{"id":157,"date":"2005-03-24T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=157"},"modified":"2005-03-24T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T04:27:00","slug":"casting-grouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2005\/03\/24\/casting-grouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Grouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">She alighted at the station and had her first good look at Mumbai.. the place where her silverscreen dreams would take shape.Although hers was a stereotypical story of a small town girl dreaming of making it big in Bollywood, she was sure that hers would be a success story, because she was sure of her talents&#8230;. and assets.. and she had a definite plan&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">she had taken up all the courses in fashion, modelling and acting that her small town could offer&#8230; and her small town already boasted of a precedent in making it big in bollywood.. but she was sure she wanted to make it on her own.. and not take her predecessor&#8217;s help.. but her predecessor had given her one crucial info that was essential to her plan- the casting couch, its existence and the way it worked, and the &#8216;contact&#8217; persons&#8230; she had her parents&#8217; approval on her bollywood dreams, but even to them, she had not revealed her plan&#8230; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">She called a taxi, and asked the driver to take her to the 5 star hotel where she had booked a room&#8230;.. not that she had the money to spare, but this was crucial to the plan&#8230; she checked into the room, and thought about reading the paper, since it was almost 3 days since she had read them&#8230; always important to keep oneself updated about bollywood.. but she decided to do that after she kicked off her plan&#8230;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">she started calling up the contact persons, and got her first shock, for the responses ranged from &#8216;do you think i am dumb?&#8217; to &#8216;which channel are you calling from &#8216; to plain abuse&#8230; she wondered what was going on and decided to take a shower before proceeding&#8230;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">to jail!! the cops barged into the room, minutes after her phone calls, and arrested her for trying to trap people.. they talked something about an established villain having been &#8216;exposed&#8217; a couple of days back on a news channel&#8230;. she said she didnt know a thing about it&#8230; and was only a wannabe actress.. she was so afraid she even told them about her plan- to use the casting couch- where she wouldnt struggle (and therefore could bypass the &#8216;struggling actress&#8217; phase).. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">but they werent convinced&#8230;. she reckoned she knew who her enemies were &#8211; a nexus of actresses who didnt want competition and news channels who wanted TRPs&#8230;.. she also realised that what she needed now was shakti, tan ki nahi, par man ki&#8230;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:courier new;\">until next time, news channels cant help broadcasting and filmmakers cant help casting&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She alighted at the station and had her first good look at Mumbai.. the place where her silverscreen dreams would take shape.Although hers was a stereotypical story of a small town girl dreaming of making it big in Bollywood, she was sure that hers would be a success story, because she was sure of her <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2005\/03\/24\/casting-grouch\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}