Ok...so
I
got
up
late
on
a
Friday.
It's
12pm
and
the
first
thing
I
did
before
I
sipped
my
hot
cuppa
chai
was
log
on
to
Twitter
and
Facebook.
Cut
to
Thursday
afternoon.
When
you
log
in,
you
see
the
entire
world
awake,
Bollywood
celebrities
going
ga-ga
about
the
Dabangg
promo.
From
veterans
like
Satish
Kaushik
to
new
comers
like
Imran
Khan,
the
list
was
endless.
I
too
send
a
text
message
to
Sonakshi
congratulating
her
and
the
promo.
She
replies
in
affirmative
saying
that
she
will
call
up
once
she
gets
a
bit
free
from
her
prior
commitments.
Cut
to
Friday.
It's
12.15pm.
I
sip
my
tea
and
comment
on
the
twitter
page
of
Sonakshi
Sinha,
"You
didn't
call.
OMG." At
12.16pm,
my
phone
rings
and
my
blackberry
signals,
'Sonakshi
Sinha
calling'.
I
love
Twitter,
we
all
do,
don't
we?
But
we
all
love
Sonakshi
Sinha
too.
Yes,
it
just
wasn't
the
promo
which
took
the
tweetiepies
by
surprise,
oh
no!
It
was
the
fact
that
the
word
'beautiful'
had
a
new
meaning
and
it
all
changed
on
a
mystic
Friday
afternoon.
Welcome
Sonakshi
Sinha.
Welcome
to
the
world
where
dreams
are
sold,
welcome
the
newest
of
the
many
Sinha's
who've
taken
our
cinema
to
new
heights.
So
elated
is
this
beautiful
girl,
that
she
spoke
her
heart
out,
"I
spoke
to
Rani
Mukherjee,
my
favourite
actress.
I
got
hundreds
of
text
messages,
my
Twitter
page
was
all
filled
up
and
my
mother
was
keeping
track
on
all
of
it."
So
when
asked,
what
did
the
eldest
of
the
Sinha
member,
Mr
Shatrughan
Sinha
thought
of
the
Dabangg
promo,
Sonakshi
answered,
"My
father
and
I
saw
the
promo
together
and
instead
of
me
watching
the
promo,
I
was
looking
at
him.
He
had
tears
in
his
eyes
after
seeing
the
Dabangg
promo.
He
loved
it
and
that
for
him,
was
his
most
emotional
moment.
For
me
too."
But
it's
not
only
Dabangg
which
she
wants
to
talk
about,
the
daughter
of
Shatrughan
Sinha
is
very
excited
and
anxiously
waiting
for
his
father's
best
ever
role
to
come
out
in
RGV's
Rakta
Charitra.
She
quotes,
"I
am
eagerly
looking
forward
to
Rakta
Charitra.
I
did
visit
the
sets
with
my
mother
one
day
while
he
was
shooting
one
of
the
key
scenes
with
Vivek
Oberoi.
Whatever
I
saw,
I
had
no
words
to
describe
it.
It's
like
sounding
too
biased
but
it's
still
the
truth.
He
is
a
class
apart."
But
before
we
parted
ways,
I
had
to
ask
the
debutant,
what
she
thought
when
people
commented
on
Dabangg
to
open
with
a
bang
at
the
box
office
this
Eid.
"It's
obviously
going
to
work
well
for
me
as
an
individual
if
that's
what
the
trade
pundits
have
predicted.
It's
going
to
do
even
better
for
the
Khans
(Arbaaz,
Salman)
and
Shree
Ashtavinayak,
as
we
all
have
had
faith
in
this
project
right
from
the
day
of
its
inception.
Never
before
has
anyone
commented
so
much
in
advance
before
a
Hindi
film's
release
and
that
too
on
networking
sites.
Thank
you
Twitter
and
Facebook."
Now
imagine
a
life
without
these
networking
sites.
For
starters,
it's
working...and
how!
And
as
I
write
the
final
words
to
end
this
brief
but
beautiful
talk
with
Sonakshi,
two
more
Bollywood
celebrities,
Riteish
Deshmukh
and
Kunal
Kapoor
tweet
-
"Extremely
happy
for
my
friend
Arbaaz
'Robinhood
Pandey'
Khan
and
Dabangg
looks
like
a
Hindi
pulp
movie.
Really
looking
forward
to
this
one."
I
hope
Mr
Ridley
Scott
and
Russell
Crowe
are
following
our
Indian
'Robinhood'
Pandey.
A
much
needed
inspiration
for
them!
Story first published: Monday, July 26, 2010, 16:08 [IST]