‘Bollywood Could Not Do Sh** About Irrfan Getting Hollywood Offers’: Sutapa Sikdar On Insider Vs Outsider Debate

Beginning her post talking about her roots and how she comes from a varied background, Sutapa also clarified that this post has nothing to do with SSR. Read on.

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New Delhi: With the untimely death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a number of debates have opened up in the tinsel town including the ignited controversy of ‘insiders vs outsiders’. Recently, Irrfan Khan’s wife Sutapa Sikdar took to her social media and penned down a long note and opened up on how no one owns Bollywood. Beginning her post talking about her roots and how she comes from a varied background, Sutapa also clarified that this post has nothing to do with SSR. In her long post, she wrote, “Stop this! This inside-outside theories it works only in design journals. Don’t narrow the concept of oneness if one would take the regionalism so strongly you become a frog in a small pond..because I look at many sadhus spiritualist coming from every region but finding solace in Himalayas ..who owns Himalayas? and when they go their its them they melt to the region not the people of that region? It’s their need to go to Himalayas not those people who are inhabitants on the foothills and no one cares as its purely nirvana. Neither  the seeker nor the giver..” Sutapa further disclosed how the ‘Maqbool’ actor made his own path, worked on his craft rather than being disappointed about not being called to Bollywood parties., “If you consider your work a spiritual quest you won’t be sad if people didn’t call you for their “parties” or did not come for your “premiers”. Irrfan did not get a cover page of a film magazine for many years he did not waste his time gossiping about people or bad mouthing nor did he get depressed, he chiseled his craft ..and refused to be part of it till he got the cover page and he did.(he got mostly depressed not clinically but sad, looking at the disparity in the society.)or once or twice went to brink of breakdown preparing for roles not because  so called insiders did not call him for holi parties. and yes no one dared make fun of him ever on any show or any channel .” Another portion from her post read, “The point is if you are unable to sustain the indifference of the power people or understand the business of film industry and you want to continue here then you need help and talking to a therapist is not equivalent to be called mad. It’s a simple thing no one owns Bollywood until or unless you think there are some people who own this industry. The Bollywood couldn’t do a shit about Irrfan getting Hollywood offers.” Sutapa Sikdar concluded her note, “In the end of the day you choose to be who you are no one else does it for you. So your weaknesses are yours, your fears are yours,your fight is yours. May you survive in the most dignified way because that will determine what you are made up of.”

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