Celebrity Worship

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Re: Celebrity Worship

@Huma

So my mother is addicted to Kon Banega Crorepati these days and I end up having to watch it with her sometimes. Oh tey em tey gee, what’s with Amitabh worshipping? I get he’s a superstar but seriously he’s just that… a movie star… not a saint, not a “people’s hero”… what has he done for the people of India for them to be idolizing him like this? People have elevated his status to that of some divine figure… Countless times on that show I heard people say things like “Aap tau hamare bhagwaan hain”, “Aap se baat ho gayi, hum dhannay ho gaye”, “Aap se mill liya, ab paisa waisa kuch nahin chahiye zindagi mein”.

shudders Just. Stunned.

I’m not trivializing their talent or the years of hard work the celebs put in for our entertainment but there’s a difference between admiring someone for their work and going completely overboard with the obsession. This quote summarises my rant - “If we confuse heroes and celebrities, we deprive ourselves of real role models.”

Discuss.

u haven’t heard abt Rajni Kanth yet :;),he’s like a God to them,ppl shower his posters with milk…