A new video showing Priyanka Chopra emerging from an airport has been caught out by observant net users as being doctored. The same two fans who accost her at the beginning of the video are seen running after her again for autographs at the end.
Either the “fans” have nothing better to do than chase their “favourite” star on the airport. Or , shocking as it seems,these are hired fans.
The practice of inflating fan participation at public places was earlier a phenomenon restricted to politicians only. At election campaign rallies cheering audiences were habitually hired to make the politicians look more popular than they really were.Voters were impressed by the amplified crowds.
But actors following the same practice appears an exercise in redundancy as they already have a a massive following.
Shatrughan Sinha who has faced the frenzy as both an actor and politician is surprisingly candid about “hired hysteria”.
One of today’s top star-actors , recently much in the news for exciting happenings in his personal life, has an over-enthusiastic PR team which has been instructed to amass ‘fan slabs’ at public events who are generated on demand to shriek and shout when Mr Superstar shows up at the event(suitably late). He then waves at the crowds as they shriek and whistle.