Late actor Irrfan Khan's wife Sutapa Sikdar has shared an elaborate note on what she thinks about the insider-outsider debate that has been raging in Bollywood for a few years now.
Citing her own example as an amalgamation of varied cultures and ethos, Sutapa said her late husband Irrfan did not seek approval from anyone in Bollywood, neither did he sulk or gossip when not invited to parties or magazine front page photoshoots. She said the actor instead focussed on chiselling his craft.
Taking to Facebook late Wednesday, Sutapa clarified that her note has nothing to do with late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and should not be taken in that context alone. In a message to the self-appointed ‘messiah of outsiders’ – possibly actor Kangana Ranaut – Sutapa said that the concept of oneness should not be narrowed down to the point that people become the proverbial frogs in the well.
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Posted by Sutapa Sikdar on Wednesday, September 30, 2020
She wrote, “If you consider your work a spiritual quest then you shouldn’t be sad if people don't call you to their 'parties' or don't come to your 'premiers'. Irrfan did not get a cover page of a film magazine for many years but he did not waste his time gossiping about people or bad mouthing, nor did he get depressed, he chiseled his craft."
Sutapa went on to explain how if the artist is unable to tolerate the indifference of powerful people or understand the business of the film industry, and still wants to continue there, then it is the artist who needs help.
She further insisted that being an outsider didn’t make anyone an object of pity, “The one who is pretending to be the messiah of outsiders, who most probably is not even from the industry and is putting me into a bracket for the whole world to see so that they pity me? I don’t want your patronisation. Did you ask any 'outsiders' if they wanted this intervention? Or are you the self-appointed
Urging her followers to quit the insider-outsider debate, Sutapa went on to ask, “How can you be called a victim unless someone forces you to get sucked in?"
"May you survive in the most dignified way because that will determine what you are made up of," she concluded.
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