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Suhel Seth: The man who ‘collected beautiful people’ and almost got away with everything
Stories were shared about a black Mercedes glittering in the front porch of his New Friends Colony home. And the women, so many women, that went in and out of his life.
Suhel Seth is “everyone’s friend”, said one acquaintance, but right now, “I don’t want my name anywhere near this”.
The walls protecting Lutyens’ Delhi rise in the shape of an inverted pyramid, its corridors of access getting wider the higher you climb.
And Seth climbed all the way to the top, managing to fashion a legacy out of a contact list.
With friends like Union minister Arun Jaitley, industrialists Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani, and legal eagle Raian Karanjawala — a selfie with Shah Rukh Khan and references to high-profile journalists like Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt thrown in — Seth pretty much sits cross-legged and safe in the middle of a very rich and powerful nexus of India’s elite.
Today, celebrity consultant Seth’s branding expertise is facing its truest test as he grapples with the biggest setback to his reputation to date — the multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault that have surfaced against him in the recent past.
#MeToo avalanched into a storm Seth couldn’t prepare for, and, subsequently, one he can’t immediately fix.
And perhaps the greatest irony is that the hashtag that felled him was in part the gift of an American actor he hosted at one of his glitzy parties very recently — Rose McGowan, the first woman to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, was photographed partying at the advertising mogul’s house just last year.
Seth, for whom being seen with the right people in the right place at the right time was of primordial importance, is suddenly nowhere to be found. Twitter and Facebook are silent, and the recurring guest stars in the biopic of his everyday life haven’t spotted him on set. Even the website of his branding consultancy company, C Last Updated: Amitabh Bachchan has been unlike any Indian. No one man has straddled so many generations; endured the adulation of billions of people not just in India but across the world, and has not let stardom take away either his humility or his ability to connect not just with his admirers but more than that with causes that he has readily endorsed and supported. To call him a star would be to do disservice to him. To call him a superstar would be derogatory: he is just an outstanding human being with outstanding talent. A man who rose from the ranks even though he was born into an illustrious family. A family who gave the world his father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan and many years later welcomed a superlative actor in the form of Jaya Bhaduri. It is not easy to be in the limelight for so long and with such intense gaze. Nor is it easy to have every move of yours dissected for public analysis: when you are able to cross that Rubicon of probity and discourse, you rise above the very concept of being human. Which is why Amitabh Bachchan will remain the special human being he is. Not because of the films he has done, or before that, the many plays in Calcutta. Not for the sacrifice he made for a friend Rajiv Gandhi and joined politics much against his will or the manner in which that Rajiv’s family moved away from him. Nor will he be remembered just for brining smiles to people’s faces when the unsung would walk away with Rs 1 crore on a television show that he began hosting and which today has become the aspirational rage of many an Indian home. Like many Indians, my first memories of Amitabh Bachchan were associated with his craft. I still remember, as a young school student being taken by my parents to see a play of his in Calcutta in which my dear friend, Cedric Spanos (later my co-actor too) and he The following is a list of notable Martinians, former pupils and masters of the three schools established by Claude Martin. La Martinière Lyon was divided into three independent colleges in the 1960s: • Divya Chadha Manek OBE- Clinical trial lead at U.K. Covid Vaccine Taskforce. Awarded an OBE by King Charles for her contribution towards the development of a Covid Vaccine. The list of Old Martinians from the Lucknow School includes: #MeToo: Author Ira Trivedi Calls Out Chetan Bhagat, Suhel Seth #MeToo: Author Ira Trivedi Calls Out Chetan Bhagat, Suhel Seth Over the past week, as India’s #MeToo movement grips the country, I have spent several hours, over twenty, on prime time television, both in English and Hindi, making sure people are listening. I have been debating against men (and women) who believe that the #MeToo movement is just about defaming men; who believe that women use it to catapult themselves into the limelight; who just want to live out their personal vendettas. I have tried my best to make the point that the #MeToo movement isn't about sending men to jail or naming-and-shaming or piling on the allegations. It is about shattering the assumptions that underpin the perceived and severely skewed -- power dynamic between men and women in India. It is about understanding the basic fact that there are bounds around each woman’s personal space that cannot be invaded without permission, that are not – and cannot -- be defined by men. It is about creating better and safer working and living conditions for women. Ultimately it is a way for women to tell their stories and by doing so, to educate others. Every woman’s story is important and a lens into how pervasive the issue is. While I have actively participated in the debates, my heart has been clawed by guilt and cowardice. For I too have a #MeToo story and I haven't had the courage to speak up. I am sharing this story because I feel that it is my responsibility to do so. Without me telling this story, I do not deserve the sort of platform that I get to speak and write on women’s issues. It is up to each one of us to do our part – big or small -- in a much needed and long overdue chance for change, and with this piece, I am doing mine. I met Chetan Bhagat close to a decade ago at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He was moderating a panel “Teen Deviya/ Three Goddesses” that I was a part of. Back then, Chetan Suhel Seth: Amitabh Bachchan's 70 years of adulation
October 11 will be a celebration of a man who has stood his ground in the wake of many adversities.
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