#MumbaiRains: Bollywood celebs tweet about the Monsoon

Second spell of Mumbai rains brings city to a standstill

Incessant rains and the resulting chaos has once again brought Mumbaikars to Twitter. They are musing about the rain, pondering over the state of affairs in their city, complaining and blaming, while also helping fellow Tweetizens with regular local train and traffic updates. Celebs, who call Mumbai as their home, also find it difficult to make it to work during the rains and take to Twitter to express themselves in 140 characters. Here's what they are saying:

Aarya Babbar ‏@AaryaBabbar222:
"#MumbaiRains demand #Romance"

Tanishaa Mukerji ‏@TanishaaMukerji:
"#bmc this is ridiculous ! More proof that mumbai bmc is corrupt with no care for building standards! #MumbaiRains"

Shirish Kunder ‏@ShirishKunder:
"No pain, no gain.Yes rain, no train.#MumbaiRains"

Masaba Gupta ‏@MasabaG: "S L O W w w clap for the BMC. #MumbaiRains #traffic"

Let's take a look at how badly had rain affected the film industry, when it had first arrived in the city, this year...

Disclaimer: All tweets have been sourced from Twitter and written as is

ABCD 2, that released on June 19, had to face the wrath of the Rain Gods. While the film has opened to an encouraging response at the box-office, special promotional activities planned for the film had to be cancelled due to the incessant rains in Mumbai. Reportedly, a special screening of ABCD 2 was planned for the kids at a suburban Mumbai theatre. However, rains played spoilsport and the show had to be cancelled.

Monsoon caused trouble even when it had just arrived in Mumbai. Read on to know more...

The city that never sleeps, Mumbai is struck by heavy rains. The Monsoons are here and the city is flooded with water. Several stars took to micro-blogging site, Twitter, and shared their feelings about the first heavy showers. With complaints of water-logging in several areas of Mumbai, Bollywood also expressed their discontent with the BMC services. Read on to know how Bollywood reacted to the first heavy showers in the city...

Shah Rukh Khan ‏@iamsrk:
"As much as I understand Rain…Romance….Love….during a shoot one needs Light more than Love."

Ayushmann Khurrana ‏@ayushmannk:
"Ppl who love rains are the ones with the means to duck the rain fury. When I was a struggler in this city, I couldn't relate to the downpour"

Sonakshi Sinha ‏@sonakshisinha:
"Zombification. Waking up at 5:45 am everyday is NOT my scene. And driving through waterlogged mumbai - most definitely not!!!"

Amitabh Bachchan (on his blog):
"Incessantly it rains without .. water liquid is precious and desirous of its want .. crops and plants need the flourish .. humans need its preservation .. nation needs its economic presence .."

Farhan Akhtar ‏@FarOutAkhtar:
"I think the Mumbaikar tax-payers money is used to block the city's drainage system. #everyyearsamestory"

Dia Mirza ‏@deespeak:
"Thank you rain :) you turn delays into moments of expression..."

Sajid Khan ‏@SimplySajidK:
"Good news n bad news for all car owners.GN..free car wash today!BN..if d rains dont stop ur car may get washed away!��"

Ranvir Shorey ‏@RanvirShorey:
"Same thought every year: If a city gets this kind of rain in the monsoon & still ends up short of water in summer, it's ill managed! #Mumbai"

Sophie Choudry ‏@Sophie_Choudry:
"Row row row your boat!! ���� Every damn monsoon...frikkin ridiculous! Stay safe everyone!"

(Image Credit: Sajid Khan)

Kunal Kemmu ‏@kunalkemmu:
"Driving to shoot hoping dont need a motorboat on the way back #MumbaiRains"

Divya Dutta ‏@divyadutta25:
"N t frst monsoon madness.. Out in t rain... Drenched!! Happy monsoon guys"

Anubhav Sinha ‏@anubhavsinha:
"While I love rains from my 20th floor home I know there are thousands in the city that suffer this rain. All Govts have failed them."

Vir Das ‏@thevirdas:
"New rule. During heavy rains, school stays open, make all kids study urban drainage engineering. So one of them can grow up & fix this shit."

(Image Credit: Kunal Kemmu)

Boman Irani ‏@bomanirani:
"Sitting in my car, but the big fat raindrops reflected off my windscreen tell me to go back home #iphonediary"

Shekhar Ravjiani ‏@ShekharRavjiani:
"Incessant rain today! Seeing some crazy images of flooded streets."

Aditi Rao Hydari ‏@aditiraohydari:
"Hello #monsoon you're awesome but we are NEVER EVER PREPERED to welcome you happily #InfrastructureFail #INeedABoat "

(Image Credit: Boman Irani)