Actor Shashank Arora is known to speak his mind uninhibitedly and he did the same with a recent Instagram post where he said, “Worked hard on my acting for no reason because apparently iss desh mein khaali photos khichaani hoti hain.” Prod him on actors today focusing more on their appearances and he says, “There are a lot of people in Mumbai who are working hard, and there are a lot of people who are more interested in how they look, rather than how their craft is. And that’s the section I refer to as pretend artistes.
An actor’s job is not to look good, but to make you feel something. They just pretend to love acting, whereas all that they actually want is fame. These are the people who don’t love cinema, but the circus and validation around cinema.
They actually do a disservice to the whole community by not actually focusing on their craft.” A post shared by Shashank (@shashank.arora) The 35-year-old also addresses the growing influence of PR machinery in today’s time.
He says, “The PR machinery keeps evolving, sometimes its malls, sometimes its airport. It’s part and parcel of the job. It isn’t something you can put down, it’s up in the air now.
It’s natural for the voices in the business to try and tell you to go out of your way to sell yourself, but the pressure is as much as you let yourself feel. The machinery will continuously try to sell you as that’s how they function, it’s up to you how much you partake.” However, Shashank doesn’t.