Saturday, May 06, 2006

Idolatry in Idli-land!

Take for example, the euphoria generated by the cigarette-flipping-Rajnikanth’s last year’s release Chandramukhi, wherein his fans devoted 55 days to design and 27 days to print posters of the movie with astounding dimensions of 10 by 120 feet! With Khushboo, idol worship was taken to an entirely new level by actually building a temple in her honour! And then the reaction that the recent demise of Kannada films’ stalwart Rajkumar brought forward has been nearly unprecedented – pelting stones, burning cars and processions were all a part of the hullaboo, wih fans coming-togrips- with-their-loss….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006

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