Recently
rapper
Badshah
reached
Mumbai
police's
headquarters
in
fake
social
media
followers
case,
and
confessed
that
he
bought
fake
views
for
his
video
'Pagal'
and
paid
Rs
75
lakh
for
it.
For
the
unversed,
Badshah's
'Pagal'
video
made
a
world
record
of
75
million
views
on
YouTube
in
a
single
day.
Nandkumar
Thakur,
Deputy
Commissioner
of
Police,
told
Mumbai
Mirror,
"The
singer
confessed
that
he
wanted
to
set
a
world
record
for
most
number
of
viewers
in
24
hours
on
YouTube.
That
is
why
he
paid
Rs
72
lakh
to
this
company."
After
the
news
broke
out,
Badshah
was
trolled
mercilessly
on
the
internet.
Now,
singer
Kailash
Kher
has
slammed
the
actor
for
spending
a
bomb
to
buy
fake
followers.
While
speaking
to
IANS,
Kailash
Kher
said
that
we
are
living
in
a
society
where
such
disparity
exists.
He
added,
"On
one
hand,
people
have
money
to
buy
fake
popularity
while
on
the
other
hand
there
are
children
on
the
road,
without
food
and
education.
Any
artiste
with
real
knowledge
would
have
used
the
popularity,
money
and
celebrity
status
for
betterment
of
society.
The
72
lakh
rupees
could
have
been
used
for
the
education
of
underprivileged
children."
Speaking
about
himself,
Kher
said,
"I,
too,
get
suggestions
from
the
so-called
business-minded
people
to
market
myself
and
engage
in
paid
PR.
For
me,
when
I
go
to
live
shows
and
I
see
how
people
sing
along
with
me,
is
bigger
than
anything
else.
We
all
know
how
a
section
of
musicians
is
constantly
selling
music
with
ugly,
double
meaning
lyrics
and
videos.
They
are
popular
among
the
youth.
Unfortunately,
they
are
influencing
the
youth
in
the
wrong
direction."