The cycle of life moves on. It brings fresh faces and ideas and compulsions. It brings commitment and challenge and hope and fulfillment. And desire. Desire to do better, to improve, to take a stand. To be uncertain and insecure. Afraid and hesitant. Because…

When you are all these.. life becomes beautiful. I want to lead a beautiful life, we all do. With respect and admiration for all that it throws in our path. When we shall respect and admire what life gives us, we become enlightened and strong.

At 80 plus years it was amazing to see Dev Saheb receive a lifetime achievement award last night. He appeared on stage, dressed as a young fashion conscious man, spoke as though he had just started his career and joyously looked forward to the umpteenth film he was making. His spirit and mind in tact and the bounce in his step pronounced, he signified the true meaning of a life spent on his terms and conditions.

My 40 years, and its reference seemed dull and futile almost, in front of this great recognition given to Mr Dev Anand’s craft. His years and years of service to this marvelous industry. His undying spirit and his love for life.

May God bless him with good health and may he continue to be a source of inspiration to the coming generations..

I miss the peace and quiet of Kanya Kumari. I miss it because it gave me time and space to contemplate, to think, to analyze my thoughts and feelings. In the bustle of Mumbai there is this great big machine that continuously keeps urging you to perform, to get activated. There is hardly time to breathe and hence hardly time to put ones thoughts in correct perspective. Much, therefore that I put down today, has a certain vacuous strain. There is much to say but it is being said in a preoccupied environment. It is not a state that one enjoys being in. So there must be pardon sought for any fall in quality or substance.

Discussions and meetings firming up future projects take up much of the day - Pa, RGV’s next now being co produced by the producer’s of Ghajini, as also Chenab Gandhi of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The calendar is filling up and the prospects of all members of the family spending time together fast diminishing. We are all there but not there.

Good night and god bless..

Amitabh Bachchan