New Delhi: Superstar Amitabh Bachchan recalled his old days in his latest blog and wrote about working in Kolkata during his youth. The actor remembered earning a salary of Rs 1640 and living with his gang of boys in a small room.
The actor shared a tweet that read, “The last day of @SrBachchan’s job in Blackers company in Kolkata was 30 Nov 1968. Salary 1640 Rs. File is still preserved there till date.”
Calling it ‘extraordinary’ that the company has still kept the record, Big B called his days in Kolkata as the most independent.
He wrote, “those days in Calcutta , now Kolkata .. free ..freedom .. freeeessstttt .. just the most independent times ever .. 8 of us in a 10′by 10′ room .. those were the days my friend .. office hours, then evening with the guys checking out the joints of popularity .. no money to enter them, but standing around with the hope that some day we shall .. and we did .. pooling in .. buttering up the gate keepers .. telling them when time improves shall look after them .. haha never happened ..”
The actor also noted how his life changed when he switched his profession and became an actor.
“BUT .. when in new profess .. and the shoot in city .. visiting same places , now getting invited to them .. and the change .. meeting those ol’ times and people and giving them the desired promise of yore .. visiting all the ol’ streets of residence in the middle of the night .. and recollecting each and every spot and what transpired there .. some unpleasant but generally all in the goodness of events .. some friends lost .. some of those times still around .. nostalgia .. and the love of them that remained till the last with us ..” Big B wrote in his blog.
Amitabh Bachchan was last seen in ‘Uunchai’ along with Parineeti Chopra, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Neena Gupta, Sarika.