Tellynovas trigger fan reactions vacillating from ‘poojas for a long-life’ to ‘murderous assaults’! Mandira has a ‘darr’ing fan too.
Fan hysterics are not the exclusive trappings of Bollywood royalty any longer. With small-screen stars invading drawing rooms 24/7, tellynovas trigger fan reactions vacillating from ‘poojas for a long-life’ to ‘murderous assaults’!
Iqbal Khan has an ‘outstation’ stalker who even seems to know the colour of his shirt on any given day. Once, she even called the star to reprimand him for going out in the rains. That evening Khan had indeed been to see off his brother and had gotten stuck in the 26/7 floods! Mandira Bedi has a ‘darr’ing fan too.
“This caller from Gurgaon texts me incoherent messages in Hindi and English. He even tells me not to wear revealing clothes! Once when I was at an event in Delhi, he showed up backstage. There was a crazed gleam in his eye. The police, after interrogation, said that he wasn’t normal. Since I recognise him, I make sure he doesn’t come anywhere close to me now!”
Brothers Ronit and Rohit Roy’s experiences, though not offensive, have been offbeat. While a girl has dedicated an exhaustive website to Ronit, Rohit has an 87-year-old ‘Nani’ besotted with him! “I’ve visited her house. She has the glint of a 16-year-old whilst talking to me,” says Rohit.
Telly diva Sangeeta Ghosh is not as perturbed with the countless marriage proposals that she receives as she is with the “lewd messages” and the “all-night” calls from abroad! Simone Singh even had to play shrink to a disturbed fan who believed that all her suffering as ‘Heena’ were true.
Singh had to act extra-jovial to help the lady get rid of her delusions! VJ/singer Sophie’s indecent proposal, however, takes the cake. At a show in Kolkata, a lady whispered to the VJ, “I’m dying to kiss you. You’re the sexiest woman in the world!”
But where fame and fortune come in dollops, dodging fan-quirks seems a pittance of a price to pay.
Fan psychosis in Bollywood
Women committing suicide when Rajesh Khanna married Dimple Kapadia.
A Jamshdepur-based fan insists on praying only to ‘Goddess’ Madhuri Dixit.
A man claiming to be Sridevi’s husband.
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