Amitabh Bachchan tells the story of his first encounter with trains at age 2; Appeals to commuters to travel safe!

Mumbai: The Central Railway has roped in Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan to spread the message of safe train travel. The CR issued a short video message Wednesday in which Bachchan appeals passengers to follow safety rules, not to cross the tracks and use foot over-bridges instead. "Life doesn't give you a lifeline always," Big B cautions the commuters in the video. Bachchan remembered his first tryst with the railway when he was two years old and recounted how he was mesmerised when he saw a train for the first time. The two-minute-long video message was released at a function at the iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) building here in the presence of CR's general manager D K Sharma and other officials. Sharma said, "People nowadays are so engrossed in their mobile phones, they become inattentive towards safety rules. You may be lucky 99 times but you may not be lucky enough on the 100th time. So please, be careful and follow the rules." In the video, Big B narrates a story from his childhood when he was a 2 yr old toddler and how he left his father's hand at the railways station on his first ever trip to one and climbed up to the the railways bridge to watch the trains passing below. His first encounter with the trains is a beautiful listening. Check out the video below!

T 2973 - An effort for the Railways .. https://t.co/Os3yMpbiC6

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) October 24, 2018

Amitabh also makes a mention of his film 'Sholay' and 'Coolie'. While talking about to fans in the video appealing to nation to keep railways clean and stay safe, he says- "Rail se judi meri kayi yaaden hain... Sholay film ka chalti train pe filmaya gaya fight scene.. 'Coolie' film ke dauraan rail platform par huyi shooting.." A recent query under the Right to Information (RTI) had found that 18,423 people died and 18,847 people were injured in train-related mishaps in the Mumbai region between January 2013 and August 2018. As many as 1,974 people have died in the first eight months of the current year in such mishaps, the RTI reply said. (With inputs added to PTI) Watch the video below: