across on the web. I mean it.

    Your concepts and the themes around which you concentrate your articles, they display a meta-filmic understanding of the medium. You do not write of films and actors, as we lesser-gifted and less imaginative writers do…rather you write about films and actors. Your concerns of cinema are beyond its obvious role of making films and screening them, and more about cinema and its players as an integral part of our social existence. Cinema is a social entity in your pieces, and you explore it vis-a-vis its relationship with the other members and institutions of society.

    Keep writing. You continue to vow me.

    P.S.- Must thank Akshay Shah for finding you and plugging you as he regularly and unfailingly does. You should become a member of NG, the site needs female blood!

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