After working as a film journalist and critic, Rajeev Masand has now joined Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar‘s talent management company Dharma Cornerstone Agency (DCA) as Chief Operating Officer (COO).
According to Bollywood Hungama, Masand is all set to join next week and will be working as the COO of the company. “Karan and other top authorities at Dharma believe that he’ll be the right person for the job and help them in scouting fresh talent and managing them,” read the article.
On whether Masand would still work as a journalist, the response was unclear.
“He has been heard saying that he’s taking a sabbatical from journalism. However, looking at other journalists who quit the field completely when getting into film production and related business, it seems like Rajeev Masand, too, would go the same way,” a source was quoted as saying.
The news did not sit well with Kangana Ranaut, who is known for having an opinion — intense and mostly negative, at that — about everything.
“Rajeev wrote the most poisonous blind items about Sushant and me. He openly licked mediocre star kids and gave negative reviews to genuinely good films. Even as a journalist, he was always Karan Johar’s minion. Good he left journo facade and joined KJO officially,” she posted.
Rajeev wrote the most poisonous blind items about Shushant and me, he openly licked mediocre star kids and gave negative reviews to genuinely good films, even as a journalist he was always KJO minion. Good he left jurno facade and joined KJO officially 👍 https://t.co/Y9jkL9D9wU
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 15, 2021
However, this wasn’t all. Kangana further took this opportunity to point out how the industry lacks ethics, with the “movie mafia” controlling all aspects of media and publications to turn them in their own favour, running smear campaigns against those not considered ‘their own’.
This is how movie mafia hijacks key people in every place,agents/critics/journalists/distributors/award jury they plant their minions in your personal life to ruin you from every angle, they ban you n ruin your image, many succumb few survive. Need strict laws in movie industry. https://t.co/7ryXrTPoBm
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 15, 2021
“This is how movie mafia hijacks key people in every place,” she pointed out. “Agents/critics/journalists/distributors/award jury, they plant their minions in your personal life to ruin you from every angle. They ban you and ruin your image. Many succumb, few survive. Need strict laws in movie industry.”
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