Autograph, please!

Being starstruck can have its advantages, such as the incredible excitement and happiness of seeing and meeting in person celebrities. Pune-based accountant Madhav Tatke has been going the extra mile of meeting celebrities and getting their autographs too.  

Tatke, 63, has a collection of over 1,000 photographs of celebrities, with their autographs next to it, a hobby he began to pursue in 2004. “My 10-year-old daughter and I were visiting the Mahashivraatri Miravnuk, where she met Ranjeet, the Bollywood villain and took his autograph. The same year, she met musical duo, Ajay-Atul and got their autograph too. That gave me the idea that getting autographs of different celebrities would make a nice collection,” he says.