People who have been following the Indian newspapers wouldn't take long to figure out which are the two weddings in question here. Two celebrity pairs, Arun Nayar-Liz Hurley and Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai, are getting ready to tie the knot in the two most extragravant wedding bashes and understandbly, our media has a huge resposibility to give us every detail, from what the chef is garnishing the main course with, to the fantasies of Sir. Elton John, the best man to Nayar-Hurley wedding, of wearing a sari to the wedding.
As always, our media has lived up to it's expectations. After all, Arun Nayar is a playboy billionaire of London who fought and won a bitter divorce battle with his Italian ex-wife. Elizabeth Hurley is one of the very few celebrities who climbed the ladder of fame just with the help of "trigger-happy" photographers rather than her acting skills. Can they be better qualified to occupy the front pages of our newspapers?
So, if Hugh Grant, Hurley's ex-partner, decides to go "Dil Chahtha Hain" way and spring a surprise at Hurley just like Aamir Khan did to Priety, rest assured, our alert media will jump into action and give us every possible detail.
That leaves us with Ash-Abhi pair. When Abhishek proposed marriage to Aishwarya, our media was gracious enough to treat the event as though their own Beta was getting a Bahu to the household. Consequently, their wedding has become a household event of every reader of newspapers. All of us are waiting with bated breath to find out if the wedding will be held in Jodhpur or a lavish palace in Jaipur. Our trained investigative journalists are spying on every palace of Rajastan to give us the answers which all of us will lap it up with relish.
Thank goodness, our media knows it's priorities.
2 comments:
The celebs need media publicity for survival and as far as people are concerned, they are more interested in knowing about what color undergarment a celeb is wearing than the current affairs. So, it is natural that the media does what it does.
Ideally, it the duty of the media to infuse more responsibility in the general public and steer them in the right direction.
Anyone who admires a person X , will always want and will look forward to hear more news about that person. People who come from film industry esp. have more such fans. Media takes advantage of this and uses it. These decisions taken by the Celebes are not driven by their fans, but its their own decision. There is ntg wrong in publishing such things in headlines as far as their paper sell and can make money. After all its money that matters :)
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