The Age Debate of Bollywood featuring "The Real Reason"!

With Tushar Hiranandani's 'Saand ki Aankh' trailer came out featuring Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Padnekar there has been a lot of debate as to why were these 2 casts for the role of 60-year-old ladies. For the uninitiated, 'Saand ki Aankh' is based on the true story of Tomar sisters who became sharpshooters at the age of 60. Hence, the debate revolves around the fact that why weren't age-appropriate actresses like Neena Gupta, Seema Pahwa, Ratna Pathak, Supriya Pathak etc not cast and rather these young blood were cast.

                                             

The kind of filth and the controversy surrounding and blaming the hard work of these actresses is being questioned, it can easily and simply be said that had it been any actor, any actor like Alia, Vidya, Shraddha shall never say NO to these stories and in fact shall will pay to play these roles as these roles are affirmative, inspiring and whatnot. So belittling them is absolutely wrong. In fact, no one question's Aamir for playing a college kid in 3 idiots or Nargis playing Sunil Dutt's mother in Mother India or Anupam Kher in Saaransh and just targetting these capable women. 

                                               

What I believe to be the real reason behind this fiasco is that all the producers care about is the Box office collection. Considering the fact, the movie is releasing alongside biggies like Housefull4, Made in China, perhaps the makers would have thought about making some noise by hiring some young blood which would "attract" the audience to the theatres! And since Mone makes the world go round and the youth's unawareness about yesteryear's actresses can be a reason for the producers to NOT cast them as they won't set the cash registers ringing. But all said and done, unless and until money shall continue to rule the roost in Bollywood, actresses will always be snubbed, the content will be neglected (of recent 'The Sky is Pink') as they won't earn revenue! The same reason as to why we did have Akshay Kumar in 'Mission Mangal', take him out, and slash the collections by half!

                                                 

P.S. We hope Saand ki Aankh does some great business.