There's too much celebrity culture, feels writer Amit Chadhuri

BANGALORE: Writer and musician Amit Chaudhury feels that the most important change in the last decade has been supremacy of the free market and the way of looking at and valuing things. "The celebrity culture fuelled by Bollywood is a very significant change. Bollywood has overtaken everything else and has become almost a sole domain. It's tyrannical," he told TOI in an informal conversation after an interaction with a gathering in the city on Thursday.
The late 70s and early 80s in Mumbai was when corporate ethos and culture underwent a drastic change, he said."I am interested in the status of the artist in that changed ethos. I've tried to see those changes through the eyes of an awkward adolescent boy," Amit said referring to his latest book, The Immortals, parts of which he read out to the gathering.