Delhi Diary 11

Airtel conducted the half marathon on Sunday 27th Nov - for publicity and for health concerns. But these marathons are incomplete without the presence of "Bollywood". So we had Shah Rukh Khan and Bipasha Basu as brand ambassadors of the Airtel half marathon, to encourage the participants. Funny part was, all their encouragement from a raised poduim had quite the opposite effect! Thousands of eager runners stopped right in front of the cine stars and refused to budge. All hands were raided towards them, not in salute but to click pictures!!! The actors had to be taken away from the visibility zone for the crowd to remember why they were there in the first place. But when asked, quite a few said they had come to run only to see the celebrities. Wah India!!!