Wednesday, July 23, 2008
3 Bollywood stars featured in list of 10 cell phone celebrities
Three Bollywood stars, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Abhishek Bachchan, feature in Forbes magazine's list of 10 celebrities who are brand ambassadors for different mobile phone companies.
The three Indian actors are joined by football star David Beckham and tennis champion Maria Sharapova on the list released by the magazine.
Sharapova endorses Sony Ericsson phones and Beckham lends his name to the Motorola RAZR2 phone.
While Shah Rukh lends star power to mobile phones made by Nokia, Abhishek and Aamir endorse Motorola and Samsung phones respectively.
The Forbes report said that Nokia, the world's largest phone manufacturer, "does n't work with many celebrities but makes an exception for Shah Rukh, who says he has used Nokia phones for more than a decade." It added that after a popular commercial last December, the company sponsored Shah Rukh's Indian Premier League cricket team earlier this year.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
The three Indian actors are joined by football star David Beckham and tennis champion Maria Sharapova on the list released by the magazine.
Sharapova endorses Sony Ericsson phones and Beckham lends his name to the Motorola RAZR2 phone.
While Shah Rukh lends star power to mobile phones made by Nokia, Abhishek and Aamir endorse Motorola and Samsung phones respectively.
The Forbes report said that Nokia, the world's largest phone manufacturer, "does n't work with many celebrities but makes an exception for Shah Rukh, who says he has used Nokia phones for more than a decade." It added that after a popular commercial last December, the company sponsored Shah Rukh's Indian Premier League cricket team earlier this year.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: Aamir Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, brand ambassadors, celebrities, David Beckham, Famous Bollywood stars, Forbes magazine, mobile phone companies, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Shah Rukh Khan
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
