Salman Khan , Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan are Superstar and not me and none
By
RUBY ZAIDI
One of the finest actors Manoj Bajpayee spoke gently to a question asked by a journalist, ” Are you satisfied with your present status of a star ?” Manoj Bajpayee smiled and replied very gently, “Yes, If not satisfied even though I am happy with my present situation as an actor and mind it I am not enjoying stardom as I am not a superstar or a star.” ” Then what’s a superstar and stardom ?”Manoj gave examples of actors Salman khan King of Bollywood , Shahrukh Khan | SRK , #AmitabhBachchan . Manoj said, “The audience respects me because of my work but their reaction to Salman and Shah Rukh are very different.”
He further spoke,
“Have you not seen their craze in public ?” After asking me he continued, ” Huge crowd gathers outside Amitabh Bachchan’s house every Sunday as he gives his fans a glimpse of himself. Shah Rukh Khan recently has been greeting his fans outside his home, Mannat, Salman Khan also appears on the balcony of his Galaxy Apartment on his birthdays and special occasions. On watching him, the fans scream, cheer, and wave, actually this is stardom and these three Superstars enjoy their stardom and none of us.”
The great actor Manoj Bajpayee continued, “Do you know what a Superstar is? A Superstar is, when passing by Amitabh Bachchan’s house I see a traffic jam on the road. At the age of 80, a huge crowd comes to see him on Sunday. Often,
fans gathered in front of Salman Khan’s house, Police force has to control them, lathi charge has to be done on thousands of his crazy fans. Salman Khan just comes to his balcony and waves. Shah Rukh Khan comes and stands on his balcony. So, they enjoy their stardoms.”
After a pause Manoj said with a smile, “When it comes to us, the audience looks at us with respect. ‘You work really well, we watch a lot of your movies’. But the moment Salman, Shah Rukh comes they scream, shout. We cater to our audience very differently and the reaction comes in accordance with that.”
Bollywood Reporter /www.bollywoodreporters.com asks, ” Are you not jealous of them ?”
He replied, ” Oh no, never, infact I feel proud of them, their films are creating history at the box-office, single film earning 1000 crores, it’s not easy to collect such a huge amount, long live our Indian Film Industry. ”
Whatever Manoj Bajpayee has to say but no one can deny his calibre of a genius actor that he has proved in the past with many of his films, he is busy doing quality work, we are proud of him