Ambika Hinduja has always dreamt of working with the doyen of Bollywood — Amitabh Bachchan, and today she admits that when she finally did for her upcoming film, it was a dream come true for her.
“As a child I had dreamed of working with Mr Bachchan, and when this dream was realised, I was awestruck by his mesmeric talent, as perfect as it is peerless. Outside of being a celebrated actor, he has not only been a role model for his children and family, but for an entire generation,” she says.
Ambika recalls that even celebrated Hollywood actor Sir Ben Kingsley was also ‘touched’ with Big B’s personality when he was filming with him in London. “He told me that he was profoundly impressed with Mr Bachchan’s presence and his acting genius. I suppose when you create a climate for perfection to thrive, it does,” she says.
But the biggest treat for anybody is a chance to listen to Big B recite poetry — and what better poem than one by the great poet, late Harivansh Rai Bachchan, his father.
Ambika reminisces, “While we were filming in Pune at a college campus, late last year, he recited a section of his great father’s classic poem, Madhushala, for his admirers at the college, the cast and crew. To hear his incomparable baritone fill the auditorium with the wisdom of his father’s words filled me with poignant wonderment. Mr. Bachchan served the memory of his father with an admiration and composite equality that would make any father unspeakably proud. And he did what legends are meant to do: he inspired me to be a better daughter,” she adds, ending with a belated wish for his birthday, “I wish him good health and the uplifting comfort of happiness.”
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