The world is full of people in awe of movie stars and who dream to be in their shoes. Then there are those kinds of people who try to live their lives through these celebrities. People all dream of making it big in the world of showbiz and for other people to recognize them and love them. With stardom, the interest of people grows as does their curiosity to know everything about them, but how much of peeping into their lives is really appropriate?
The celebrities are made to live under microscopes for satisfying curiosities of such people. The media jumps right in to this to make their dough out of these common people. Especially where the love lives of these celebrities are concerned, this curiosity of the people and media seems to take a life of its own. One such over exposed couple is Abhishek and Aishwarya.
“Abhiash” or “Abhiwaria” are some of the names the media have come up for this couple. Just because the foreign media have a habit of combining the names of two celebrities who come together, such as “Brangelina” or “TomKat.” Is that reason enough for the India media to jump into this arena? The media circus is at its crescendo with the couple’s upcoming nuptials on April 20, 2007.
Fair enough, Abhishek is claimed to be the most eligible bachelor in Bollywood, what with lineage like Amitabh Bachan and Jaya Bhaduri. Aishwarya is supposed to be one of the most beautiful women in the world so some interest in them is reasonable, but is this reason enough to fill up the newspapers, magazines, and television channels so frequently?
The more the couple tries to keep their celebration under wraps, the crazier the media interest becomes. Every minute detail is being dug up in the name of entertainment. The details go to such heights that one has to wonder, is this really entertainment? The world is full of people who want to know about them, but is this really what the public wants to know about a celebrity on a daily basis? It feels more like media-created hype.
Article comments
1 - Karen
Hi...I'm Karen from Malaysia a a very big fan of the starts who are now coupled.
Now, in review with the wedding of the year of Abhishek & Ash being so discrete, I can only understand why they would want it to be a private and solem affair.
However, to my opinion it is due to the public / fans' affection and media's publicity that these folks are standing where they are today (rich & famous of course). As gratitude I would think that the leat they could do is to humbly owe back to the public by letting / invite us (the public / fans) to view the marriage ceremony (of course not right at their door step)but on screen (TV / internet etc) and this would very much (i'm sure) be appreciated by the viewers and also keep the crowd from getting in their ways during the ceremony as we would obviously be glued to our tv's.... Now this is what I wld call real life bollywood screening...
2 - Aishwarya
Karen I appreciate what you have written and it would be just great for the fans if all the celebrities decide to air their weddings for the public. I agree then the franctic public interest won't be the same and there won't be so many fans or media waiting in front of location where it is to happen. But on the other hand this is not a scripted movie so they would not be comfortable or natural for having to put up a show for the public. And some of them wouldn't be able to make pots of money selling their pictures either! So in a way it is fair for them to want to keep such occasions private. But I was surprised in the case of Abhishek and Aishwarya not even coming out after the ceremony to acknowledge the crowd who have been waiting for a glimspe of them. It is not like they would loose anything if they had come out and acknowledge their fans. So fans should take a hint how much they really mean to these celebrities.