Amitabh Bachchan recalls once lost cool on father legedary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
It’s very well-known in the Indian Film Industry that much often Amitabh Bachchan speaks passionately on his father, legedary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. He has time and again recited his poems on various occasions and even shared his memories of him on his blog. One such time was back in June 2008, when Amitabh revealed he lost his cool and marched into his father’s study to object towards being born.
In his blog he has said that he was getting accustomed to his newly found freedom after his boarding school and was exposed to the ‘complex’ world in college. “From being told what to do, you are now telling what should be done. Almost overnight you become the saviors of the world and of humanity with your idealistic and non idealistic utterances,” Big B wrote in the blog post.
Exasperated with the new pressures of life, Amitabh couldn’t stop himself from questioning his father. “Angered, frustrated, strengthened and armed with unreasonable thought, he walked into my father’s study one evening and for the first time in his life, with choked emotion, raised his voice at him and screamed – Why did you give birth to him? Aapne humein paida kyun kiya?” Amitabh recalled.
Adding that his father, immersed as he always was in his writing, looked up at him with some initial surprise and then settled down to a more understanding posture and remained so for almost eternity. No one spoke. Not him. Not Amitabh further quoting
Not a sound,” the Kalki 2898 AD star shared, adding that the night which followed was ‘uncomfortable’ for him.
Next day, Amitabh revealed, his father came up to him and handed him a piece of paper. The paper featured a poem with the title — Nayi Leek. The poem was the answer to Amitabh’s question. He shared a picture of the poem on the blog along with the translation.
He wrote his son asks him– Why did we give birth to him And he did not possess an answer to this. That even.his father did not ask him before giving birth to him. Nor he asked his father before producing him. Nor his grandfather did ask his father before bringing him,” translated the poem.
“Why don’t you make a new beginning, a new thinking, ask your sons before giving birth to them,” he wrote. Harivansh Rai Bachchan concluded the poem by suggesting, “Why don’t you make a new beginning, a new thinking, ask your sons before giving birth to them.”
Referring to his father’s words, Amitabh urged fans to not have excuses in life and not find anyone to blame. “There are no excuses in life and no blame. Every morning is a fresh challenge. Either you learn to pick up the gauntlet and fight or learn to surrender to it. So long as there is life, there is struggle!” he wrote in his blog.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan passed away in 2003, at the age of 95.
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