Hola People,
Remember the time when meeting a celebrity in person was a dream come true? Catching a glimpse of Amitabh Bachchan, or shaking hands with Shahrukh was something people would die for! I have come from that generation. Not so much but still. And I have seen communication evolve over the years. First comes gmail, then gtalk, then orkut, then facebook and then comes the Baap of All, TWITTER!
BAAP bole toh father! Because you can live a dream here without being yourself. You can act cool everywhere, on facebook and on gmail too. But on twitter you can act cool before the cool people, since rumour has it that all the cool people are on twitter! And I too am a relatively new twitter - maniac!
So what happened with twitter? All the so called stars (read Bollywood stars) gather around here talking about what they had for breakfast, what they wore for an award show, have nasty virtual fights, pass remarks and abuse. So its like keeping a tab on what a person is doing, except that the person is a celebrity! So, twitter has made the stars accessible to all of us. We can judge them with their good or bad cyber behaviour! Whereas earlier when we did not know them that well, we would judge them only by there screen presence and filmy stardom.
Now my point being, according to me for the celebrities twitter is an emotional gutter and not a way to communicate with the fans. Because they know that the media and the fraternity is following for sure! So there hatred for a fellow costar, clarifications and complaints are carried by the media on their will and convenience. I know because I am a part of the Entertainment Media fraternity, where so many times my colleague would say, "Arrey check twitter, pata kya x or y ki ladaai hogayi." or my senior producer comes and says - "Twitter pe dekho zara, kya chal raha hai." Kya chal raha hai iss the Bollywood Tamasha on twitter 24/7! And with each of 'their' tweet, we and the fans get hooked a little more that last time on twitter!
FYI, Shahrukh Khan this day has 1,811,052. Amitabh has 2,087,676 followers and a big time attention seeking nobody like Kamaal R Khan has 36,402 followers. I still do not know why, and why we do not miss the old days of knowing the stars a little less, as it does no favour to the fans but bring down the value of stardom. The Celebrities are what we make them. And so I would want everyone to pull off a little from the Bollywood Tamasha on twitter! There is much more to do on twitter. Have a good laugh there with the witty ones and give attention to the ones who deserve it !
