Communication – the human connection, they say is the key to personal and career success. And the Hindi film world knows it too well. They know visibility matters and hence apart from television, newspaper and magazine interviews they make themselves available on Twitter.
From veteran Shammi Kapoor to stunner Deepika Padukone, Bollywood is busy tweeting. If a wheelchair bound 79-year-old Shammi Kapoor largely tweets about how he can't act now and about his dialysis process — “Undergoing dialysis now. I am feeling good today. Thank you all for niceties shown by twitters. Keeps me going,” reads one of his tweets — Salman Khan makes people laugh with his blend of Hindi, Urdu and English.
Interestingly, Shammi Kapoor is following beautiful young ladies like Preity Zinta, Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone, apart from Abhishek Bachchan, Emran Khan, SRK and Karan Johar. He also tweets about his knowledge of ipods and wifis.
Hilarious tweets
Salman Khan is among the most hilarious with his tweets. He often seems to advise people and is promoting his latest film “Dabang” too. He also tweets about his presence at IIFA, new endorsements and films he is likely to do, “Batao kaun se baat pe v laughing?” he asks, and advises, “Honesty is like this candle, vil nt give u lite bt put on mountain top vil b seen fr miles n miles!” It seems Arbaaz Khan, who is making “Dabang”, persuaded Salman to get on Twitter and is promoting his picture of tweeting in between shots.
If Abhishek Bachchan's tweets are among the most boring, hovering round his presence at Cannes, his latest film “Raavan”, “ma”, “Ash” and “father”, Shah Rukh Khan comes across as a warm family man and a friend to his followers.
Among his warmest tweets are: … “been completely out of touch with reality except when i wrestle with my kids & they beat me up” and “Fridays nites special cos get to sleep with the kids. fidgets...kicks...kisses...hugs...sleep talking...most peaceful sleep experience!” At other places he tweets about “Kabhi Kabhi”, his latest home production, his business, a book he is writing and not getting time to finish and advising Emma Thompson to act in Hindi films! He also sends wishes to Hrithik Roshan for “Kites” releasing this Friday.
And quite expectedly, a rather quiet guy in Bollywood, Hrithik's tweets are just personal messages exchanged with friends and as tools for promoting “Kites”. He has posted the first review of “Kites” and in one of his old tweets blames the media for “sabotaging” his personal life, but adds, “I forgive them”.
Sushmita Sen is leaving no stone unturned to promote “I am She”, her new venture to promote Miss India Universe, while Katrina Kaif prefers posting pictures of news on her. “Me? hot and sexy?,” she answers in one of the tweets, “Adding, “Nah. People should see me at home. I'm painfully unglamorous. Just another working girl making a living.” And “I will marry in two years” type of statements.
For the most part, Kareena Kapoor is promoting “Golmaal 3”. Rujuta Divekar's book, “Don't Lose your Mind, Lose your Weight” which has an introduction by Kareena, “is a bestseller” she tweets. She also tweets about how exhausted she is after shooting in most disinteresting language, “Just another day”.
Touching base
Saif doesn't seem to tweet himself. His twitter account is full of pictures and lays emphasis on his latest film “Agent Vinod” going on the floor and his interviews after he received the Padma Shri.
Twitter seems an easy way out for actors to stay in touch with fans and friends in the film industry. Among many actors including SRK, journalists and industrialists form an important section of those they are following. It helps!
But, who knows for how long they will continue tweeting. As Minissha Lamba tweeted recently, “getting bored of twitter... looks like this infatuation is wearing off.”
Well, did anyone say communication works for those who work at it?
