This Sridevi and Chiranjeevi Newsbyte is Trending: But is it True?

What social media has done is gotten rid of the gatekeepers of reliable news - hang on - the responsible ones, the fact checkers, the verifiers, the ones who look at a piece of information and think is this news? Is it true? Is it libelous? Or is it plausible fiction?! 

We are constantly leaving comments on posts - be it false or flattering, it has to be fact-checked. 

There doesn't seem to be any compunction to question a piece of information - to even randomly check on Google... 

Now this bit about stars earning 1croare - its plausible, possible and potentially true. Chiranjeevi and Sridevi were Telugu superstars and their film JVAS was a massive hit - and Telugu superstars famously are one of the highest paid people in the film industry... The iconic duo earning as much possible - but we need a reliable source to confirm the news on record, otherwise we take it with a pinch of salt.

Now this left newsbyte that has been trending - it could have used a very simple fact check. 90s supermodel Deepak Malhotra (now known as Dino Martelli), is best remembered for playing Siddharth Kumar Bhatnagar (Pallavi's husband) in the 1991 Yash Chopra film Lamhe opposite Sridevi. But it wasn't just 'one' role as he went on to appear in Tejasvini (1994) — his second and final film role (opposite Vijayshanti). There were other films that were launched but never took off - which was often true in the 80s and 90s  - there are innumerable failure-to-launch movies that make headlines, but are never completed.