True story: I have a Devdas shopping bag. When I was out at the grocery store this weekend, an Indian woman rang up my groceries and commented on it.

"Do you like Bollywood?"

"Oh, yes!"

"Who is your favorite actor?"

"Working now? Akshay Kumar."

"Really? I was hoping you weren't going to say Abhishek Bachchan."

"How come? Don't you like him?"

"He is just so arrogant! And Aishwarya is even worse. She's an embarrassment to Indian women. Did you see her on Letterman a few years ago?"

"No."

"Well, she makes us all look stupid."

I didn't have anything to say to that. Of course, I had to come home and immediately youtube Aishwarya on Letterman. I suppose this is where different cultural perspectives come in. While Aishwarya certainly doesn't come across as a genius, she doesn't seem stupid to me at all. More striking is Letterman's paternalistic attitude, as if her career as an actress doesn't count because he has never heard of her or her movies before.

Still, I did hear Aish and Abhi on the BBC's Love Bollywood a few weeks ago talking about Sakaar Raj (and has anyone seen RGV's Contract? I heard it's FLOPPED.) and they did sound very arrogant and full of themselves. Where is the line between confidence and entitlement? Between being a great artist and one who proclaims that he or she is a great artist? Can any celebrity children raised in the bubble of entitlement become great artists?