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Wednesday, 11th June 2014, 04:00 PM IST Few people know that the living legend Amitabh Bachchan had dreamt of becoming an RJ long before trying his luck in Bollywood. We have heard that the star even went to audition at the studio of All India Radio in Mumbai.
Popular radio announcer Ameen Sayani recently revealed that he earlier did not have time to meet Mr Bachchan as he didn’t have an appointment for an audition. He said to a popular daily, in an interview, “It was somewhere in late 60s when I used to do 20 shows a week,spending most of the day locked up in the sound studio as I was involved in the every process of radio programming. One day, a young man named Amitabh Bachchan walked in without an appointment for a voice audition. I had not a second to spare for this thin man. He waited and left and came back a few more times. But I could not see him and kept telling him through my receptionist to take an appointment and come.”
Later when Sayani met Amitabh at an award function and got talking he discovered that Big B was the same man who came for an audition years ago. He added, “Bachchan had come as chief guest for an award function and he spoke about his struggling days when he had gone thrice to a radio station and was not even allowed to sit for an audition. I was shocked to hear that. Later, when I interviewed him we spoke about this at length and laughed on it.” Sayani now feels whatever happens, happens for the best. He said, “Today, though I regret denying him an audition, I realise that what happened was for the best for both of us. I would have been on the streets and he would have got so much work on radio that Indian cinema would have lost its biggest star.” |