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We Need To Stop With Celebrity Worship

It’s everywhere.

News, social media, tv, advertisements, radio, your clothes, the food you eat, the shampoo you use, the pants you wear…


Celebrity worship isn’t something new. It’s been kicking for a long time. It began when some idiot thought it was a good idea to eat, breathe and live like their favourite celebrity and follow what they do for no good reason.


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And it spread because someone figured out that they can use this person’s obsession to sell crap to him and make a profit.

Today, this phenomenon has become suffocating. And for the sake of everyone’s sanity, we need to stop with celebrity worship.

Why does it happen?

Well, my delusional idiot remark may come across as rude, and it is. It’s also a massive oversimplification of why people get so obsessed with celebrities and their lives.

Although there is no one reason why it happens, there are plenty of psychological aspects to it.

One of the primary factors is escapism.

People see celebrities as out of this world. And why wouldn’t they? These celebs and their agencies spend a lot of time, money and effort to create a larger than life image for these celebrities.

While most of us live a boring, exhausting and monotonous life.

It’s the same reason we watch movies or read books or do anything to help those little bastards in our skull escape from reality. And while there’s nothing wrong it doing watching movies or reading a book or playing video games, celebrity worship takes it to a whole other level.


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Most people indulge in celebrity obsession because they want to live their lives, or rather, live as these celebrities do.

These celebs seem to have all figured out. They are successful. People love them. Admire them, want to be them. They look good (most of them anyway). They have lots of money. And they hold a higher position in this social construct.

Many people look up to them. Many go beyond that.

They start to envy them, lust over them, worship them, obsess over them.

Some even claim to love them and want to marry them.


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These are all red flags on a HUGE spectrum of red flags. You may think looking up to a celebrity isn’t that big of a deal, and it isn’t, but what exactly are these people looking up to? A fake persona?

The problem isn’t just that people think that celebrities live a better life; the problem is that they think their own lives are somehow lesser.

Why we need to stop with celebrity worship

Because it’s unhealthy. And I am not even talking about the extreme cases.


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I am talking about people living their lives following someone blindly. Wearing what they are wearing, eating what they are eating, going where they are going. Being involved in their lives and pettiest of there issues.

Their breakups and hookups, what they said and to whom, their fights and friendships – all this meaningless gossip – and people obsess over it. Some even experience genuine feelings like fear, disgust or anger when their favourite celebrity does something that they don’t like and breaks their ‘trust’.

This becomes even unhealthier when people allow their obsession to affect critical parts of their lives.

Celebrity worship influences people’s buying behaviour, voting patterns and even their choices in finding a long-term partner – All this based on a carefully engineered and manipulated persona.

How can we stop with celebrity worship?

I am not going to lie to you, it’s going to be difficult, very difficult.

From selling products to selling a lifestyle, the celebrity culture has transformed a lot.


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The constant bombardment of unnecessary gossip about them on social media doesn’t exactly help either.

To actually stop, you need to realize that this is a far bigger industry than you realize. There are so many companies that are profiting from this industry that it’s not going to be an easy task to quit it.

First, what you need to realize that these celebrities are just people. Regular people. Their lives sure look interesting and they are (depending on your definition of the word), but they’re still regular people who feel an average set of emotions like you and me, and they act based on these average emotions.

Second, you have to disconnect a bit. Unfollow any pages that exclusively publish celebrity gossip. Unsubscribe from channels that push this sort of content. Stop following, liking, reading, watching, subscribing to anything that you feel is unnecessary noise.

Finally, and this is the most important part, you need to stop thinking of your life as something lesser.


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Sure, working long shift almost the whole week isn’t as interesting as going on a promotion tour in Italy or a concert in Vegas…but finding an escape through their lives isn’t healthy. Dating someone average and living an average but a happy life together is far more precious than these tabloids will make you believe.

There is nothing wrong in admiring someone, but when this admiration turns into obsession and starts affecting your life, then it becomes a problem.

If you feel bad about your life then change it. I know, I know, easier said than done and all that. But living uncontented with your own life isn’t a very good feeling either.

If you feel your life is lesser then make it interesting.

Find people you like spending time with, find a hobby, a new job or something exciting to do, even if it once a week or a month.

Make time for yourself. Invest the same amount of effort you put in following these celebrities in yourself. Realize that constantly indulging yourself in news about these celebrities personal lives is unhealthy and really doesn’t change your life in any way. If you’re looking for entertainment, watch a movie which at least has an end, unlike this fixation with someone else.


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Stop envying, stop obsessing, stop thinking yourself as inferior. Stop with celebrity worship.

Instead, make it about you. Worship yourself. Love yourself. Put effort in making your life better, Make yourself better.


Yes, another article about Sanju – The only one you need to read

“Noooooooo, not another article about Sanju. I don’t care if he’s innocent or not, I watch movies for entertainment not inspiration. Besides, Ranbir ne kya mast acting ki na?”


I know you guys have been bombarded with articles about Sanju from everywhere. But I believe it’s important to know that the person the filmmakers want to portray as a hero is real or not. I have an opinion about the movie based on the facts that I have included in this article. Feel free to add your opinions and have a discussion (in a civilized way) in the comments.

Ok, let’s do this:



Marketing has evolved quite a lot. There was a time when advertisers had to pay to show you ads. Now, YOU are paying to watch ads masked as movies. 20 years ago, who would’ve thought that people would pay to watch a 2 hour 41 minutes-long ad? You blew 250 bucks on a massive image-cleansing stunt (popcorn ka paisa alag se)

The Movie

The Movie


Let’s talk about the movie first. This is just my opinion, but the movie, even if we keep aside the glaring propaganda, was mediocre at best. Ranbir Kapoor, whose performance is being praised left and right, did an okay job. That’s it. That’s the only good thing I could think about the movie.

Everybody else was just average. Some were pretty bad. Paresh Rawal and Vicky Kaushal were wasted in this movie. Especially Kaushal, who’ve acted in Masaan and Raman Raghav, was bland and uninteresting. He played a stereotypical gujju, who’s sometimes the comic relief and says things like ‘ghapa ghap’, snakes and hole – the typical gujju stuff. Kaushal tried to act though, which is evident in some scenes. But his acting was neither appreciated or needed.

Paresh Rawal could’ve done this role in his sleep. He was an essential part of the movie but still didn’t have any major moments that required his acting skills. So much talent, wasted.

Now to the bad parts. Anushka Sharma was horrible. She played some British-Indian girl who can’t stay with one accent even if her life depended on it. One second she is ‘Winnieh’, while on the other she’s back to the typical Delhi accent she has in every movie. The comedy was just awful. The jokes were written by an 8-year old. Really, they were bad. Music was worse. It had songs that were from the early-2000 era. You remember, those songs with boring lyrics and forgettable music? Listen to any one of them online and you’ll know what I am talking about.

That’s about it. Now let’s talk about –

The Ad

the ad


I don’t care about Sanjay Dutt that much, but the propaganda in this movie made me not like him (putting it mildly). So, Sanju is an impressionable young kid who is also sort of a bad boy, one who is overshadowed by his father’s greatness. Understandable.

Someone introduce him to drugs and he gets addicted. Morally unethical but still a personal choice. Understandable.

He does a lot of drugs, even in the room where his mother is in a coma. Very wrong but still a personal choice.

Then he goes to a rehab and gets clean. That’s it. That’s the entire wrongdoings of Sanju in the movie. After that, whatever happens, is someone else’s fault – mainly media, terrorists, common folks, etc. The rehab part of the movie did a pretty good job of making him a victim of circumstances. Don’t get me wrong, I have respect for the guy for fighting a very tough battle against addiction. But the entire rehab sequence, wrapped with a motivational song was pushed down our throats to show him as a person who is trying to do the right thing. Sanju is a guy who has learned from his mistakes and did not a single thing wrong after that.

A smart move. Show the guy in a bad light early, show him fighting it, and then conveniently ignore everything else that is wrong with him.

The movie conveniently ignores anything that can show him in a negative light. Few instances that come to mind are –

It ignores how he was married twice, before marrying Manyata.

It ignores how he didn’t even come to pick his wife at the airport when she returned from the US after battling cancer.

The movie doesn’t even mention about the hand grenades, it just says that he took the AK-56 to protect his family.

Even though he has had guns before and even shot them in front of his house. Clearly, he didn’t have to go to the underworld for guns now.

The movie also conveniently ignores how his father approached Bal Thackrey who further called the then Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao about Sanju’s case and TADA.


It doesn’t mention the tapes featuring the conversations of Sanju with Chhota Shakeel, which that were played in the Special Court. (Can’t vouch for the authenticity of the tapes, but still, it could have been shown in the movie considering how big the incident was).

The movie showed that he was labeled a terrorist by the people. But it never mentioned how politicians and most of Bollywood came out in support of him.

Or the fact that he left his prison cell several times when he was in Pune’s Yerwada jail, to spend time with his family instead, thanks to paroles and furloughs.

Many who have watched the movie will dismiss all of these with the ‘alleged’ and ‘question mark’ dialogues. The facts are facts though. One good thing about the internet is you can look up all of this by yourself, without putting too much effort.

My Opinion

Sanju and sanju


I can’t care less about Sanju (yeah, right. that’s why I wrote a 1000-word long article about it). I think back then, Sanjay Dutt was just another lad who had to live under his father’s massive shadow, a kid who wanted to be a rebel and show how macho he is. Drug use, making connections with the underworld and the mafia, womanizing. Everything was part of this image that he wanted to have for himself. Bear in mind, I am not at all saying the media reports are 100% true (we’ve seen how much integrity our media has). Not all of it is true. At least the Supreme Court’s judgment says so. But I won’t ever believe that he is as innocent as he is shown in the movie. In the movie, there is nothing that he is accountable for. Someone influenced him to do drugs, he kept the gun for his family’s protection, he was a victim of the circumstances with no fault of his own…..yeah, I don’t buy that.

So what exactly is my problem with Sanju? This movie sets a precedence. The success of this movie encourages other such celebrities to do similar PR stunts to clean their image. And don’t tell me it doesn’t work. Check your Facebook feed and see how the propaganda is spreading. The day is not far when we’ll have movies like Bhai or Fakeeri.

You have to give it to the filmmakers though. This is a smart strategy. Doesn’t matter if people are hating the movie or loving it, it’s getting publicity. Look, I am doing this for free now. Well, what can I do? I too am a victim of the circumstances and have to write about trending things to stay relevant.

Hum khaali bolte reh jayenge, wahan ghapa ghap koi aur kar jayega.



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They are ruining old things with remakes and I can’t be happier
























But, I don’t think that’s a bad thing.








And this was where it became a problem.









The answer: They turn art into a business.










So, why do I think that it’s a good thing?












And I truly believe we’re gonna do a damn good job.


Sonam Kapoor Wedding

No, I don’t wanna know what happened at Sonam Kapoor’s Wedding

Put the pitchforks down. Before you say that no one’s forcing you to read about it, stop and listen for a moment. I don’t have anything against Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja. I am happy that they’re married and had a wonderful (so I heard) reception. My problem is with how everyone is bombarding me with news about their wedding. From her lehenga to DJs playlists, to Alia Bhatt coming to her wedding or not – My timeline is filled with all this crap. And no, I am not following any celebrity news pages.

News houses like TOI, NDTV, India Today – were giving minute by minute updates of Sonam and Anand’s wedding which, in my opinion, is not newsworthy. It’s like Taimur all over again. No, I don’t want to know what gift did Ranbir give to Sonam or who came to her reception. I just want news from the news pages that I am following. Is that too much to ask?

I get it. These articles people to your website and it maybe news for some. But they are showing this as it is the most important thing happening in our country right now. I mean,we have PLENTY of pages that cover celebrity news and gossip. And I like them, because they are doing what they are supposed to do, unlike these news channels.

You may call this a rant or call me a troll or whatever but this is true. Soon, we’ll start getting articles like ‘OMG, Sonam and Anand are giving us serious relationship goals’ or 10 pictures from their honeymoon or something like that. This is not news people. Stop sharing it from your news channels. Leave to the pages who’re actually supposed to share these stories.



We have a lot going on in the world and in our country, things more important than this, things that people need to know. Share those.

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The Dying AIB

Back in 2010, came a group of men who made videos that were offensive, crude, pretentious but funny. They called themselves All India Bakchod or AIB for short and they made hilarious, brutally honest videos without a care in the world. Their videos reminded us of our conversations that we have with our college or school friends. Their humor was relatable and crass – exactly the type which we used. They were great and people liked them instantly. Soon they became the ‘cool kids’, and that’s exactly when everything went south.

No offense, AIB still makes a few funny videos and posts. But look me in the eye and tell me this is funny –

They’ve made it meme page. No humor, no original content, just a few brand tie-ups and brand promotion. And sometimes, in a desperate attempt to create a campaign, they do shit like #PyaarEkDhokhaHai and #BetiBachaoFuckboiHatao which is something the old AIB never did. I remember they were especially against labels like slut and whore. But I guess that’s just for women?

Oh and don’t even get me started on #PyaarEkDhokhaHai. They took a joke from Zakir Khan’s performance (the sakth launda one) and made it into an entire campaign. It was so cringey and painful to watch. I can’t believe the main guys at AIB let it go online.

What the hell happened guys? You were the guys who made Rahul vs Modi, It’s your fault, Demo and so many others…how did it come to this? Is it the FIRs? Or are a bunch of teenage girls running your page? You were the guys who brought us Roast and On Air with AIB. People are unsubscribing guys, you’ll still have followers, just not the ones who were there when it started. Don’t let yourself be just another meme page or another Buzzfeed. You’re better than this.



The Stupid Indian 03: Salman Khan and Bollywood



















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20 opening songs of old cartoons…in Hindi!




  1. The Mask




  1. Pingu


Pipipi Pipipi, Pingu Pingu! ‘Nuff said.


  1. The Powerpuff Girls







  1. Aladdin – Arabian Nights





  1. Dexter’s Laboratory





  1. Pokemon





  1. Johnny Bravo





  1.  Scooby Doo





  1. The Jungle Book





  1. Timon and Pumba





  1. Ducktales wooo ooo oo





  1. Talespin





  1.  Samurai Jack





  1. Tenali Raman





  1.  Bob The Builder





  1. Noddy





  1. Kipper





  1. Courage The Cowardly Dog





  1. Beyblade





  1. Dragon Ball Z







Swat Kats



Tom & Jerry



The Flintstones






Captain Planet



Those times were simpler…Cartoon Network made them unforgettable.

Avengers Infinity War

5 moments from Avengers Infinity War Trailer that made me smile

Not gonna lie, these past few weeks have been…tough. Too much stress, too much noise. But sometimes, you get to smile because of the little things. For me, it was Avengers Infinity War Trailer.

Why? Because I grew up watching those characters. So much in my life has changed since the first Iron Man movie and now this is here – The grand finale. I was so caught up in work that I didn’t know a new trailer was gonna come out, but when I saw it on my feed… for those 2 minutes and 18 seconds, I was somewhere else. Guess this is what they call ‘movie magic’.


Check out the trailer here:


I was fanboying the entire time. I got so excited that I almost forgot everything else. Although it won’t be fair to pick just 5 but let’s have a look at the best moments from Avengers Infinity War trailer –


  1. Spider-Man swinging it out!


Yeaaahhhhh, that’s Spider-Man….or Iron-Spider? Well, whatever you wanna call him, you gotta admit he looks kickass here.


  1. Wakanda Forever!


Here we see everyone (well, almost everyone) assemble for the big battle. Why is Thanos attacking Wakanda though? Something’s up…


  1. Thanos crushing the Tesseract


We had the Tesseract since the first Captain America movie and we know how powerful it is and he crushes it like it was nothing. Wow!


  1. Star-Lord and Iron Man


These are two very similar characters (at least in the movies) and already we can see how things are gonna go between them. But hey, I am not complaining.


  1. Captain America and Thanos


Of course, this is gonna be on the list! You knew it, I knew it, my grandma knows it. Thanos and Captain America. We can see the sheer intensity and the effort he’s putting on Steve’s face. For Thanos it’s like, “Hmm, I didn’t think this human is gonna be this strong.” You can see Steve struggling. The question is, how he’s holding him off? Could it be that he took some of the heart-shaped herb? Or does he have an infinity stone? We’ll have to wait.


It’s funny how a movie trailer can make you forget every crappy thing that’s happening in your life, even if it’s for a couple of minutes. I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years and even though everything has changed since then, this is the only thing that’s not. Can’t believe that the Avengers Infinity War is finally here!


To see or not to see: Padmavati or Padmaavat or whatever they’re calling it

So what does this look like –



Congratulations to all the over-aggressive people who wanted to chop off an actress’s nose just because she was playing a character named Padmavati.

People who threatened to kill a filmmaker just because they thought that they might get offended and that is BEFORE actually watching the movie.

People who proved that with violence you can have your way because that’s how democracy works.

Padmavati row


Congratulations to you all.

Happy now? Got that justice boner?

Good, you needed it. Because after all, you’re society’s keepers. We all elected you lot to decide what’s good for us and what isn’t. What we can watch and what we can’t. To actually threaten to kill a guy just because he made something that differed your opinions. You all can kill a lady that is alive in the freakin present for a possibly fictional character who lived centuries ago? In what moronic world does that make sense?

Sanjay Leela Bhansali


See, it doesn’t matter if the character was real or fictional. YOU CAN’T THREATEN TO KILL SOMEONE JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE OFFENDED. If you do that, you suck at being a human. Oh the so called watchful protectors of our culture, why do you keep on doing that? Padmavati, Valentine’s Day, hell even Christmas. Why does anything that’s different threaten you?

Yes, you can choose to not watch it. That’s what democracy is (or at least I think it is). You have a choice. You can voice your opinion. Bhansali can express his, you can express yours. However, your opinion does not give you the right or the authority to threaten someone, beat up someone, thrash up movie theatres. You can’t say that it’s my freedom to say that this other man should not have freedom. That’s not how it works. And if the freaking Supreme Court of our country is saying something, then perhaps you should listen.

Listen, call it my defeat or me being a wuss, but I request people to not go on a killing spree just over a movie. You’re better than this. WE are better than this. Padmavati may hold a really special position for you, but if that sentiment is making you want to murder someone, then stop for moment to think if it’s really worth it or not.

Value a human’s life over your feelings. And I am not talking about Bhansali or Deepika Padukone. They would be the least bothered by it all. The people that will suffer are the theatre owners, security guards, someone who just wanted to watch a movie. When you go burning that theatre, you’ll destroy innocent people’s lives.
I know the people that this article is addressed to won’t even get to read it. But I am asking you as human to share this with someone you know feels this way. Might help them change their mind. Might even save a life.

Enjoy the movie.

Don’t be an asshole.

And don’t burn anything down (However if you’re in agreement with the ‘not being an asshole part’, chances of you burning something down are slim),

Game of Thrones Season 7: The weakest season so far

Okay, now that the hype is dead, we can finally talk about how awful this season was. Full of plotholes, lazy writing, rushing and predictable outcomes – the season was the opposite of what Game of Thrones was back when it was first aired. This season had zero character development and was too freaking fast. Not to mention, the forced character arcs. Oh and those God awful cliffhanger. Did someone actually think that Jamie Lannister will die of drowning?



We know that the writers of the show don’t have a source material to draw from. Don’t care about what others say, but I think that the showmakers don’t have the wit and unpredictability of GRRM …and it clearly shows. If you’re going to give us an ice dragon (or a wight dragon, don’t have clue what that is), then show it in a way that makes sense or at least tries to. Are you going to tell me, that the wights, who had every chance to kill Jon Snow and party, didn’t do it because they couldn’t swim past the water, were able to drag a mofo dragon with chains from it? And what’s up with Jon felling in the frozen water and staying there long enough for Dany and others to fly and for wights to clear out the space? Wights should have been on his throat the moment he reached the surface. But nooooo, they left him there and walked away like nothing happened, only to have Uncle Ben to make his heroic entrance. WTF was that?



Everything was rushed this season. Ravens were emails, Gendry was the Flash, Ser Davos and Tyrion went to King’s Landing and back in what feels like half a day, everything. Maybe the showmakers are so desperately trying to wrap things up, the show is actually losing its authenticity, the very thing that made Game of Thrones a phenomenon.

In earlier seasons, people actually had conversations. The conversation between Littlefinger and Baelish is still one of the best conversations that I have ever seen on a TV show. We knew who Tywin Lannister was because of the way he talked. And Tyrion’s ‘I wish to confess’ still remains one of the most favourite moments of the show. I don’t think if they could have such a scene in the final season. Granted they are trying to conclude the story, but we loved or hated the characters because we knew how they were which doesn’t seem to be a priority right now.



The script is getting weaker which is making the characters looked stupid. Tyrion is supposed to be a clever man with balls of steel and at least cleverer than Cersei and her hand, but he’s now reduced to a gullible dwarf with no understanding of vile his sister is or even how politics work. And then there’s Jon Snow. To be fair, he never was the smartest character on the show but he wasn’t this stupid either. He literally took a bunch of people and marched up north to capture a freaking wight. Why? So that he could show Cersei that the threat is real – a plan by former one of the smartest men in all of Westeros, Tyrion Lannister. Cersei would never give up her power, Tyrion should know that. Yet he made this ridiculous plan of capturing a wight, risking the life of one of Dany’s most important allies and getting a dragon killed in the process.
There are just too many glaring plotholes in this season. And things looked forced. Ed Sheeran’s cameo, Littlefinger’s ‘plan’ to turn Arya and Sansa against each other. A man who was supposedly the most diabolical mastermind in all of Westeros, bested by two headstrong girls and Bran who can’t care less. Yes, Bran can see everything but still, Littlefinger was smarter than all three of them combined and his death was nothing but a loose end being tied up. The romance between Jon and Dany was plain weird. Dany was an unlikable character all along but this season she was simply annoying.



I know those were a lot of complaints from a TV show but Game of Thrones is (was?) so much more. I don’t want it to have a mediocre ending and people considering it to be the ‘best ending to the best TV show’ just because they don’t want to piss off the fans or accept it. I am a GoT fan myself, but the makers are slipping and I don’t think they could show a war between the dead and the living AND wrap up the entire series in one season.


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