It's so easy to become a celeb. You merely have to get a pic in the paper --any paper, any page-- only once and you earn the right to strut around town with the aura of an important living thing. That pic means someone somewhere could possibly recognise you in the near or far future and God, that makes you soooo important.

TV stars, for instance. Each one is in transit to the big screen but ends up adopting the airs of Shah Rukh Khan. (One SRK is bad enough, man!) To me, they all look alike and act alike. I can't tell who acts worse on screen --that main character on Bidaai (the boy who is supposed to get married to the dark girl) or the main character on Dill Mil Gaye, or that seriously deprived Karan of the erstwhile (thank God!) Kyunki Saas bhi ....

Before you summarily disown me as the serial watcher, let me salvage my tarnished reputation and declare that I watch the first serial whenever I can, I like the Archie-like humour of the second -sometimes - and have suffered a few scenes of the last saga.

Ideally, a celeb should mean someone who has done something for the betterment of mankind, and not someone who gets jazzed up for a living. Really. How does that make him/her superior, huh?

I completely and utterly adore AB but I cannot imagine drooling over him or his pictures. Never could, even as a teenager. To me, he is doing a job just as my father did (well, technically, he was a businessman) and now I do. What he does in the public life has a curiosity tag that I dont. Fair enough. Even I want to know more about him whenever I can. I could have met him a few thousand times if I wanted to but I never saw the need. And ironically, this superstar of superstars is as humble as others like SRK are arrogant.