Effects of Nepotism on Professionalism

Nepotism Is Not Just A Bollywood Problem

It cripples all of us, in every profession, at every socioeconomic level.

Nepotism” is that the practice of favouritism supported kinship. The word finds its origins from the Italian nipote, which suggests nephew. It had been first utilized in the context of bishops granting favour to their “nephews”, who were often their illegitimate sons. The preferential treatment could range from bequeathing jobs, wealth, property, or maybe priesthood upon them.

Introduction

Presently, nepotism is arising as an enormous issue in Bollywood. The roots of nepotism are strong enough to ruin the whole industry. What is Nepotism? And how does it affect professionalism? Let’s try to know in detail about nepotism. It is an inappropriate use of power to get jobs or other benefits from young family or friends. Nepotism is derived from the Greek word ‘NEPO’ which means nephew. According to some actors who achieved success on their own nepotism ruins the careers of several talented actors. Nepotism exists in every industry. However, it’s brought in additional negative effects on Bollywood and it aggravates the craze of the audience. People who have ample influence in Bollywood are taking advantage to help their near and dear ones to get a good job. Sometimes, the actors lack acting qualities, and still, they continue to get works, which is unfair. It’s a bitter truth in Bollywood that the seeds of Bollywood came up as a big tree and it’s affecting the careers of good actors. Death of Sushant Singh Rajput triggered the nepotism topic in Bollywood It was existing for a long time. But the recent death of actor Sushant Sign Rajput triggered the topic. His fans and some of the Bollywood actors reveal the fact that nepotism was gradually ruining the career of the late actor and it was the reason behind his suicide.

In this regards, Kangana Ranaut’s remarks is worth to mention. She has directly accused Karan Johar as the flag bearer of nepotism. She strongly believes that nepotism ruined the career of the late actor and he was marked as an outsider within the Bollywood. She also called karan Johar as ‘snooty and intolerant’ towards outsiders. And if any actor raises his/her voice they're either suppress or they're treated badly with negative comments.
Huma Qureshi in an interview said that may the star kids have talent but the opportunities they get make it easy to develop their career. They are easily selected for big budget movies and it becomes easy to gain attention of the audience. On the other hand, other actors find it difficult to get selected for a good movie and sometimes they have more expertise than the star kids. So, they have to struggle more and it becomes difficult to start their career in Bollywood.

 

Yes, the start kids need to prove themselves to the audience to survive in the industry. But there are good actors behind the screens who just play the side roles and never selected in lead roles. It’s time to mention no to nepotism and that we should specialize in talent and that we can get the simplest actors arising with amazing performances. We need to explore the real art and we have to come up with the actors who know how to perform.
Indian audience need to wake up and it’s time to stop nepotism. We need to recognize the real actors and there would be a renaissance in Bollywood. The audience would like to see the art portrayed by the actors on the screen and it might motivate people to measure life. If we look into the current situation the star kids are getting heavily trolled and it can be said that Bollywood is going through a negative phase.

Now let’s try to know how nepotism affects professionalism in office, organization, MNC’s and other work places?

Companies who practice nepotism might be in danger of getting sued by employees. Nepotism could end in a lawsuit if an employee or potential employee has proof that a corporation is using unfair hiring practices. Also, there might be a legal risk if an employer or manager shows favoritism when it involves salary, benefits and promotions towards their relations and friends, neglecting the needs of their other employees. When nepotism features a negative effect on a workplace, employee morale decreases, which affect how smoothly the corporate operates and whether employees are productive. Employees may feel unappreciated, and as a result, they may lose their motivation to achieve their goals and accomplish their day-to-day tasks.

You see nepotism in Bollywood is out there on display for everybody to ascertain . But the important nepotism that has caused such a lot stagnation, corruption and oppression in our country is way less obvious but even as pervasive. There is a belief that keeping money inside the family is that the best thanks to protect assets and also keep subsequent generation in restraint. It's the MBA grad who had his parents take out a loan to pay for his course, and when he finally gets a job at a family-run company he finds himself creating marketing plans, economic forecasts and presentation materials that find yourself being presented at formal meetings by his employer's college-going child.

It's the young doctor looking to hitch a reputed practice but is unable to afford to start out his own clinic so he goes to figure for a family medicine . The husband and wife doctor team run the show and in fact , as soon as their son has passed school of medicine (by whatever means necessary), he inherits the practice. It's the young architect who dreams of designing buildings but doesn't have the language skills to land a complicated position during a top boutique firm. So he finishes up during a family where he designs the buildings then the owner's son who otherwise gallivants from parties to vacations comes in and provides the building a reputation and is given rank within the firm.

 

 

Last year it had been reported that 15 of the highest 20 business groups in India are family-owned. They collectively manage over ₹26 lakh crore of assets. Now, not everyone who has succeeded was born with a old money . We know the rags to riches story of Dhirubhai Ambani. But we also know the story of his two sons.

Some of the famous example of Nepotism in India are:

· In Bollywood, Karan Johar introduced Varun and Alia because he knew their fathers and their background. But there are many talents who doesn’t have the same background.

· Even in the South, Nagarjuna introduced both of his sons Akhil and Chinnya and they are doing good but they are there due to the family heritage they share.

· In Politics, INC is run by a family who has been ruling the party for a few decade now. Pt. Nehru to Smt. Indira Gandhi to Rajeev Gandhi to Sonia and now Rahul Gandhi, etc.

· The music industry also promotes the home singers only with a big name behind them.

· Apart from all these, we must really respect people who haven’t taken their family name for granted like Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, etc. They are the ones among many who have earned it with their brilliant works.

· To handover Chief Ministership of Bihar by Lalu Prasad Yadav to his wife Rabri Devi while the former was charged for corruption.

· To handover the leadership of Indian National Congress Party to Rajiv Gandhi after the sad assassination of his mother Indira Gandhi and later to Rahul Gandhi.

· In U.P. the handing over of Chief Ministership from Molayam Singh Yadav to Akhilesh Yadav.

· In Odisha the handing over of Power of Suprimo of BJD party to Navin Pattanayak, son of Biju Pattanayak.

· Aayush Sharma, Salman Khan’s brother-in-law, during a still from his upcoming film Loveratri. The actor recently said it might have taken an extended time for his Bollywood dreams to require off had Khan not launched him.

Conclusion

Nepotism should be over soon because nepotism always creates controversy by stopping the path of professionalism and does not allow the real talent to come out, due to which the workers working in companies, organization, or in Bollywood get demoralized and suffer emotionally and financially because they feel helpless to represent their abilities in front of the world, due to which they become victims of depression and decide to suicide, which is bad news for the country. Nepotism also affects the country's GDP. So the end of nepotism is necessary now the public now wants to end nepotism from everywhere weather Bollywood, Office, Politics, Organization etc. After the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput this led to a wave of resentment in the public against nepotism which, in my opinion is justifiable to quite an extent because ditch being successful, it's extremely difficult for an outsider to even enter the Bollywood industry. All the actors and actresses are busy promoting their children and the latter keep getting opportunities but it becomes next to impossible for outsider to get work. It was justifiable for the people to get so upset and the result of this is perceptible even today, the trailer of “Sadak 2”(starring Alia Bhatt) is one of the most disliked video on YouTube. A few days ago a trailer of a movie called “Kaali Peeli” (starring Ananya Pandey) was also released there were a numerous dislikes on that as well, clearly showing what the public wants. Especially since they made a song which goes “Beyoncé Sharma jayegi” if they make such a trashy songs what do they expect? The actors in such film do not have the mettle of acting and yet real talent is being denied so, it was not surprising that the public was a irate over nepotism.