Twitter - filmdom's latest battleground

New Delhi You'd think a social networking site would be for just that, socialising and networking. But Twitter seems to have also become a battleground for some of Bollywood celebrities who are using it to settle scores.

In the last month, four major online spats among celebrities have broken out - between filmmakers Ram Gopal Varma and Karan Johar, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and Javed Akhtar-Shabana Azmi; film critic Rajeev Masand and Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan were at loggerheads too and Shobha De's online barbs infuriated Sonam Kapoor and Punit Malhotra.

Varma hasn't missed a chance to take a dig at Karan with whom he shares a "love and hate relationship" since he joined Twitter. A recent swipe was over Karan's "My Name Is Khan" and "Kurbaan".

"I want to remake 'Raavan' and I want to request Mani to remake '(Ram Gopal Varma Ki) Aag'," Varma posted as a reaction to Mani Ratnam's recently released "Raavan" on his Twitter page. It was followed by another post: "I (have) got a better idea... I will make 'My name is Raavan' and Mani should make 'Raavan Ki Kurbaan'."

An angry Johar replied: "You have an amazing sense of humour Ramu (Varma)! Never shows up in your films though."

Varma's quick rejoinder was: "Karan, because of the constant bashing I receive, I developed my sense of humour as a defence mechanism. And talking of my films not having humour, check out the great comedy I made called 'RGV Ki Aag'."

Varma even made fun of Karan's latest ...