All my films can never match my father's writings: Amitabh
Mumbai, May 24 (UNI) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has said not one of the hundreds of films he had acted, would in substance, ever match the strength and value of writings of his late father Harivanshrai Bachchan.
''He has been my inspiration, my example and one I strive each day to emulate,'' Amitabh said.
''My father, acknowledged as a great Hindi poet, was the first Indian to do his PhD in English Literature from Cambridge. His thesis - WB Yeats and Occultism, gave him his doctorate in 1954,'' the actor has written in his blog.
''He prepared seven drafts of his thesis using pencil. The ink required for the job would have cost him a lot. And when he returned from England, instead of bringing us children the customary toys and games to play, he brought along the biggest and greatest gift I ever received from him--the seven pencilled drafts of his thesis,'' he recollects.
''This, Harivanshrai said with utmost pride, is all that I could afford to bring you. We have those drafts safely sealed and kept away as a testimony of his labour. Not one of the hundreds of films I have done will ever compare, or in substance ever match, the strength and value of those writings,'' says Amitabh.
Turning
poetic,
he
said,
''My
father's
words
teach
me
each
day
a
new
lesson
--Jo
beet
gayi
so
baat
gayi,
Jeevan
may
ek
sitara
tha,
Mana
woh
behad
pyara
tha,
Woh
toot
gaya
toh
toot
gaya.
Amber
ke
aanan
ko
dekho,
Kitne
iske
tare
toote,
Kitne
iske
pyare
chhoote.
''Jo
chhot
gaye
phir
kahan
mile
Par
poocho
toote
taron
ka,
Kab
amber
shok
manata
hai,
Jo
beet
gayi
so
baat
gayi.
(What
has
happened
has
happened!
In
your
life
there
was
a
star,
Agreed
that
it
was
bright
and
beautiful.
If
it
has
broken
today,
it
is
broken!
Look
at
the
courtyard
of
the
sky,
How
many
of
its
stars
break
away
from
it,
How
many
of
its
stars
leave
it
and
go
away.
But
of
all
the
stars
and
loved
ones
the
sky
loses,
Have
you
ever
seen
the
sky
mourning
for
them!
What
has
happened
has
happened).''
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