A Fictional Interview with Mr. Amitabh Bachchan
AB: Definitely Not Bijaya. You may ask whatever you want to ask.
BG: Sir, just tell me in a few words what is the guiding principle of your life?
AB: Live is lived. It’s not that some principles are set up and a person follows it.
BG: I get it, Sir. But as one goes through the life, his behavioral pattern sets a trend. And one can see the working of a thought principle in it. I am asking about that.
AB: If you keep that way, I was just a struggling young actor in the beginning. With my extra height , I was not even considered very good looking. Just like any young boy of my age, I was trying to be a person that would make my parents proud. There were failures and successes but one day, I discovered myself a superstar and people were crazy about me! Of course I enjoyed the status but never bothered about any guiding principle. But after some time, I started feeling a social responsibility. I looked into my surroundings and saw the base-level Indians are taken for a ride by a set of unscrupulous politicians. So I wanted to give them an honest politician.
BG: The real life version of the angry youngman that we see in the movies?
AB: You are joking but yes . I was really really angry when I joined politics; a bunch of pseudo politicians promising to save the earth but whose only ideology is saving the chair.
BG: Like the one ‘who cannot put the toothpaste back into the tube once it is out?”
AB: No comments.
BG: Sir, you surely have become diplomatic.
AB: No. I just learnt to let go of things that can’t be changed.
BG: Sir, Have anyone told you about your contribution towards national integration ?
AB: Yes. I know the young india used to attend to Kaun Banega crorepati with a religious zeal . I guess the average IQ of the nation had increased a bit. But for that one should thank the organizers rather than me.
BG: I meant Hindi movies. Your south Indian fans had passively leant Hindi just to enjoy your movies.
I saw your Jurmana three times to pick up the shades of dialogue
AB: Really! I am really happy that people learnt Hindi just to watch my movies. But Jurmana.? I can’t recall the name.
BG: You have done so many films that each one of them can’t ring a bell.
AB: wait. Is it one with Rakhi in my opposite role. It had great music.
BG: Yes, Sir. You have donned many roles. Which one gave you maximum satisfaction?
AB: All. Actually if I were not interested in a thing I wouldn’t have undertaken at all. Whatever I did right or wrong , I was totally involved when I did it. May be everybody is.
BG: yet there must be some moments when you had a sense of fulfillment; a sense of arriving at a goal.
AB: yes there were some moments when I felt like completing a cycle. Strangely, those were the moments when I had struck rock bottom and people wrote me off. Those moments when people were treating me as retired superstar, I could live as an average man , living his life-- not running towards a goal. I never felt sad , a sense fulfillment used to fill me at those times.
BG: You have touched every sphere of life. Acting , TV , or administration—all. What is your prioritity at this stage?
AB: I have got only thing to achieve. To be able to give expression to my true feelings . Being a celebrity has lots of advantages but it has one serious disadvantage. One has to wear a mask ;always. I am trying to break that mask and be the ordinary man who doesn’t have to think of consequences before uttering single every sentence.
BG: Given the circumstances, it is a very ambitious goal but I wish you luck Sir.
AB: Thank you . I must leave now and I think your ten question quota is over.
BG: Thank you and best of luck Sir.
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