Years ago eyebrows were raised when a young and exuberant Padmini Kolhapure rushed upto the visiting Prince Charles and kissed him on the cheek.
Prudes cribbed and cribbed and went to town slandering her over-zealous act, but for the media and public — it generated publicity by the bushels. Then the infamous Shilpa Shetty–Richard Gere ‘shall we dance’ kinda striking pose caught the attention of the wrong people, for the wrong cause.
Now a similar story is being repeated by that one enthusiastic yell of Anil Kapoor. Post the success of Slumdog Millionaire at the Golden Globe, and his majorly spontaneous, attention-grabbing moment – sharing a hug with Tom Cruise, every section of western media is hounding him for interviews. And thankfully … AK is getting more famous for the right reasons (so what if he still has a slight Cruise hangover from that hug). As long as Tommy boy knows who hugged him so zealously. Hmm … you know it Tom, don’t ya? FYI he isn’t any Joe or John from Bollywood, okay. He is apun ka Anil Kapoor!