On Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s 157th birth anniversary on Monday, megastar Amitabh Bachchan went down memory lane remembering shooting at the Nobel laureate and poet\u2019s residence and described it as \u201cpious precincts\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s birth anniversary for the seventh of May and as I recollect I am driven to those moments at Thakur Badi in Kolkata, my rendition of the National Anthem and its shooting inside the pious precincts of the residence of Tagore,\u201d Amitabh, 75 wrote on his blog.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis genius in his thoughts his writings and his contributions to the arts and literature are inspiring and legendary now, but as you travel through those doors and rooms of his place of residence you feel blessed that such a man walked the face of this earth. How does one acquire such wisdom.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow does one acquire such writing\u2026 How does one acquire this sense of music\u2026How does one acquire his artistry in its sketching, his creation of the Shanti Niketan and its wonders,\u201d wrote the son of the celebrated writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan.<\/p>\n
On the acting front, Amitabh\u2019s film 102 Not Out has just hit the big screen. The movie also stars veteran actor Rishi Kapoor. Rishi and Amitabh have come together on the silver screen after 26 long years. While Amitabh portrays the role of a 102-year-old man who aims to break the record of the oldest living person on the Earth held by a Chinese man, Rishi Kapoor plays his 65-year-old son. The film which hit the screens on May 4 is faring well at the box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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