Acting Responsibly: Amitabh Bachchan can learn a thing or two from Jurgen Klopp on responsible celebrity behaviour

Amitabh Bachchan can learn a thing or two from Jurgen Klopp on responsible celebrity behaviour.Contrast actor Amitabh Bachchan’s ill-informed tweet (now deleted) on flies spreading SARS CoV-2 with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp’s reply to a reporter asking for his take on the coronavirus pandemic. Bachchan may plead the noblest intentions—in a country that still sees a high level of sanitation-related diseases, efforts to encourage hygiene and cleanliness, even voluntary ones by celebrities, can never be enough.

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But, if it comes wrapped in misinformation in the midst of a crisis, it can prove completely counterproductive. Health ministry officials had to rush to clear up the resulting mess. But, why talk of Bachchan alone when a prominent ruling-party leader confidently opines that SARS CoV 2 wouldn’t be able to affect India because it was “home to 33 crore gods and goddesses”? Klopp, on the other hand, chastened the reporter with “I don’t understand how on a very serious thing, opinion of a football manager is important…It’s not about what famous people say.”