Amitabh Bachhan's Blog : K Achuthan

Have you ever visited Amitabh Bachan's blog. I did. Must say that the guy
can write well. Looks like he has taken after his dad in some way. The
good thing that I liked about his writings is that he can write about
anything. Understandably, he links all subjects that he writes about to
something about him. He comes across as someone so articulate and
disciplined that even if he had not made it big in the Bollywood, he would
still have made it in life.

I recall watching his movie for the first time. It was Zanjeer in Davison,
along with Anil, in 1973 May. They say that was the begning of "the angry
young man". It was a powerful performance, for some of the images still
linger in my mind.

As years went by, I recall reading about the mess that his company ABC was
in and how the banks were after him. I had been in that situation by then
and pitied about the scale of debts that he was in. He came out of it, and
so did I.

I dont watch movies, the last one I watched was Lagaan, so I cannot
comment about his films or his acting talents. All I can say for sure is
that whatever he has done so far, he has sought and received success.

You might wonder why I write about him now. I have recently been viewing
Asianets morning programme about Bhagvad Geetha. It says that one of the
ways that you can judge a man is through his children, by the way he has
broght them up. In one of his blogs recently, AB had mentioned about
bringing up his children and about how he and his wife had taken time to
inculcate values in them. I cannot comment about Abhishek as an actor
because I dont watch movies and I dont get to see/ know about his daughter
but sufficient if I say that he has two very well groomed children.

Ageing gracefully. If there was ever really an example, AB is one. I say
this with no strings attached, for I am not a fan of his.....perhaps the
last movie that I saw of his was Lawaris, a movie that I disliked so much
that I vowed never ever to watch any of his movies.

As I write this, I am reading a book called "THe Name Is Rajanikanth".
Yes, it is about Rajanikanth. This was gifted to me by my 18 years old
nephew who has never watched a movie about RK. His ambition is to work for
the UN and he follows RK's way to serve the society.

Amongst the success-starved Indians, we celebrate a AB, RK or Sachin. They
are mass entertainers, but they are also society-sensitive. I know that
most of us are society-sensitive too but this is just to say that you dont
have to be a politician to 'serve the masses'. Every bit counts.