‘Reel Heroes vs Real Heroes’ Naseeruddin Shah’s Daughter Assaulted Vet clinic staff

‘Reel Heroes’ are seen proudly hitting the doctors and health staff in films and earn money and accolades for “acting” so well. But in the process, they give a message to society that they can hit and assault doctors and health staff with impunity, in case the patients feel unsatisfied. Being right or wrong does not matter. Projecting only negativism about medical profession by ‘REEL Heroes’ has resulted in demoralization, belittling and consequent increasing assaults on doctors.

Working on same principles, there was an incident, where health staff of vet clinic was assaulted by kin of “REEL Heroes”. An impression is being created to assault health staff, when-ever there is some dissatisfaction, specially by ‘Reel actors against Real actors’.

A non-cognisable offence has been registered against Naseeruddin Shah’s daughter Heeba Shah for allegedly assaulting two employees of a veterinary clinic reported mid-day. The complaint was registered on 17 January. The NC has been registered under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult) and 506 (criminal intimidation). The incident allegedly occured on 16 January and was captured in the clinic’s CCTV camera. The footage has been submitted to the Versova police, where the complaint has also been registered. The clinic is called The Feline Foundation. Heeba was helping out a friend, Supriya Sharma, by taking her two cats for sterilisation to the clinic.According to the report by mid-day, Heeba Shah entered the clinic in the afternoon at 2.50 pm on 16 January. She was asked to wait outside as surgery was on inside the clinic. After waiting for some time, Heeba allegedly got aggressive with her words and said, “Don’t you know who I am? How can you make me wait for so long outside without any assistance? How come no one helped me to get my cats’ cage out of the rickshaw on arrival?”As can be seen in the video, Heeba also physically assaulted the staff by pushing and slapping the person. She can also be seen yelling at the staff.

Reel heroes or Real heroes-Media projection

Self-proclaimed social activist ‘the Hero’ tring to espouse the cause of hapless patients, by projecting doctors as deceitful. In the process of self-projection as saviours of innocent patients, the ‘hero’ presents doctors as villains of the fleece tragedy as a generalization. Whole profession is painted with the same brush by ‘Reel Hero’, thereby creates a wave of huge mistrust among masses against ‘Real Heroes’ and true saviours.

Unfortunately masses trusted more on the person, who was dancing to entertain them rather than a doctor who was awake at night, trying to save lives. Sadly, in an era of media dominance, ‘Reel heroes’ get projected as ‘Real heroes’. The real become invisible behind the glittery mist. Masses fail to envisage the bigger real picture and are grossly mistaken by another projected story.

The old adage “All that glitters is not gold” is particularly relevant in current era of media domination, where media projection shapes the perception and may defy the reality. Media has dominated our lives and can sway the opinion formation of masses.

Media projections create a mirage of illusional glitter wherein there is blurring of real life from the reel life of heroes. The larger-than-life unreal persona of the celebrities on screen looks too charming and sometimes becomes undeniable and dominates mind of masses. The super-human characters played out in films and television appear to be too real. The problem arises when the imaginary characters of the reel life stories are emulated in real life. The naivety of masses to perceive the projected character as the real one goes beyond a reasonable thought process and imagination.

These roles played in films are not really act of inspiration in real life as the actual purpose accomplished in the end of a movie is entertainment of society and business for themselves. In present era, more people will choose to watch the criminal trial of a celebrity rather than the biography of a truly great human being.

At the best, a particular projected character (and not individual acting star) may be a role model. An actor or super star, is simply doing his work of “acting” in the end. This work of acting may bring an entertainment of few hours at the most.

One should not stray away from the wisdom to choose between what we consume merely for our entertainment or face in real life. One needs to differentiate between rationale truth behind the celebrity gimmicks in the media and exaggerated sensationalism. Sensation created merely for a commercial successful venture should not be allowed to overpower the judgments of real life.

But the problem starts, when these false perceptions created merely by a projected glimmer takes the shimmer away from the real worthy. The real professionals and people who are worthy of glory become invisible behind the glittery mist, a haze, the unreal and the unhelpful in real life.

A soldier contributes to our society much more in real terms. Even a junior doctor saves many lives in a day in emergencies as compared to work of a superstar in films. A teacher, nurse or scientist have contribution which is more fruitful to our generation. The reel actor merely imitates the real life lived and actual work done by real heroes like soldier, doctor or teacher. Someone who only acts and behaves like one, is respected and paid thousand times or more than ‘the real one’.

In reality, people need more than mere entertainment, reel role models and actors in their real lives. Unfortunately, reel projection for purpose of entertainment is more easier to enact and has become more profitable than actual performance in real life.