How Bollywood And Its Marketers Lulled Indians Into Obsessing Over Talentless Star-Kids
by The Daily Eye Team March 28 2017, 3:44 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 32 secsLike a good section of Indians, I know all that is to be known about the Kapoor babies. Incessant media reports have, after all, kept us all abreast of the lives of several generations of Bollywood’s family no. 1. As the lineage advanced from the grand patriarch Prithviraj Kapoor, we watched his successful sons Raj, Shammi, Shashi, grandchildren Randhir, Rishi, and Rajiv, and great-grandchildren Karishma, Kareena, and Ranbir blossom and flourish. Now, we are already being informed of the fifth generation: The midnight mass that Karishma’s daughter Samaira attends every Christmas; the naming storm over Kareena’s newborn Taimur.