What: The Kashmir Files starring Anupam Kher in the lead, has been in the news ever since it was announced. After releasing in March last year, it was mired in controversies and was labelled as propaganda by haters. Since then, its director Vivek Agnitori has been on a spree to bash and call out Bollywood’s actors and filmmakers for the camps and groups in the industry. Now joining his league is TKF’s leading actress Bhasha Sumbli, who has slammed the Hindi film industry for their ‘dumb stars’.
Furthermore: Bhasha rose to fame with Sharda Pandit’s character – a character loosely based on the real-life story of Girija Tickoo, a Kashmiri woman, who was divided into two pieces alive. While talking about nepotism, Bhasha Sumbli said that the Hindi film industry prefers dumb people. She added that star isolate actors and make sure they don’t get work despite proving their mettle in the other films.
We say: Indeed, this is another sad case of a talented actor being sacrificed at the altar of nepotism. In fact, we are told by actors who faced similar harassment that the insiders’ group is so strong that they just don’t allow any outsider to enter their esteemed portals even though they say otherwise. …Come on Bollywood, it sure is time to change!