One thing that could be predominantly observed in Telugu film industry is that almost all the top heroes in this industry are self-centric and focused only about their own business but never thinks about the industry as a whole. And now, Megastar Chiranjeevi’s presence at an awards event other day has made cinema lovers think about this again.
For the recently concluded SIIMA awards actually, Chiranjeevi is the only big star who has attended but the likes of Mahesh Babu, Jr NTR, Ram Charan, Prabhas and Bunny who are very much in Hyderabad haven’t even shown any mood to attend it. Let’s say Prabhas is busy with Saaho promotions, but others are absolutely free with only some regular shootings going on.
As the event took place in Qatar, which is just 5 hours away from Hyderabad they could take one day leave and attend the event easily. But still, our stars don’t mind absconding from such events. Some say that these stars don’t get paid anything other than the flight tickets and accommodation, so they don’t go to awards events unless they bagged one. But frankly speaking, when some Telugu persons are hosting such big awards event like SIIMA, isn’t that a responsibility of stars to encourage them?
These big stars cry big for the sake of Telugu film industry but at the end, they don’t encourage awards events and look everything from a business perspective. But in Bollywood, for every big award event, you see stars like Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor, and others attend it, no matter whether they win awards or not. Cut to SIIMA, when Chiranjeevi could attend the event why not these other big stars? Actually Chiru has nothing to do there except collecting Ram Charan’s Best Actor trophy, but still, he made it a point to attend. We have to see when would our stars actually change.
And this applies to Telugu star heroines as well as they are not in a mood to attend SIIMA event but can get busy with gym and holidays. While Samantha is busy practising parkour in Hyderabad (she grabbed Best Actress Critics for Rangasthalam), Rakul Preet is spending time in Spain, Kajal and Tamanna are chilling out in Mumbai with no work in hand.