By Subhash K Jha
More and more Bollywood A-listers feel the need to communicate with their fans through social networking sites on the internet. After Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan, Imran Khan and Karan Johar it’s now Shahrukh Khan who went on Twitter on Saturday. Within 24 hours Shahrukh who went on twitter on Saturday, has 10,000 followers on twitter; a new record in twittering, one supposes. Shahrukh’s best friend Karan Johar admits that he persuaded the ‘My Name Is Khan’ star to get on twitter.
“It is really a very satisfying way of communicating with the world outside your immediate circle. I’ve been persuading all my friends to get on Twitter. Shahrukh finally relented. Within 24 hours he had 10,000 followers,” exclaims Karan. The star is already hooked hopelessly to twitter. He hopes to establish a personal rapport with his fans and movie-watchers in time for the release of ‘My Name Is Khan’ which is a very important piece of cinema and not quite what Shahrukh’s fans would expect of him.
Shahrukh felt this was an opportune moment for a direct interaction with people who watch his films, to let them know exactly what to expect of ‘My Name Is Khan’.
Interestingly, while most of Bollywood’s A-listers are succumbing to the temptation of getting on social networks, two stars that absolutely refuse to do it are Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoor.They have both admitted on separate occasions that they’d rather not have people being updated on their minute-by-minute activities.
