Amitabh Bachchan's Official Blog

DAY 1919

Jalsa, Mumbai July 17, 2013 Wed 11:58 PM

Walaa Zakariya Mohamed Ali … wishing you a very happy birthday .. joy and smiles through out … lots of love form us all ..

And .. to Anthony, Agnes, Dipal, Arun … gracious thanks for visiting and spending time with me .. the teddy bear was delivered to Aaradhya and she loved it … almost pulled its ears out ..!!

Read some good ones from a friend who sent me this ..

RED SKELTON’S RECIPE FOR THE PERFECT MARRIAGE

1. Two times a week we go to a nice restaurant, have a

little beverage, good food and companionship.

She goes on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.

2. We also sleep in separate beds.

Hers is in California, and mine is in Texas.

3. I take my wife everywhere,

but she keeps finding her way back.

4. I asked my wife where she wanted to go for our anniversary.

“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said.

So I suggested the kitchen.

5. We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

6. She has an electric blender, electric

toaster and electric bread maker.

She said “There are too many gadgets, and no place

to sit down!” So I bought her an electric chair.

7. My wife told me the car wasn’t running well

because there was water in the carburettor.

I asked where the car was. She told me, “In the lake.”

8. She got a mud pack and looked great for two days.

Then the mud fell off.

9. She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, “Am I too late

for the garbage?” The driver said, “No, jump in!”.

10. Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce.

11. I married Miss Right. I just didn’t know her

first name was ‘Always’.

12. I haven’t spoken to my wife in 18 months.

I don’t like to interrupt her.

13. The last fight was my fault though.

My wife asked, “What’s on the TV?”

I said, “Dust!”.

Had some interesting meetings with the officials of the Police Force, who are wanting to create awareness among the educate city people about drink driving. Of getting some material out to caution the roadies and their likes that 'drinking and driving’ is just not on ..

Some alarming statistics are being made out for me, but it was shocking to learn that 1.4 lakh people die in India per year from road accidents. That some of the laws of the IPS are more than a hundred years old, from around 1870’s, when India was ruled by the British, when India then was a police state. That was pre Independence. But now with its freedom none of the laws have undergone any reconsideration. Some of the laws allow the culprit in a driving incident get bail for a meagre Rs 9.5/- .. a traffic violation can get you a fine of Rs 100/- and you are out of there, to commit another violation ..

I have volunteered to partake in audio visuals where all the directions for traffic norms need to be put across for those that may be unaware of them.

And then earlier on another Award from Whistling Woods Film School, the private institution run by Subhash Ghai, to give away also the degrees of the passing out students. A joy to meet all the young aspirants, and to see in them the future of this glorious Industry ..

the award was called the Maestro Award … but the true owners of that title were the ones standing to my left … the most distinguished and pandits of classical music - Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasia, the flautist and Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, the master of the unique, santoor ..