Harish, I prefer to belong to the discerning and well-informed minority rather than the majority with a sheep mentality.
Mr Bachchan too, just like you, ran away from the responsibility of developing and improving public taste; he never acted in good films.
Instead, he chose to align with the existing (cheap) public taste, and degraded it further by acting in roles where he would always act big and take law in his hands. Remember something like "Wherever I stand, that's where the queue starts'? Spreading lawlessness, nothing less! You call such persons great?!
