Over the last few months, social media has been treated to a recounting of episodes from actor Amitabh Bachchan's large reserves of Kolkata memories, triggered by the shoot schedules of work-in-progress film Piku in the City of Joy.
This photo that Mr Bachchan posted on Twitter has one such story behind it.
The tale, told by Mr Bachchan on his blog yesterday, dates from when the Angry Young Man was just making his presence felt. In 1975, Mr Bachchan was shooting Do Anjaane in what was then Calcutta, a city he had lived and worked in for some years before switching lanes and careers to Bollywood. Deewar had just released and Calcutta gave the young Amitabh Bachchan a hero's welcome. The film crew were shooting the song Luk Chhip Luk Chhip Jao Na at the Botanical Gardens that lay across the Hooghly and, because the homecoming meant that Mr Bachchan was mobbed wherever he went, the hour-long drive to location was replaced by a steamer ride across the river.
The crew picked a 'safe' spot to film in, a lake separating the from the fans who were being held back by local police. Here's what happened next, as written by Mr Bachchan:
One young man on the other side of the lake, persisted with the authorities that he had to get my autograph. When told it would not be possible to go across the waters of the lake he insisted. Me seeing his unstoppable want asked the Police to let him through. But how would he come ! No problem, he put a piece of paper and pen in his mouth and gently swam with it across the water!
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