(Indian Express) On Holi, megastar Amitabh Bachchan reminisced about not just some of the best days that he had playing the festival of colours, but also the times when the Hindi film fraternity members were used to “losing their status and position to become one” for fun.The 73-year-old, who has been associated with some of the best Bollywood songs on Holi, shared personal photographs of his past celebrations of the festival with some of his colleagues from the film world.
He wrote: “It was such innocent and fun times… Just gangs of friends enjoying… Losing their status and position to become one with us and all… Such a humbling feel. Now… Well I don’t know, everything has become so… Ah forget it… Love to all and happy holi.”
Big B mentioned how Holi is a festival “played with such abandon and passion”.
“The best ones were played at Allahabad when I was very young and Father was in University teaching in the English department. The students would all come over and over ribald songs and music our homes were a flush of great camaraderie and happiness,” he added.
Delhi, he said, was a little “subdued, because it invariably fell in March when it was still quite cold and the water was a most unwelcome commodity”, he stressed that in Kolkata it was “rage”.