PM Modi and Amitabh Bachchan
New Delhi: Actor Amitabh Bachchan, popularly known as Big B in Hindi films, is an artist who has a very old relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has been a part of the schemes run by the Modi government, whether it is the Swachhata Abhiyan started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the year 2014 or the plan to create awareness about Corona by becoming people’s caller tune during the Corona epidemic in the year 2020.
No money for Gujarat tourism video shoot
When the Prime Minister was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Big B was also the brand ambassador of Gujarat Tourism. He did not take a single penny for the video shoot he did during Gujarat Tourism. Regarding this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself said that Amitabh worked for it for free. However, do you know how Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Amitabh Bachchan for the first time?
Amar Singh had arranged the meeting between Amitabh and PM Modi
Late Amar Singh had once told that in the year 2016, he had arranged a meeting between Amitabh Bachchan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Then Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. Amitabh was then promoting his film ‘Paa’. It was only after meeting Amitabh that Narendra Modi offered him to become the brand ambassador of Gujarat Tourism. Years ago, Amitabh Bachchan had shared an anecdote on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday that when he met him in the year 2016, he said, let’s go watch a movie. He took me to the theater in his car. We watched the film and had food together.
When PM Modi reached Amitabh surrounded by the crowd
In the year 2023, Amitabh Bachchan reposted a post of PM Modi and said that he also wishes to visit Kailash. Responding to this post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote, Rann Utsav is starting in the coming days and I urge you to visit Kutch. You have not even visited the Statue of Unity.
On 22 January 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was doing the Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. Amitabh Bachchan was also present as a guest in this ceremony. After his address here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was meeting all the guests who came to the program one by one. He also inquired about the well-being of Amitabh Bachchan surrounded by the crowd. (With IANS inputs)
