This Article is From Aug 07, 2012

Big B, Shahid Kapoor please note: It's Mary Kom and she's from Manipur

Big B, Shahid Kapoor please note: It's Mary Kom and she's from Manipur

Highlights

  • Everyone's talking about Mary Kom who is about to bring India a fourth Olympic medal this year. That includes the Twitter-happy Amitabh Bachchan and Shahid Kapoor who neglected to do a Google search and spell check respectively before putting their thoughts on the micro-blogging site.
  • Amitabh Bachchan, who’s been tweeting and blogging extensively about the London Games, started today with this tweet:
  • T 828 - Mary Kom !! wins her boxing bout, insured a Bronze ! What a story ! A Mother of two from Assam, creates moment of pride for India !!
  • That was a Big oops moment. 29 year old Magnificent Mary, as Ms Kom is popularly called, is indeed a mother of two but she’s from Manipur and not Assam.
  • Mr Bachchan corrected himself an hour later:
  • T 828 - Sorry correction : Mary Kom is from Manipur, not Assam .. apologies !!
  • And how about Shahid Kapoor, yesterday’s hot Twitter trend for misspelling Mary Kom’s name in a tweet:
  • Shahid Kapoor ‏@shahidkapoor
  • Bust them up marycom ............ U r indias million dollar baby .......
  • A mistake that was quite rudely pointed out to him by a number of followers, and made him the butt of a spate of online jokes.
  • Unfazed, he corrected himself. And then tweeted, after Mary Kom roundly defeated her quarterfinal opponent, Tunisia’s Maroua Rahali:
  • Shahid Kapoor ‏@shahidkapoor
  • Mari kom wins :) ..... That's being the point guys not the typos .... #goteamindia
  • Except, he didn’t get it right this time either. Mary, Shahid. Not Mari.
  • And Mary Kom will at least have an Olympic medal to make up for having her name misspelled by a celebrity, but poor Vijender Singh won’t. The boxer, who lost his bid for a bronze this morning, also suffered from a celebrity alphabet swap:
  • T 828 - Well fought Vijendra ! You have done the country and all of us proud ..
  • Yes, Mr bachchan did correct himself. Again.
  • T 828 - Correction : VIJENDER and not vijendra
New Delhi: Everyone's talking about Mary Kom who is about to bring India a fourth Olympic medal this year. That includes Twitter-happy Amitabh Bachchan and Shahid Kapoor who neglected to do a Google search and spell check respectively before putting their thoughts on the micro-blogging site.

Amitabh Bachchan, who's been tweeting and blogging extensively about the London Games, started today with this tweet:



That was a Big oops moment. 29-year-old Magnificent Mary, as Ms Kom is popularly called, is indeed a mother of two but she's from Manipur and not Assam.

Mr Bachchan corrected himself an hour later:





And how about Shahid Kapoor, yesterday's hot Twitter trend for misspelling Mary Kom's name in this tweet:


A mistake that was quite rudely pointed out to him by a number of followers, and made him the butt of a spate of online jokes.

Unfazed, he corrected himself. And then tweeted, after Mary Kom roundly defeated her quarterfinal opponent, Tunisia's Maroua Rahali:




Except, he didn't get it right this time either. Mary, Shahid. Not Mari.

And Mary Kom will at least have an Olympic medal to make up for having her name misspelled by a celebrity, but poor Vijender Singh won't. The boxer, who lost his bid for a bronze this morning, also suffered from a celebrity alphabet swap:





Yes, Mr Bachchan did correct himself. Again.



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