Amitabh Bachchan remembers shooting at Rabindranath Tagore’s residence

Amitabh Bachchan, whose latest film 102 Not Out with Rishi Kapoor is performing well at the box office, remembered shooting at Rabindranath Tagore's residence on his 157th birth anniversary.

By: IANS | Mumbai | Updated: May 7, 2018 1:13:25 pm
amitabh bachchan Amitabh Bachchan shares his memories of shooting at RabindranathTagore’s residence.

On Rabindranath Tagore’s 157th birth anniversary on Monday, megastar Amitabh Bachchan went down memory lane remembering shooting at the Nobel laureate and poet’s residence and described it as “pious precincts”.

“It is Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary for the seventh of May and as I recollect I am driven to those moments at Thakur Badi (home) in Kolkata, my rendition of the National Anthem and its shooting inside the pious precincts of the residence of Tagore,” Amitabh, 75 wrote on his blog.

The cine icon said Tagore’s writings and contributions to art and literature are inspiring.

“His genius in his thoughts his writings and his contributions to the arts and literature are inspiring and legendary now, but as you travel through those doors and rooms of his place of residence you feel blessed that such a man walked the face of this earth. How does one acquire such wisdom.

“How does one acquire such writing… How does one acquire this sense of music…How does one acquire his artistry in its sketching, his creation of the Shanti Niketan and its wonders,” wrote the son of the celebrated writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

On the acting front, Amitabh’s film 102 Not Out has just hit the big screen. The movie also stars veteran actor Rishi Kapoor. Rishi and Amitabh have come together on the silver screen after 26 long years. While Amitabh portrays the role of a 102-year-old man who aims to break the record of the oldest living person on the Earth held by a Chinese man, Rishi Kapoor plays his 65-year-old son. The film which hit the screens on May 4 is faring well at the box office.