Celebs take Gaming route to connect with fans

Gone are the days when you had to do a particular amount of shopping and write a slogan to enter a contest which gave you a far shot at connecting with your favorite celebrity. It's as easy as logging onto the nearest computer now.

Now imagine a scenario where a host of celebrities are surreptitiously stealing fruits and vegetables from farms of their fans, parking their cars in wrong streets while challaning fans who do the same in their street, playing Teen Patti with their fans and trying to pull off a bluff. Yes, welcome to the age of social gaming and celebrities playing them with none other than you.

In a coup of sorts, social networking site ibibo has managed to attract celebrities of various ilk including actors, musicians, sportspersons, RJs, fitness experts onto their bandwagon with their latest push on social gaming catching fancy of celebrities and youth alike. While most SNS offers fans to follow their favorite stars and their updates, none so far has allowed them to pit against them as well as interact them to the maximum possible.

Celebrities also seem to have realized that while utilizing social networking sites to promote their movies, albums etc. has had a positive impact on the movie their own popularity has soared once they have started sharing slice of their life with them through interacting and gaming.

Says Mukesh Rishi, veteran actor who wowed the audiences with his intense portrayal of a Pakistani boxer in Lahore, "Social Gaming is a unique proposition as it offers a platform where I can sit back and interact with my fans directly and talk about my movies while playing games which is rejuvenating. It is nice to see that I have so many followers on ibibo and it feels really good to receive direct feedback from them."

Fashion designer Sanjana Jon opines, "It's interesting to be able to reach out to people with whom we normally couldn't have interacted. It helps me in projecting the issues I am close to while also in understanding their pulse. It's high interactivity is relaxing."

Shekhar Suman on his profile says "Issuing challans is so much fun" as he plays Parking Wars.

It is estimated that about 68.5% of India's web population accesses popular social networking sites and social networking has become a part of their daily life.

Ibibo also has celebrities like Actors like Reitesh Deshmukh, Shekhar Suman, Sportstar Vijender Singh, Singer Shibani Kashyap, Choreographer Sandip Soparrkar etc. interacting and playing social games with their followers.

Its also interesting to see that celebrities on ibibo.com are authenticated to ensure they are genuine. These celebrities get a stamp of verification on their profile pages.

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