Taapsee’s paying the price

It takes some spine and courage to raise your voice and stand up for justice at the need of the hour. Taapsee Pannu is one among the very few celebrities to have openly stated their stance on social and political issues even if it means taking on the establishment and the powerful lot in the country. It doesn’t take great intelligence to establish the connection between her political stance and the sudden IT raids on the production companies linked to Taapsee and Anurag Kashyap and other talent management firms.

This is, in fact, a thing of the past. It was a common practice by the ruling Congress party to silence its critics and oppositions with such impromptu IT raids. Even the likes of N T Rama Rao weren’t spared of this in the early 80s when he hinted at his political entry, commenting about the corruption in politics and his interest to serve the society. The difference in this era being that all the political action has now shifted to social media – it has become simpler for the establishment and its IT cells to find those who’ve been critical about them and even label them ‘anti-national’.

What’s surprising in this situation is with the stunned silence from the industry fraternity – not a single leading celebrity has stated his/her opinion on the attempt to silence critical voices through the raids. This is in stark contrast to Taapsee who has been very vocal with her opinions and has called a spade a spade regardless of every situation. The absence of any unity in Bollywood isn't surprising after all. Everyone here is only looking to safeguard their careers and nothing more.