A Fictional Interview With Mr. Amitabh Bachchan
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A Fictional Interview with Mr. Amitabh Bachchan

 BG: Good morning Sir. I am Bijaya Ghosh. An IGNOU student of  creative  writing in English course. You know 30% marks of each subject  for this  the course is  allotted   for assignments . The  assignment  maker of  IGNOU(2 009-10) had set a unique question --  ask  ten   questions  to my  favourite celebrity  as well as write  their answers. I have chosen you. Hope you don’t mind.

 

 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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