Bollywood hypocrisy, male chauvinism and a fast fading Preity Zinta

Faced with the onslaught of the twenty-something brigade, another top actress bites the dust. This time it’s pretty, the dimpled lass- Preity Zinta. Poor Preity has no films in hand other than the mediocre Heaven And Earth. Even good friend Karan Johar, with whom she did Kal Ho Na Ho and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, has stopped casting her in his films. So what does an out of work, aging actress do? Elementary, my dear Watson. She simply jumps onto the item number bandwagon. Yes, Preity’s doing an item number in Salman Khan’s Main Aur Mrs Khanna. The bitter truth is that it’s a man’s world and Bollywood is a cruel extension of the truism. Grrr, it gets my blood to boiling point that the aging Khan Quartet and the equally aging Akshay Kumar are still going great guns, running around trees with girls half their age, while great actresses of the calibre of Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Bipasha Basu have fallen by the wayside. Oh, the injustice of it all…… Bollywood is still light years from Hollywood where older actresses like Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston get to sink their teeth into meaty roles. And till we get there, if we ever do, our actresses will have to make do with ‘Main Aayee Hoon UP Bihar Lootne’ and other nonsensical numbers……grrrrr!