On November 19, British band Coldplay performed its first concert in Mumbai, ending months of waiting by hard-core fans. Chris Martin not only sang their favorite numbers and Channa Mereya from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and the iconic Vande Mataram with AR Rahman at the end.
Indians took to Twitter to thank the rock star for such a fabulous performance. But, ended up following the Wrong Chris Martin on Twitter & Made Him Popular. Indians followed wrong Chris Martin, who is a comedian and has a verified Twitter account.
He gained over 1000 Indian followers on Twitter because of this Coldplay.
To the 500 Indian followers I gained in the last day I’m not in Coldplay. I’m sure Chris was great in Mumbai but I can’t pass on the message
— Chris Martin (@ChrisMcomedy) November 19, 2016
But it didn’t stop there, the comedian had to change his profile picture to convey the message.
.@ChrisMcomedy new profile photo pic.twitter.com/LS1GXrJWbU
— Chris Martin (@ChrisMcomedy) November 20, 2016
Here are the Twitter Reactions Where Indians trying to console him in their own way:
.@ChrisMcomedy Now got a 1000 more followers, but compared to Indian population that’s only 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000.1 % of you
— Chris Martin (@ChrisMcomedy) November 20, 2016
please ask your queen to return Kohinoor
— Petyr Baelish (@doubtinggaurav) November 20, 2016
who are you…? What do you do for living?
— Ankur Kulkarni (@ankurkulkarni27) November 20, 2016
I am being held captive…emotionally…by Indian Coldplay fans
— Chris Martin (@ChrisMcomedy) November 20, 2016
we Indians just love chris be it Chris Brown or Chris jerico or Chris martin 😄😄
— Chika Pikaa Rikaa (@imdhokla) November 20, 2016
I laughed way too loud at this. You look like a broken man!
— Cherie. 🏳️🌈 (@sofckingchuffed) November 20, 2016
Whereas real Martin ended the Global Citizen Festival India concert on a high note with his band by singing ‘Vande Mataram’ with the music maestro AR Rahman.
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