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It is distressing to see the apathy displayed towards yesteryears superstars and filmmakers by today''s stars and filmmakers. It was really sad to see all these famous yesteryear personalities getting a rather lonely funeral. Except a handful of persons from Bollywood no super stars of Bollywood were visible at the burial of some famous Bollwood personalities like Ramanand Sagar, Gulshan Rai, Pramod Chakravorty, Vijay Anand, Johny Walker, Parveen Babi, Nadira, etc died. Not many Bollywood personalities, past or present, attended their funeral. And today''s stars mouth that inane line time and again "Bollywood is one big family”. This is pure hogwash. The reality is that the moment old Bollywood personalities hang up the boots and are away from media glare they are forgotten by Bollywood. This proves that relationships in Bollywood are purely need based and materialistic.

The reality is that the moment old Bollywood personalities hang up the boots and are away from media glare they are forgotten by Bollywood.

The whole of Bollywood attended Dhirubhai Ambani''s funeral few years ago in spite of the fact that he was not related to Bollywood at all. They may talk of humanity. But why didn''t they extend this humanity to yesteryear Bollywood personalities, who were from their own fraternity. And we are talking about people who were big and successful stars and filmmakers of their era and not any junior artists or character actors from Bollywood who are not cared for anyway. When Gulshan Rai and Yash Johar died in 2005 around same time, Yash Johar was given enough media exposure and Gulshan Rai was ignored in spite of making more successful movies than Yash Johar. He was ignored because last few movies under his banner were flops and his son Rajeev Rai is not such a publicity hungry person as Karan Johar. I bet if Karan Johar had not given three hits then the media would have even ignored Yash Johar, whose all movies were flops before Karan Johar arrived. In past and present, film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai for an hairline fracture!, Vivek Oberoi for minor injury were visited by many stars from Bollywood but how many of them bothered to visit Shammi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor and other actors who were kept in Hospital at the same time. In 2005, many Bollywood personalities attended Raveena''s wedding but skipped Vijay Anand''s funeral, which happened the same day. In 2006, no stars attended Ramanand Sagar''s funeral but everyone was present at Fardeen Khan''s wedding the same day in their designer clothes. How shameful!

No stars attended Ramanand Sagar''s funeral but everyone was present at Fardeen Khan''s wedding the same day in their designer clothes

The media is also to be blamed for not giving enough publicity to yesteryear personalities. Reams of newsprint and lots of video footage are devoted to minor injuries of Vivek and Ash and major ailment of Amitabh Bachchan but no such coverage is given to the death and ailments of yesteryear personalities. The media and the stars might proclaim that "Log Chadhte Suraj Ko Salaam Karte Hain" but they should also know that "Chadtha Sooraj Dheere Dheere Dhalta Hai Dhal Jaayega". But I believe it is the life the stars have chosen and they know perfectly well that they would be pushed to oblivion once they are out of the limelight. It seems that the turnout at a funeral depends on how media savvy, famous or powerful the person was when he died. But today''s stars should remember the famous adage "As you sow, so will you reap”. And please do not mouth that clichéd dialogue "Bollywood is one big family”. It sounds so superficial.