Scenes from Books…Scene 3: Year: 2013
30.1.2013, Mumbai
It is 7pm at Hotel Novotel in Juhu and
Bachchan arrives on the dot of time to inaugurate my last of the trilogy on him
Amitabh Lexicon. We are a bit
flustered as we are still giving final touches to the venue and the set.
We have the presence of mind to
immediately whisk him into another room where the media is waiting for him on
the red carpet. They are requested to restrict questions to the event but as
usual they ask what they want to.
Bachchan has come directly from another
event and is looking very glamarous seated between glam divas Priyanka Chopra
and Anushka Sharma.
I chat with him on the Making of an Icon
and ask him to elaborate on specific words that combine the ingredients of
stardom.
He is amused by the process and enjoys
it but restriction of time prevents us to complete the entire journey.
When the conversation ends he is
surrounded by people clamoring for autographs and photographs. He is exhausted
but polite and pleasant. Some things never change I guess.
When I see him off at the gate I notice
that his car has changed. It is a smart tall car, impressive but I apologise I
can’t recognize the brand.
Bhawana
Somaaya/ www.bhawanasomaaya.com
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