Throwback to: When Amitabh shared he was chain smoker and drinker
Throwback to: When Amitabh shared he was chain smoker and drinker
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In one of the old interviews, Bollywood Legend Amitabh Bachchan shared of being a chain smoker, meat-eater, and into alcohol.
While the Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan happens to be a teetotaler, this wasn’t always the case.
He went on to reveal that he neither smokes nor into alcohol and non-veg. It isn’t anything religious but simply a matter of taste. In his family, his father is a vegetarian and mother is not. Similarly, Jaya eats meat. In fact, he used to drink and smoke as well but now given them up. In Calcutta(now Kolkata), he smoked 200 cigarettes a day, yes, that’s right, 200, but then gave it up after landing in Bombay(Mumbai).
didn’t really need it.
His habits doesn’t cause him any problems except when while shooting abroad. Then, it becomes difficult to get vegetarian food.
The actor also opened up on being a non-violent person but accepted that he would lose cool in his younger days. se my temper often. Of course, he got into a few fights in his college days but that’s about all. Screen violence is very unreal. It’s meant to be fantastic and people accept it as that.
In 1989, Amitabh’s father-in-law, Taroon Coomar Bhaduri, spoke on his impressions as an actor saying that he is often asked what sort of a man Amitabh really is. Is he a modern-day Don Juan, a fellow always out for fun? The fact is he is just the opposite. Amit, in real life, is an introvert. He talks only when it is necessary. He is not given to unnecessary exuberance,” he had written, adding, that despite his image.
Normally a recluse and very reticent, he has a fantastic sense of humour. But he also is a very sensitive person who gets easily hurt. He is a man of strong likes and dislikes, and his circle of friends is a very close one. He rarely attend parties.
News Edit KV Raman
