BIG B: ART OF CINEMA IS A SMALL CONTRIBUTION

               SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN: ART OF CINEMA IS A SMALL CONTRIBUTION


                         A HUMBLE BIG B CONSIDERS HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTRY
                A  SMALL ONE WHEN COMPARED TO THE OTHER LUMINARIES LIKE 
              "ISRO"
               CHIEF G. MADHVAN NAIR FELICITATED BY THE " LIMCA BOOK'S OF 
               RECORDS" AT A FUNCTION HERE. BIG B WAS FELICITATED FOR BEING
               AMONG 20 ( TWENTY ) "PEOPLE OF THE YEAR", WHO MADE INDIA PROUD.
               "I FEEL VERY HUMBLE". GREAT LUMINARIES ARE PRESENT HERE, 
               ACKNOWLEDGING OUR CONTRIBUTION IN WHATEVER WAY WE HAVE 
               CONTRIBUTED IN OUR RESPECTIVE FIELDS. THE ART OF CINEMA IS 
                SMALL, A SMALL CONTRIBUTION COMPARED TO THEM," BIG B SAID
                THAT, AFTER BEING FELICITATED ON TUESDAY. 


                           SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN EXPRESSED HIS GRATITUDE TO THE 
               AUDIENCE
               FOR SUPPORTING HIM IN HIS TOUGHEST TIMES. " I DEDICATE THIS 
               RECOGNITION TO THE PEOPLE OF COUNTRY WHO HAVE STOOD BY ME
               AND HAVE PROVOKED ME TO DO BETTER.  THANK YOU, INDIA," BIG B 
               SAID. ABHISHEK BACHCHAN, ALONG WITH WIFE AISHWARYA RAI 
               BACHCHAN, WAS ALSO PRESENT AT THE FUNCTION WHERE THE HINDI 
               & MALYALAM EDITONS OF THE BOOK WERE ALSO UNVEILED BY
               SRI AMITABH BACHCHAN AND G. MADHAVAN NAIR.


                           BIG B WAS THE FIRST INDIAN AND ASIAN TO BE FEATURED IN
               THE WAX 
               WORLD OF MADAME TUSSAUDS IN LONDON AND HAS BAGGED A 
                NUMBER OF AWARDS, INCLUDING FOUR "NATIONAL AWARDS". 
                HE WAS ALSO GIVEN PADMA SHRI & PADMA BHUSHAN IN THE YEAR
                1984 AND 2001 RESPECTIVELY.


                            AMITJI ALSO HOLDS THE RECORD OF MAXIMUM NUMBER 
                OF SCENES 
                23 ( TWENTY THREE ) IN FIVE HOURES FOR THE FILM " SHOOTOUT AT 
                LOKHANDWALA."


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