Bollywood Strugglers

Bollywood Strugglers
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The strugglers wanting to become Bollywood Badshahs, Bollywood next pin up poster boy , Bollywoods Heart throbs , they come to the Industry , running with tattered testimonials , photographs , portfolios, running from one production office to the other , some stand outside Ram Gopal Vermas Factory, some stand outside Sanjay Guptas office , some stand out side Madhur Bhandarkars house , some pursue Mahesh Manjrekar , others compromise and hit the trail of the offices of Ekta Kapoor and Balaji Television..
It is just grabbing success by the balls and not letting it go.. make or break.. and dreams die hard....glamour glitz, the hysteria of signing autographs, posing with their die hard fans.. and close relatives waiting to snatch you like vultures, enemies wishing to bury you soon.. but if you make it than Carter Road beckons you the new bungalow and the parapet you slept on an empty stomach.. and my poem...


With dreams bigger than
Their fists can clench
Heat and dust
Summer winter
In monsoonal drench
A piece of luck
From fates they wrench
Known as Bollywood Strugglers
The parapet of carter road
Their sleeping
walking talking bench
Failure
Falling headlong in
a treacherous trench
Despair,, empty stomach sleep
Dried fish stench
A thirst
That even time
Cant quench
And fists of furies
Holding hard
Wont let go
Unclench