They don’t act like Gods!

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He waved his hands standing in the balcony at his Mumbai residence and fans gathered like devotees to get one view of his. It was when Mumbai was called Bombay, during my visit I was told by the guide that every Sunday at dusk, Amitabh Bachchan stood at his balcony to give ‘darshan’ to his ‘devotees’. Such crazy fans I wondered. Earlier it was difficult to even get a glance of big stars. Today every celebrity maintains a personal blog keeping it open for comments. In simple words, now they don’t act like Gods!

Most of the celebrities are tweeting through twitter.com. Wherever on earth they are they make sure to pen down messages for their followers.

In fact even the media has been getting entertainment news through these blogs. Coming back to Mr Bachchan again, when he wrote on his blog that his house ‘Prateeksha’ was also affected due to heavy rains, who also helped few women on the road giving them a lift while shifting to ‘Jalsa’— this did become a story.

It is surprising though, Mallika Sherawat has been followed by 7606 people— these figures are highest even compared to Priyanka Chopra’s profile onTwitter. Mallika recently found tweeting useful as she was away to Los Angeles posting messages on her experiences in Hollywood.

While Mallika was left alone by media, Priyanka’s eye infection became news the day she posted it. Priyanka writes, “Distressed today… have a mad red eye! It sucks…,”.And there it became big news that the former Miss World had eye infection. I thought it was silly!

These Bollywood divas aren’t the only ones being followed on Twitter. Shashi Tharoor has more than 16,000 followers on Twitter beating the Bollywood queens; this does not surprise me though. Nevertheless entertainers grab all the attention and boast of having many fans in their admirers list, today’s young politicians have changed the meaning of being called a ’star’. Apart from Indian celebrities, it is Barack Obama who is using Twitter, having more than 1, 75,000 followers.