Smiling away in mock gaiety,

springing vibrant colors,

enlivening the celluloid..

entertaining with variety..

Raised on a pedestal

With admirers feasting 

on every intimate detail…

Does privacy ever prevail?

A conduct even slightly wrong..

invites an  ire so strong…

Their fascination, in a moment

people forget…

targeting them , the next minute

with choicest epithet!!

Their stardom worshiped

with so great an ardor

But forgotten no sooner

than waning of glamour!

forever…

Hiding away the hurt pride and   pain 

behind the mask of the grease-paint

Smiling away in mock gaiety,

they carry on…

Because the show must go on..!!

 

 

 

I wrote this poem a month back and it was not in a presentable shape but I have tried to put it in readable form today for this NaPoWriMo challenge. Indians are in the habit of literally worshiping the film actors. The media splashes the minutest detail of their day to day life in print which the public greedily laps up. If the news is favorable people go gaga but smallest of odd behavior doesn’t stop people to spread slander. At times I pity these celebrities whose each action is under the scrutiny of the public eye. This is my version of their sweet-sad success!

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