written by - SHIVESH BHATIA
blog - http://shivesh-writerspoint.blogspot.in/
Welcome to India, where everybody is more interested in other’s lives than his or her own. We all have encountered ‘inquisitive’ aunties who have a long list of questions ready, as soon as we step out of our house.And when it comes to celebrities, we all get into the inquisitive aunty avatar to dig out as much information about them as we can. Yes, we are a self-proclaimed celebrity obsessed nation!
I don’t know whom my Chinki didi married, but I know what Kareena Kapoor wore on her wedding, who designed the wedding invitation, the guest list and the honeymoon destination. That is how I am and that is how we all are!
Most of us pull out HT City and Delhi Times from the main newspaper and start our day by updating ourselves with the fresh news about our favorite celebrities.
We are so obsessed with them that we make their few extra kilos a baby bump, a movie together means an affair and giving someone’s party a miss is a dead sure rivalry.We want to know why Anushka Sharma wore a Masaba and not a Sabyasachi. Is Twinkle Khanna pregnant again? Why Abhishek Bachchan and Karishma Kapoor never got married? We are inquisitive aunties in true sense!
A swollen celebrity lip is a good enough news to become a headline here, followed by rumours of a lip job and sting operations on the surgeon who supposedly did that. Here a father might not be enlightened about how many tattoos her daughter has but we always keep ourselves updated on what Deepika Padukone is doing to her ‘RK’ tattoo. In India, we might not have a roof on our heads but hey, there is something as important as that- Sunny Leone is looking for a house in Mumbai! We are people who hesitate to donate money but when it comes to laying hands on a tissue paper an actress used to wipe off her make up, we are ready to spend more than anyone else. While many of us might not be able to handle our own relationships and marriages, we don’t mind keeping a track of celebrity lovebirds and telling them to get married soon. Actually, we love it!
Here we need an Amitabh Bachchan to attract tourists to Gujarat, a Kajol to sell a toffee and an Amir Khan to tell people about Atithi Devo Bhava.
Writing horoscopes of celebrities and predicting how their next year will be is an all time favorite task of our tarot card readers there. And yes, my friend might not give me a treat on her birthday, but I do get to feast on cupcakes on Hritik Roshan’s birthday, he is her favorite actor after all! In India, the most popular T.V show is Big Boss- watching celebrities brush their teeth, cook food, wash utensils and doing make up- Ah bliss! Another popular show in this celebrity obsessed nation is 'Live my life'. God bless the ones who conceptualized this show – fans get to step into shoes of their favorite superstars and get to spend ‘ intimate moments with the Stars themselves’.
Yaha celebrity raj hai!
They have crazy fans- who marry their photographs, who are ready to pay them in crores for a two-minute performance and who buy whatever they endorse. They can sell pictures of their babies for what ever they want and yes, in India there’ll be thousands of people who desperately want to buy them.
And it doesn’t end here. We are much more generous than this when it comes to our love for celebrities. We also make their children stars. Sridevi’s daughter, Jhanvi Kapoor is a star at fifteen. Now don’t ask me why? I just told you- “Sridevi’s daughter!”
Being emotional humans, we might just sometimes out of love make a celebrity God. Rajnikanth has experienced this obsession down south. So, who is next?
We follow (read-stalk) celebrities. Their daily life is a matter of national concern. We discuss them on dinner tables (read- all the time) and this is how obsessed we are, with our celebrities.
This is why India is a celebrity obsessed nation!
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( screen shots from- http://www.missmalini.com)
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