It’s not HOT enough, Is it??

SALMAN KHAN and KATINA KAIF have been voted the Hottest Bollywood Couple of the last decade in an online poll conducted by a POPULAR website.

I found this article particularly amusing considering the Fact that the two people concerned have never actually gone on record and ever admitted that they are DATING. They have never once said that they are in love or that they like each other or anything of that sort. But of course, we have gone ahead and taken the liberty of assuming they are a couple and actually bestowing them with the HONOR (If I may).

Despite all the lovey-dovey public appearances, star couples Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan lost out to SATRINA when it came to being the 'hottest Bollywood couple' of the decade. Couples like Kajol and Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Takia and Farhan, etc do not even feature in the list. Actually what have they done? They have JUST got married and had babies… That’s all nah? No controversies, no fights, spits nothing at all!

The public's fixation with the love lives of celebrities reveals the hidden desires of our society, and ubiquitous access to the Internet has caused news or rumors to spread at the speed of light. The public has grown used to more scandalous and sensational revelations, that they are not a bit interested about the normal, sane couples.

But a closer look at all of the comments posted on the Internet reveals the prevailing mentality among people who look at social mishaps and outbursts rather than the genuine feelings two people may have for each other.

Too many people judge celebrity couples with money as the sole gauge. When a female celebrity marries into a wealthy family – many of them these days seem to get hitched to scions of the large conglomerate families -- people often post snide comments, saying the rich family actually has no power in the business empire controlled by their relatives or that the actress probably married because of the vast real estate owned by her in-laws since her husband's company is nothing ELSE to brag about. (Example – One Ms. Shetty!)

When a famous actress marries a humble office worker, people say her husband's father-in-law must be a powerful figure in his home town. When two celebrities get married, people start comparing the amount of TV ads they were in to deduce which one is bringing more money into the marriage.

Times have changed, and even celebrities are NOW getting attracted to each other by that mysterious thing called LOVE. Then why do people insist on viewing celebrity couples through ONLY materialistic lenses?

Perhaps the way we view celebrity couples reflects the way we secretly view those around us. Maybe we have become so jaded that love has degenerated into an emotional scheme to find a wealthy partner, and this characteristic of ours is being manifested in our vicarious fixation on these CELEBRITY COUPLES.

But honestly, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif?? Grunt!