Temples built for Indian celebrities by their fans

Locals in Siddipet's Dubba Tanda village built a temple for actor Sonu Sood's charity works during the pandemic

Fans of superstar Amitabh Bachchan had this temple built in Kolkata

A temple was dedicated to former Congress president Sonia Gandhi at Malayala in Mahbubnagar district as a mark of gratitude for her help in the formation of Telangana state

A fan in Alapadu village, Bapatla district, Andhra Pradesh, built a temple for Samantha Ruth Prabhu's 36th birthday

A farmer in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchirappalli village built a temple for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his farm for welfare schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi

Sachin Tendulkar, the God of Cricket, also has a temple with a life-size white marble statue in Bihar's Kaimur district. Manoj Tiwari, a Bhojpuri actor and artist who is a big fan of Sachin, made it

Diehard fans of Superstar Rajnikant installed a Sahasra Lingam in his honour at the Kotilingeshwara Temple in Kolar, Karnataka

A devotee of Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao spent his savings in building a temple in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district. He often does aarti and other Pooja rituals in honour of NT Rama Rao

YSRCP MLA B Madhusudan Reddy built a temple for Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in Srikalhasti

A temple for N Chandrababu Naidu, TDP president, was also proposed in Harishchandrapuram, Amaravati. However, it’s not known if it’s still there

Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy's fans built a temple in Rajagopalapuram, a village in Visakhapatnam's coastal area

Khushboo is perhaps the first, for whom the fans built a temple in Tiruchirappalli in 2001. But it was demolished following a controversy over her ‘safe sex’ remarks