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Posted On: October 11th 2025, 11:22 am
I called him my bestie in my book, Happy 83 Big B My Bestie, . Excerpt from my book The Mirrors on The Tides...
The year was 1982 and I had just returned to my boarding school after a summer vacation with my cousins in Kalahandi, Orissa. My mother had been unable to visit me as she was on a national duty of a grave kind at an extremely disturbed part of India.
I had disco danced my vacations with the likes of Funky Town that I heard in School. The School Captain had emerged out of a phone booth that was lowered on stage, commendable even by today's standards and he had popped out in a shirt that had a 100 bulbs that changed colour. We had been introduced to the dazzle of Disco.
However, things had drastically changed after the vacation. Two of my dormitory mates had come with a new drill, two steps forward and a kick and they would repeat the act in four directions. These two Sikh boys from the Steel City of Bhilai were beginning to express far more with an audacity steely and were even imitating a deep baritone.
Within the realm of my 8 year old curiosity, I happened to quiz them about the adoption of this very distinct avatar. And that's when they gave me that perplexed look as if I were some alien who had just arrived with no bearings of fellow sapiens. ”You haven't seen the movie "Yaraana?” I answered in the negative. “This is Amitabh Bachchan’s signature step!” That's my earliest recollection of the name but I had been introduced to his ilk of Vijay through my growing years. My Silsila (Relationship) with my Naseeb (my fortune) continued as I Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes) even got my Math wrong with Do aur Do Paanch (2 and 2 made 5).One could list his entire filmography as every movie was possibly designed to fall in love with the biggest billboard of our subconscious bylanes, the brilliant baritone from Bombay. The Big Bachchan we later called Big B had made a beeline to live within. Much before we boys in India had even heard or seen Tom Hanks become Big in a flash in his sleep in a movie, we were enamoured, infatuated, riveted with the thought of becoming men in our boyish Bata PT shoes.....)..rest in the book
#amitabhbachchan #actorlife #mybestie
The year was 1982 and I had just returned to my boarding school after a summer vacation with my cousins in Kalahandi, Orissa. My mother had been unable to visit me as she was on a national duty of a grave kind at an extremely disturbed part of India.
I had disco danced my vacations with the likes of Funky Town that I heard in School. The School Captain had emerged out of a phone booth that was lowered on stage, commendable even by today's standards and he had popped out in a shirt that had a 100 bulbs that changed colour. We had been introduced to the dazzle of Disco.
However, things had drastically changed after the vacation. Two of my dormitory mates had come with a new drill, two steps forward and a kick and they would repeat the act in four directions. These two Sikh boys from the Steel City of Bhilai were beginning to express far more with an audacity steely and were even imitating a deep baritone.
Within the realm of my 8 year old curiosity, I happened to quiz them about the adoption of this very distinct avatar. And that's when they gave me that perplexed look as if I were some alien who had just arrived with no bearings of fellow sapiens. ”You haven't seen the movie "Yaraana?” I answered in the negative. “This is Amitabh Bachchan’s signature step!” That's my earliest recollection of the name but I had been introduced to his ilk of Vijay through my growing years. My Silsila (Relationship) with my Naseeb (my fortune) continued as I Kabhie Kabhie (Sometimes) even got my Math wrong with Do aur Do Paanch (2 and 2 made 5).One could list his entire filmography as every movie was possibly designed to fall in love with the biggest billboard of our subconscious bylanes, the brilliant baritone from Bombay. The Big Bachchan we later called Big B had made a beeline to live within. Much before we boys in India had even heard or seen Tom Hanks become Big in a flash in his sleep in a movie, we were enamoured, infatuated, riveted with the thought of becoming men in our boyish Bata PT shoes.....)..rest in the book
#amitabhbachchan #actorlife #mybestie
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a year agoprof.satish.jayaram
Perfectly captured in the essence of idolising the Man Of All Time really
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