Daulatpur (UP) (PTI): Amitabh Bachchan may be a Bollywood icon but he sees himself quintessentially as a "chhora Ganga kinarewala".
"I may have settled eslewhere but I was always called 'chhora Ganga kinarewala (the boy from the Ganga backwaters'," he said, recalling the lines of the hugely popular song 'Khaike paan Banaraswala...' from the 1970s blockbuster 'Don'.
"Sometimes people criticise me saying that I have settled elsewhere. It is true but I am also from this state ... and so were my forefathers," he said, drawing lusty cheers from the crowd after laying the foundation stone of a college in the name of his daughter-in-law Aishwarya in this village of Barabanki district.
Wearing a white 'kurta pajama' with a shawl draped over his shoulders, the actor appeared in a nostalgic mood.
Accompanied by his wife Jaya, actor son Abhishek, Aishwarya and actress-turned-politician Jaya Prada, he recited excerpts from his late father Harivansh Rai Bachchan's famous poem 'Madhusahala' in his familiar baritone.
The actor was also at his caustic best when he turned to the battery of TV cameras and journalists and said their "blessings are essential".
"Aap ki kripa rahe to hum sabka uddhar ho sakta hai' (If you people bless us we all will be saved)," he said.
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