Fumingly Famous

Steps to become famous in 24 hours:

1) Trace a blog from a famous network (Eg: IBN) which is notorious already with more than 300 comments.

2) Knowingly, post on the same topic but in a more refined manner in your own blogspot. Post a comment for the previous post, empathizing with the author, and innocently leak out your blog link there.

3) If you are lucky, you will get an ‘Anonymous’ commenter(s) trying to get to your hairs without fully reading the post and understanding that you had done nothing more than re-telling the story in the name of re-view.

4) If you are even luckier, he will start using offensive notes on your personal life which has no relevance to the post as if he has known you for years together thereby demeaning his dignity himself.

5) My God, if you are still luckier than that, you will have a good old buddy getting aggravated by the comments and start having a bull fight with the ‘Anonymous’ , thereby making himself mistakenly being assumed as your boyfriend. (Just hope that your real boyfriend trusts you enough to understand that all was crap).

6) And Viola!!!! U get 19 comments in a single day and become FAMOUS!. (That was more than what I’ve got for any of my previous posts!!!!!!)

7) And and and if you are just so damn lucky, you can expect many more comments for this post as well, thereby advancing from famous to VERY FAMOUS!

I might not be knowledgeable enough to review ‘Shivaji’ but I am smart enough to advertise my bloglink in a manner that a discussion on IBN continues on a lone personal blogspot.

Post Script:

- I knew that blogging on ‘Shivaji’ might get controversial.

- I had seen the evidence for that in IBN post.

- Still, I had decided to dare a post in my blogspot with the same topic and boldly giving my link away in the same page with a hidden disclaimer on my movie review skills (“Don’t try this one Archu, this is not your sector….”)

- I had written in my comment in IBN that I was a Tamilian myself and mentioned the names of the movies in my post thereby hinting that I’ve seen all those. (FYI…I’ve seen Rajni’s movies from ‘Moondru Moduchu’,‘16 Vayathiniley’ onwards…I liked him a lot more in those than in Shivaji, sorry that’s how my liking stands).

- I had called Shivaji a typical Rajni’s movie…a smarter fan would have taken that as a compliment.

- Inspite of all this, nobody but two was able to realize my strategy and blindly carried on the same discussion which they had already done once elsewhere, some even comparing me to Anuradha, thereby adding another feather to my hat!

- By venting out your anger, you’ve made a self assumed brilliant seem really really brilliant!!! Thanks a lot guys.!!!!! :)

Moral of the Story:

For those who can think a little beyond the fantasies of a movie (any movie for that matter), kindly do not bring in all your regional fanatics into entertainment media as well as if India doesn’t have enough clashes already. Freedom of thought is a fundamental right and blogs fall under the category of 'One's own personal cyber space' to exercise it. Lets try to understand that Amitabh or Rajni, Shah Rukh or Kamal, all are brilliant actors who themselves wouldn’t appreciate such rude behaviour from their fans.

Coooooooooooool! :))))