The singer-TV host-actor on the conflicts of playing a Chinese army officer in War in the Hills, racism in the time of Covid, and why representation matters
Everything Bollywood has been accused of in the last few months – discrimination, drugs, favoritism, nepotism, short-sightedness, cowardice, greed, arrogance, vanity – could be true. As it is true for the rest of the country and every other ecosystem. The Hindi film industry is not a hotbed of sin, polluting an otherwise pristine nation
If we do want to fight Systemic inequality, why waste that fight on something as insignificant as the film industry, which has so little bearing on our daily lives?
Is this inequality? But of course! But this is also a world where swank-architecture and high-fashion magazines exist when there are people who don’t have homes and who wear rags.