Crazy crazy….

The recently ended commonwealth games is more in news not because of the performance of sports stars( vewww they are just sports person in India) or the medals India won but because of the controversy about Bollywood stars eleven minutes performance. The fact that the government paid them 40 crores for their 11 minutes performance in an event which is totally related to sports raised quiet a lot voices. Had this amount been used for the development of sports, India would have won many more medals. Making it worse, these stars flew in business class unlike the economy class by the sportsmen.

Film industry is always hyped in India, but giving them more importance than sports persons in a sports event is disgusting. Sports men are never stars in India, we hardly know any one who brought these 50 medals to India in the common wealth games, such is the acquaintance of Indians in the sports. Thanks that Indian cricketers are not victims of this anonymity due to the Indians ever increasing craze for cricket and not to forget Sania mania. She has been much hyped recently and she is now a days not able to sustain her achievement, she lost all her seven encounters in the first round itself recently. This can be attributed to the hype created by media making her complacent. We Indians admire only young and glamorous sport stars, and hype them so much making them lose their form. Sania is the only sports star apart from cricket who has recognition. Why are Olympic medal winners Karanam Malleswari (bronze in weight lifting), Karni Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner (bronze in shooting), P T Usha (lost bronze in 1/100^th sec), the Indian hockey team (8 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 bronze), are not recognized. The Indian hockey team has the record of first biggest score of 24-1 beating USA.

It’s not confined to sports, there are many sectors whose achievements go unnoticed. People know little about the soldiers who sacrifice their lives for the country. On the other hand, there are instances where people ended their lives because of their craze for actors. On the release day of south mega star Chiranjeevi’s film ‘Indra’ a youth ended his life in a theatre for not being able to get the tickets. The police was unable to control the crowd during the first week in the theatres so they started issuing tickets in the police station. This shows how mad people are over this industry. The actors taking due advantage of this craze, campaign for political parties, endorse the brands, and also events like common wealth games charging crores of rupees. Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra, Aishwarya Rai who proclaim themselves as patriots should have given their performance in the common wealth games without charging money, after all it was just a 11 minutes performance representing our country.

Kannada actor Raj Kumar’s death has resulted in unrest in Bangalore. People furiously marched on the roads and destroyed buses and other public property and also fired them. I am still confused why is the public furious or rather on whom, it was just a natural death, had it been any murder then their fury is understandable. Then why destroy public property and create chaos? This shows how stupid people can act for these stars.

Film stars becoming politicians when they retire is not new Jaya prada, Shatrugan Sinha, Vijay Shanti, Sunil Dutt the list can go on… some even do both simultaneously. I don’t understand how could they do justice to two full time professions. Govinda, Mohan Babu, Kota srinivas Rao, Babu Mohan and many more… Some times it seems like films and politics are same… seeing many people in common. It is not confined to India, it is just about every where, Arnold Schwarzenegger vowing as California governor proves it.

I suggest film stars should take the route of Chiranjeevi instead of exploiting the public craze towards them. He started Chiranjeevi blood bank and Eye bank and made public aware about the services. He recites the same in the introduction of all his films, and the number of donations to this trust shows how people regard their idol.