The bigger you are, the harder you fall

This adage couldn't be truer than in the case of celebrities. Except in a few stray cases, the theory of gravity has been more or less on the dot. So you could be a royal couple at the receiving end of every wisecracking tweeter worth his 140 characters. Or you could just be another star in Bollywood having his day in the sun and finding it worth your while belittling everyone and everything else.

Going by measures, the effects thereof, vary. There's really little you can say or do once you're in the public eye, that won't be scutinised or ripped apart at the seams. Can you really then blame these names for hiding behind publicists or protocol or plain inaccessibility?

Take, for example, how touchy folks get after they've given a quote. They realise five seconds after they've opened their trap that it was probably a good idea to have not picked up the phone at all.

The smart kind never do. They get their spokespersons to do it. And in select cases, if they do, you will see these bodyguards of privacy come out with statements that are draft precise, concise and erudite. Others will throw caution to the wind and expect it to fly when they speak their minds.

Sometimes, what a spokesperson says isn't what the 'star' (such an abused word, that) meant. And then you begin to wonder: what's the point of this self-defeating exercise? They're going to do something foolish sooner rather than later. They'll have their advisors and friends doing damage control for them on social networking platforms or slamming the doors of communication shut.

It doesn't matter who you are, if you're known, that's reason enough for you to be pulled down. You are answerable, after all, to the people who set you up on the pedestal.

A prolific hunger strike against corruption may make you the name worth knowing one day and an association with someone accused of the same thing you fought against, could just as simply call your integrity into question.

Is the solution then, to be recluses? Show up once a year and stay away for the rest of the time? Create a myth around the very fact of your existence? Die freakishly or mundanely, your every move preceding that is going to be chronicled.

The fall from grace is swift and it's lonely. Make sure you're getting a cushioned landing or ensure that you're big, but not THAT big.The bigger you are, the harder you fall

This adage couldn't be truer than in the case of celebrities. Except in a few stray cases, the theory of gravity has been more or less on the dot. So you could be a royal couple at the receiving end of every wisecracking tweeter worth his 140 characters. Or you could just be another star in Bollywood having his day in the sun and finding it worth your while belittling everyone and everything else.

Going by measures, the effects thereof, vary. There's really little you can say or do once you're in the public eye, that won't be scutinised or ripped apart at the seams. Can you really then blame these names for hiding behind publicists or protocol or plain inaccessibility?

Take, for example, how touchy folks get after they've given a quote. They realise five seconds after they've opened their trap that it was probably a good idea to have not picked up the phone at all.

The fall from grace is swift and it's lonely. Make sure you're getting a cushioned landing or ensure that
you're big, but not THAT big

The smart kind never do. They get their spokespersons to do it. And in select cases, if they do, you will see these bodyguards of privacy come out with statements that are draft precise, concise and erudite. Others will throw caution to the wind and expect it to fly when they speak their minds.

Sometimes, what a spokesperson says isn't what the 'star' (such an abused word, that) meant. And then you begin to wonder: what's the point of this self-defeating exercise? They're going to do something foolish sooner rather than later. They'll have their advisors and friends doing damage control for them on social networking platforms or slamming the doors of communication shut.

It doesn't matter who you are, if you're known, that's reason enough for you to be pulled down. You are answerable, after all, to the people who set you up on the pedestal.

A prolific hunger strike against corruption may make you the name worth knowing one day and an association with someone accused of the same thing you fought against, could just as simply call your integrity into question.

Is the solution then, to be recluses? Show up once a year and stay away for the rest of the time? Create a myth around the very fact of your existence? Die freakishly or mundanely, your every move preceding that is going to be chronicled.

The fall from grace is swift and it's lonely. Make sure you're getting a cushioned landing or ensure that you're big, but not THAT big.