Aamir Khan pondering on his dog called Shahrukh, sitting in the remote hillside of Panchgani.
Amitabh Bachchan, in short and crisp paragraphs, musing away in his hotel room.
These blogs from the two supershots of bollywood have caught the fancy of fans, media and the industry alike. And they had been creating great waves as well, for their sheer intensity, simplicity, honest approach and above all..for some of those blunt comments...surely intended to stir the scandal-crazy minds a bit.
Look at the latest Aamir blog entry that had been making the whole world sit up and take notice. In this blog, Aamir reveals he has a pup named Shahrukh in his Panchgani house. And he did not name it, he says. It was named by the ex-caretakers of that house and the dog came along with the purchase.
We can choose to believe him or not. But, the point is, the way he has written the blog.
Contrary to the argument and the criticism, nowhere in the blog, he has blurted out anything harsh against his archrival. And, still the mockery stands out. That is what makes this particular blog entry very very cute, I believe.
Subtle. This is what Aamir does. (As you know, Shahrukh is busy teaching his IPL team the ABCD of business management in cricket.)
Celebrity blogs, if given a honest and real life treatment would always stand out. It is like a real life show you get to watch...a peek in the real life incidents of these stars. But, forget those fancy brainless blogs come in the name of certain stars. The blogging tool manipulated or rather exploited by their PR for sheer plugging.
And then, here we are, the aam janta, jotting down our good for nothing musings, and most of the time, nobody reads it!
We are not popular…we matter to only our close friends and relatives.
Still, we write about what we ate today for breakfast, what did we gift Mom for birthday, the plans for the next weekend, how ugly we felt the last hotel food we had, how we rate the last movie we watched etc etc....
In all of us, I feel, there is an urge to emulate the lifestyles of those celebrities we see all around us. But, we are not able to do that....so what should we do?
One ego-cushion is these blogs.
We write our blogs and circulate among friends.....add the url as a sign-off to our mails...expecting even those hapless strangers - who receive our tasteless forward mails - read it and admire our creativity....
It is just one method....everyone can't do it....you should know how to write....
But, talking about the public, there are various games people play to get noticed....grab eyeballs....their endless thirst for admiration.
We have often heard about kids with rare skills..........some of them can drive even before learning how to walk by themselves....some of them can solve any maths problem......some of them can get you the names of country capitals in a flash...
But, I wonder...why these parents are so much publicity-crazy. Let their little ones have a life....Keep the skill to yourself and use it for better things......I don't know what happen to all these kids later....we never get to see any update......they end up in the capsule programmes coming at the end of a news telecast...bringing their parents some instant stardom in their locality.
I hate vanity.
So, me hating vanity, how does it matter to others....?
What makes me writing down this piece of blog....and rather forcefully conveying my ideas about vanity? Answer is simple. I want the reader to read this blog, and appreciate and admire my hatred for vanity.
So, who is the biggest fraud here?