Gerald D'Cunha

There will be nothing new to write on my hero – Amitabh Bachchan, today. Everything about him is written and spoken by someone or the other. Even if I say in my Post, today, “A very happy b’day, sir”, it will simply pass by like a ship passing by the night! Still, I want to say something… I just die to! I was in eight or ninth standard. During the lunch break, one afternoon, I was flipping through the pages of a magazine in our school library, back home in Mangalore. There was a short article on this tall, new-comer and his just released movie – ‘Bombay to Goa’.  I don’t know why, but I fell in love with this star, immediately! It was 1972. Forty years since that afternoon, I still feel the same admiration for the man – who like that roller-coaster ride in that movie – has come this far. And, unbelievably so! There is nothing new for me to write about him… as I said at the outset, today.  His initial rejections… The breaks… The st...