Being Famous: A Boon Or A Bane?

"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God"- Robert Browning, a famous poet and dramatist.

The word "CELEBRITY" in itself brings the picture of a person with name, fame and popularity, always gathered by crowd, in our minds. The word "celebrity" owes its origin to the Latin term "celebritatem" which means "the condition of being famous". The official definition of the term celebrity may be stated as "a person, who has a prominent profile and commands some degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media".¹ Even the slightest details of these celebrities are treated as news by all. Being continuously in the limelight, under the vision of camera, however, fascinating it may sound but it has its own consequences. With the expansion and development of technology related to mass-media, there has been a considerable increase in the instances where the privacy rights of celebrities have been