First they ignored him. Then they laughed at him. Now they are in awe of him. We are talking of Uday Chopra, once the butt of jokes, now a youth icon, whose rise in the eyes of the youth has been faster than even the AAP.
The turnaround happened after a picture of Uday cavorting with a bikini clad Nargis Fakhri went viral on the social media. Now, from IIMs to IIPMs, IITs to NIITs, every student has nothing but good things to say about the Dhoom 3 star. Uday Chopra fan clubs are now mushrooming all over India, from the badlands of Chhatisharh to the rarefied vales of Kashmir. Even in Tamil Nadu, some fans are shifting allegiance from Rajinikanth to the Chopra scion while Chuck Norris memes recycled as Ravindra Jadeja memes now feature the Dhoom star.
“Boss, he might have a lousy body of work but he got a babe in the end, no? He passed the litmus test and its generally agreed that the guy who gets a chick has to be a stud,” opined Uday detractor turned Uday Chopra North Zone fan club President, Rakesh Dhingra.
“I was all set to crack some Uday Chopra jokes after watching Dhoom 3,” confided Thomas Varghese, a final year engineering student, “until I saw that pic of his with Nargis ji, leaving me slack jawed. Now I have a life size pin up of Uday sir which I worship everyday so that hopefully I can also achieve as much as he has.”
Uday Chopra himself is nonchalant about his comeback. “I’ve always let my work speak for itself,” he said to The Unreal Times Maldives correspondent, Rahat Aalam even as Nargis emerged from the pool in another two piece bikini.