Amitabh Bachchan: The illustrious career of Amitabh Bachchan spans more than five decades. The megastar continues to enjoy unrivalled fame and popularity and has a sizable fan base. Big B, however, experienced his fair share of difficulties in his early years. In his blog, Amitabh Bachchan reminisced the good old days and recalled his initial days in Kolkata when he used to earn a meagre Rs 1640 a month way back in 1968. He also wrote that he used to share a tiny room with 7 others.
Amitabh Bachchan gets nostalgic
Amitabh Bachchan shared a screenshot of a tweet in his blog that read, “The last day of @SrBachchan’s job in Blackers company in Kolkata was 30th Nov 1968. Salary 1640 Rs. File is still preserved there till date.” Big B then marvelled over the fact that there’s still a record of this after so many years. He continued by saying that his freedom and independence were most during those years in Kolkata. Amitabh Bachchan revealed that he shared a 10-square-foot room with seven other people.
“8 of us in a 10′by 10′ room .. those were the days my friend .. office hours, then evening with the guys checking out the joints of popularity .. no money to enter them, but standing around with the hope that some day we shall .. and we did .. pooling in .. buttering up the gate keepers .. telling them when time improves shall look after them .. haha never happened ..” wrote Big B.
“BUT .. when in new profess .. and the shoot in city .. visiting same places , now getting invited to them .. and the change .. meeting those ol’ times and people and giving them the desired promise of yore .. visiting all the ol’ streets of residence in the middle of the night .. and recollecting each and every spot and what transpired there .. some unpleasant but generally all in the goodness of events .. some friends lost .. some of those times still around .. nostalgia .. and the love of them that remained till the last with us .. NOW .. new fresh friends and Ef .. steady loving filled with emotion and great respect and care,” he added.
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Amitabh Bachchan was last seen in Goodbye and Uunchai. Up next, he will star in The Intern, the official Hindi adaptation of Hollywood film of the same name, alongside Deepika Padukone.
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