We erect huge facades for celebrities. And maybe that is the reason for us undermining their individuality. This is to say that, we expect them to do a lot of things and say a lot of stuff or not say particular things and in this we undermine their capacity of being just another human and citizen with same messed up life and most importantly, the right to an opinion, just as anybody from amongst the magnitude of 1.25 bn. has. To us, they must do what we expect of them and not what they want.
It's just like yesterday when all the opinion platforms were stormed in a reaction to an apprehension of one of the most acclaimed actor, Aamir Khan, which he rather braved to voice and notwithstanding the tornado his way, stood by. And in the continuum to this sad state, we again had an almost same episode repeated.
Just less than a week ago another person, again an acclaimed celebrity, took the same path and boldly voiced his opinion or anger to be more precise, against what he called “forced religiousness”. In a series of tweets, starting from his own situation of being awakened by the sound of amplified Azaan to a general comment on temples and gurudwaras. Just as the celeb maintained the bold tradition of speaking up on issues that matter them, “we the people” also didn’t fail to maintain our’s, that of blowing things out of context and condemn in silence, the one who dares to speak up.
