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Top 10 reasons Amitabh Bachchan became a blogger

April 21, 2008 posted by indiatime |

Amitabh Bachchan has joined the blogosphere and he is displaying his sharp and erudite wordsmithy, surely a legacy of his great father Harivanshrai. I have been wondering why someone as busy as big B would enter the unknown arena of blogosphere. So here are my top 10 guesses.

Not so Seriously:

1. For last few months, Saamna, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece has been taking Amitabh Bachchan to task, writing mostly trite and banal stuff about his loyalties to his adopted city. Amitabh realized that he needed a direct channel to the people instead of the usual gossip-mongering media channels.

2. Unlike most Bollywoodians, Amitabh Bachchan is one actor who probably, could have made a career in literature as well. The press keeps comparing him to today’s Bollywood kings and princes, but he probably saw a way to show his class by cutting the crap and making a direct connection to his fans worldwide.

3. He may have started to blog just now, but Amitabh Bachchan has been writing for some time now, especially about his family, his parents, his wife, his family. The blog medium also allows him to get people’s initial reactions to his expressions. And it’s most probably a preface to the autobiographical portrait we shall see in the market, maybe in a year or two.

A little less seriously:

4. The writing is just the beginning. Eventually, Big B will soon be putting podcasts of his written blogs on the site. In fact, the written blogs are way to getting people hooked on to the site, and once the podcasts are up, then Big B will be charging a membership fee. The huge proceeds will go to the Mumbai Marathi People’s Development Authority.

5. Big B was discussing some money-making strategies with his portfolio manager. After initially coming up with the world tour idea, someone told Big B that pro-bloggers have been making a ton of money on google adsense. Of course Big B’s blog server is owned by Reliance who will probably make a few billion dollars being the middlemen.

6. By challenging Shiv Sena to blog in English, Big B is setting them up for something totally out of their league. It’s like luring a tiger into a pen.

Totally seriously:

7. While Big B was surfing for naughty pictures of Bollywood heroines on the internet, Mrs. Bachchan walked in and asked him what he was doing. “oh, I’m just blogging…have you seen this bigadda site….I think I’m geting the hang of this….”, he said, barely extricating himself from potential trouble. And the first blog he writes gets 500-plus comments in a day. Now he’s stuck.

8. A few after he joined the global cool, the phone rang at 3 am, and Big B was woken up by a Hollywood producer who told him that Hollywood was finally coming around and wanted to give Big B his big break in a new movie about environment. “What charater would I be playing”, asked Big B. “You will be a logger”, said the producer. Ever a student of the cinematic art, Big B has been blogging since that morning.

9. This is just another one of Big B’s farmland grabbing schemes. By luring farmers to write their email and postal addresses on his blog, he wants to grab even more farmland than what he already owns in Mumbai and New Delhi.

10. A few days ago, producer director and friend Ram Gopal Verma called and told Big B, that he wanted Big B as a lead character Blogabbar in his new story “Ram Gopal Verma Kee Blog”. Knowing how fertile and creative some of Verma’s ideas are and seeing the potential this particular theme had, Big B decided to run with the idea himself. Most of the characters have been finalized including the mehbooba dance item girl character named Techno Rati.


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  1. manish on May 9, 2008 11:18 pm

    “..he wanted Big B as a lead character Blogabbar in his new story “Ram Gopal Verma Kee Blog”…” Hilarious!

  2. Appu on June 5, 2008 1:41 pm

    “Raise your voice” - The only reason.

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