How to be the 'Best Real Star on Social Media'? Only Katrina Kaif can tell us!
Is it a war between real people on social media versus bots?
Katrina Kaif should have just said ‘no’ when she was informed that she would be going to receive an award for being the 'Best Real Star on Social Media'.
Didn’t it sound absolutely wrong to her?
Didn’t she ask the organisers what the award actually intended to mean?
Like, what is the award really conveying?
Katrina Kaif is the true ‘real’, meaning ‘actual’, star on social media, and the rest are just there, pseudo-stars, breathing in and out, not making any difference?
Or, is it that Katrina Kaif is ‘real’, meaning not ‘fake’, on social media, and the rest are, well, of course, fake?
It must be either one of them, or both. But it was not a consolation prize at all. Or was it?
Grievances are running galore now as to why Ayushmann Khurrana didn’t win an award, why Andhadhun was not the best film et al, though many small-budget films have got recognition in the first award ceremony of this season, and Alia Bhatt winning the best actress award for Raazi is always be a judgement in favour of the ‘script-is-the-hero’ movies.
But apart from those skirmishes, we have a deeper crisis here.
We can’t understand the meaning of the award Bollywood’s favourite Sheila-turned-Suraiyya just received.
Well, you can't give her the best actress award. Then just give her some 'best' awards in categories like dance, body, shortest dialogue ever, etc.
What is this 'social media' fancy that we don't even get!
Here are some facts:
Katrina Kaif was not a social media person until fairly recently. And by 'recently', we mean early this year when she debuted on Instagram. She is still not there on Twitter, therefore, not pursuing Bollywood’s 'occasional' (oft-accused as selective) intellectual stimulation. So, she has her skin still shielded from the ultra-violet Twitter trolls.
Her social media interaction is confined to Instagram, a platform which mostly believes in the niceties of life. Trolls have crept into that platform as well, but somehow, it has not become their bastion.
On Instagram, she is followed by 16.5 million people and most of her posts are promotional shots, videos from movies and magazine covers. Some are also her candid pictures and, of course, workout photos.
Well, all this must have made her the 'best'.
But, at this point, what we wonder is where is the category under which Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor won awards last year (2017)?
Yes, the Nothing-to-Hide-Award. (No, this is not even a joke)
We were told that they shared everything — their personal ups and downs — with us on social media.
So, is it the same award given to Katrina this year?
And were the organisers embarrassed after 'nothing-to-hide' fell flat on their face and then, they came up with this 'Best Real Star on Social Media' thing instead?
We are more clueless than nasty critics say Katrina Kaif has been in the characters she has essayed in her Bollywood career.
Isn't it very difficult in fact to find the 'real' face of a person? Don't the organisers actually deserve an award for that?
Also, is it a war between real people on social media versus bots?
Then, we should not laugh at all!