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DAY 4971

Jalsa, Mumbai                  Oct 5/6,  2021                 Tue/Wed 12:43 AM

Tomorrow .. Oct 6th .. is the birthday of Ef Daisy M 🌼 .. and all our wishes for a wonderful day .. keep well and in sincere care .. the Ef

Oct 6,  2021            Wed 8:17 AM

.. and the apologies for this lapse in the presentation of the DAY earlier .. 

the effort to wind up a long and arduous day was just beginning to take its toll, and the head was keeling over the post, so the best to do on such conditioning was to allow it to keel over softer domain - the duvet and the bed ..

It was an ad., shoot, last day/night, written and executed in as aesthetic and artistic a manner as possible .. long pages of expression verbology and several conditioned magnifications where the device moves about in various directions ..

So even though the spoken was done in the very first express .. the magnification change and changes were time consuming .. and as is the norm , to save time , do a magnification and rush to do the photo stills, with the ever delightful Avinash Gowariker, who had ‘management complained’ about missing out his birthday wishes on the 4th .. and the embarrassment and heart break it caused him, especially since he was with family at the stroke of the midnight hour, and when the messages of congratulations and wishes started pouring in, mine that was expected , as is the norm at 00:02 am did not come .. 😦

sad .. because when I checked the phone I discovered that it had not been sent and so I took the stick and presented him pronto a gift in making up .. which which which .. he refused to accept .. ! 😯 and returned it back, giving the other embarrassment to me that I had already given much to him and that he would not accept anymore .. 

even the lure of giving the gift to his better half , did  not work .. 

some principles of some are unbreakable  ..

and I am equally embarrassed in posting below an article written by a dear journalist friend of long years .. but since it is already in the public domain, I thought I might as well ..

.. in deep embarrassment putting up another magazine cover ..

.. and you can download the entire magazine on the link below:

Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AlHQqLavwfoMPJ2dcTXTkASYAQ59B1VS/view?usp=sharing

and so bye .. the shoot timings are getting close and i must leave .. 

my love ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4967(i)

Jalsa, Mumbai                Oct 2,  2021              Sat 1:06 PM

Life goes on .. 

.. and so does work .. one day , one locale , several films and several photo shoots with several changes .. done and on to other works .. 

its not the numbers that matter .. its the number of times the opportunity was available to be able to do .. when opportunity stops, numbers become irrelevant .. yes searching for those opportunities is the want and the done .. search it then till it is found and then stop counting numbers .. 

.. and there it is .. the many forms for the day .. 

and after .. the travel back home or the work place on the body to mobilise the immobile and to keep the various chemicals the body emits or needs, to survive .. the body .. that fascinating object of immense desire and value .. 

.. there is so much to still explore and learn from it , for it , about it .. 

how did it all get together .. how did it be formed and in such perfection .. no wonder we pray in the Gods of the Almighty in various forms .. they knew .. and they existed .. they are the ONE .. we never see them .. we see them in others , in places and in situations .. 

may they be ever around .. 

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4950

Jalsa, Mumbai                     Sept 15/16,  2021                 Wed/Thu 12:37 AM

All in a days work .. and there is ever the impression that we do not have a tough life .. that work for us is a luxury .. 

yes work should ever be a luxury but not the way it is perceived and understood .. 

.. we are no proponents of defensive repartee , but the silent intent to do and move on .. for changing impressions among them that have formed opinions, shall never change .. 

we are blessed by the attention and grace and love given to us .. and we ever are in that debt to never be able to repay it .. 

how does one repay ..?

.. the connect I suppose .. the connect to acknowledge the wishes of following and the attention to the several impressions that many carry ..

.. and each day is a story of perfection and surprise of the ones that have followed and given pride of place to the celebrated .. 

that is our true earning ..

when the mass gives recognition .. when they bring the broadest smile for thee .. when they write and compose and gift the personal objects of art designed in their individual capacity in admiration, be informed that they form the decorated home of us .. at least for me .. they are all over the living space , that remains imbedded in the love affection and the sentiment of the giver ..

the warmth of your give .. is the healing that keeps us breathing in unison with the rest ..

.. it is short lived I do know .. it is the norm .. but for us it is the everlasting remembrance of a lifetime .. that shall remain .. always .. EVER .. 

it is these adornments that remind and give credence to the intent of a link between us .. impossible to put away .. 

stay .. stay with me .. stay with the breathing lungs of your destined affection and may the reciprocal be known - ETERNAL !!

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4949(i)

fl16kbcFC                         Sept 15,  2021                 Wed 8:27 AM

Birthday - EF Mahendra Chaudhari MC .. Ef Ritika Jain .. Wednesday, September 15 .. warm greetings to both our Ef on this special day and the wishes to be safe and protected .. love from the Ef family ❤️❤️❤️

The night was hurried .. buried in the urgency of the work to be done in some immediacy .. that done it was imperative to attend to home chores in its management .. they are a delight are they not .. to know and discover how the home works technically .. the electricity supply the waterworks and the issues that come up .. functioning of the electronics on hand and in use .. the kitchen and much more .. 

Always a joy and a learning ..

BUT mostly this morning at work to steady and ready the ship that moves .. viz moi .. and to be in shape for the day ..

THEY are ready for me .. I should be ready for them .. 

Soon later we meet ..

My love ..

Amitabh Bachchan 

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DAY 4949

Jalsa, Mumbai                    Sept 14,  2021                Tue  4:34 PM

on the occasion of Hindi Divas , a dear friend sent me this written by another dear friend of his .. 

its beautifully done ..

.. my apologies for those Hindi challenged, but there is no other way to resent this than this .. and it cannot be translated because the reason and the essence shall be invalid ..

my love .. 

.. actually an after thought .. it can be translated .. but shall do later ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4948

Jalsa, Mumbai                   Sept 13/14,  2021                 Mon/Tue 12:59 AM 

Birthday - EF Sudeep Satyaranjan Roy ; Ef Manish Jain Rajnandgaon  ..  September 14 .. greetings and affection on this day for you .. love from the Ef family

.. there is no precise reason to be jumping with joy .. but even if there wasn’t, what harm .. 

because life has the method to put you in the spirits of joy and the reverse in moments of time .. not that this is what is happening here , but how wondeful to be able to say so  …

each moment of the day passes by in the reason and apprehension of what next .. this is over what next .. its never nothing to be next but it does not spread out in this manner .. 

.. so the policy is never to be in expectation .. never to be apprehending what next .. never hoping or thinking out the modalities of the next, but to live the present and rejoice in its abstractness .. for who knows many a modern day invention or thought came from the most unsecured, un remitted love ..

.. better to be frank and up front .. to be understood .. to be given that chance or moment .. and if not to ‘jump the wall and procure it’ .. as I heard somewhere .. ‘ if you are desperate to get something you shall have to take it away from him that has it ‘

.. came across in the midst of several other acts .. and before it lost its path typed it down on the utensil of everyday life - the mobile .. the saviour , the informer, the connector, the everything ever .. or perhaps that is what the makers in the other direction aim to achieve in notation on what ever instrument they may be using .. 

.. life and existence travel in your pocket .. and that is not even metaphorically stated .. it is indeed there in its existence .. 

.. and pocket may be far too convenient for words .. palm is better .. the palm .. there is where it resides for most of the waking day for all .. planning plotting and guiding planning for us all the while .. 

.. but no planning can ever surpass the planning of the unknown .. and that shall remain so .. so why worry .. or be in some informative jargon for the jargon of the benefit of society, that were working in the right temperament for the betterment all around ..

why why why .. why do I move even before the stationary has been established .. stationary , still , unmoved .. why ..

perhaps this may have answers ..

.. or this ..

.. cannot really tell .. 

best to leave it .. in dismay rather than be of some search to discover reason .. at times it proves futile ..

SO .. the after work work out was in conjunction with the grandson .. he be there before so the ambiance be set by him for the workout .. to be inspired in the working .. and it was such a delight to find that the ol’ timers music was superseding the present GEN ..

it was ‘i wanna hold you hand …’ beatles ; ‘i can get no satisfaction ..’ and ‘truti frutie bomba lootie .. bappoapa loobba ba tootie fruitee ‘ .. and the old guard of the early 60′s late 50′s finding attention now .. and when they hear me sing along the words , which have remained with me through time .. they are in shock .. how do you know all this ? 😯 .. 

.. haha .. buddy .. we are the older GEN .. we went through a very impressive stage of life .. the best of both ..  

.. but what times they were … 

.. the fervour of the Beatles unmatched by any such fever ever before or after .. each new record taking its time to reach Indian shores but when it did the excitement was immense .. 

.. the sing along times .. at parties at restaurants at every possible music outlet .. the Sunday jam sessions at the afternoons .. and when the sitar of ‘norwegian wood ‘ came out it was as if they had migrated into our very Indian personal world .. 

aah .. this were the days my friend .. 🎶🎶

love you all .. deeply ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4924

Jalsa, Mumbai                     Aug 20/21,  2021                    Fri/Sat  2:08 AM

The night is silent dark and deep .. 

inviting the sleep .. 

making a heap .. 

let it be deep .. 

it shall not weep .. 

for it is but silent dark and deep  😯😦

so did you ever fear of the sleep .. did you ever fear any at all .. in all parameters .. living beyond the trial of destiny , and the judgement of morality .. it would have been as confusing as it is now .. confusing and in the same advent as before .. slight, deviated and oblong .. !

Make sense .. perhaps not , for the deepest thought of the writing be in the throes of divinity , blessed by the winds of the procession that honoured many a visitor to the heights of wonder and awe .. 

.. the festival of festive harvesting .. infested by the imagery of the expressive eye nritya .. eternal and consumed by effect and oblivion .. you see it once and then the vision of its non presence appears momentarily and disappears .. 

time spent with Amitji and Alexa is consuming .. and one wonders if ever there shall be communication on it , with it and for it by the term end .. for its the graciousness of the words of Babuji that revolve the adaptation of the machine to the reality of its making .. 

In the world of the day .. the final factorial measurement in the mathematics of the new, shall ever be :

OPINIONS SELL ..!!

.. as does the pop art of this evening draw ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4923

Jalsa, Mumbai                  Aug 19/20,  2021                Thu/Fri 12:20 AM

Birthday - EF - Yogesh Prakash Pachange  .. Friday, August 20 .. greetings and wishes for the birthday and the love of all the Ef .. ❤️

In apprehension and the uncertainty of what the day would be .. how it would unfold .. the fear of disappointment with the work assigned .. and the need in those times to leave and speed away .. 

professional bindings keep you afloat and in the commitment to perform to the best of ability and need .. and that be the ‘mantra’ for all that needs attention .. the path is lonely and dark .. but leave not the path for it shall eventually lead you to the final destination ..

‘राह पकड़ तू एक चला चल ; पा जाएगा मधुशाला 

to reach the final destination of the symbolic Madhushala, doth one seek the path .. the many suggestions of its taking, but the poet doth says, catch but one path and keep at it going and thou shall reach the ultimate destination - the Madhushala  !!

where does it come from is a mystery and a question that has remained unanswered and most ignored .. but where , how does it occur .. in the  middle of the multiple waves of thought word and deed, a voice a look a finality overtakes the being and out comes the creative accomplishment .. and its fading soon as its over .. to the known normalcy .. or the normalcy known , not just by us but by them that believe the original normalcy .. in its most complexity of being .. 

.. a few encouragers about .. supposedly intent on the moral of the morality support they say .. but its a mere wordage , nothing more .. the presence of the ‘other’ is the vitality absent of its vital .. that is the known inside .. outside .. well .. just the being knows and the know is within ..

AAAHHHHH .. this sounds so pseudo nomadic .. bilge  ! 

leave leave leave before it devours you and the mind ..

come to better climes and this  .. hopefully .. and will fully .. 

.. and the hosting of them that have deserved the position of the seat .. in its warmth and unattainable depth of vision and knowledge .. of being with champions and honoured decorated nation proud beings .. 

BUT .. in the middle of all this the release of the film ‘chehre’ and the promotion that needs to be boosted, because the time is constrained and the medium opening up after intervals of long .. the intensity of the work .. the terrain of the -17 degrees of Slovakia .. the spoken word .. and the beauty of the written language .. 

.. and while you tackle the run to the end of the game the .. Amazon Alexa !!

.. the utility to be able to speak to me and receive answers in my voice through the magic of modern day technology with sound and audio .. of hours and hours of recordings - almost over 100 hours through days and nights .. the combining of this with the content that is hoped shall invite attention ..

… most importantly and one that brings great pride and one that the Ef and several others have asked for the  .. the recitation of Babuji’s works through my rendition in voice , but more importantly to be able to give it the sound of the music, that should accompany it .. and finally its presence on the Alexa model, seeking the device to be able to speak to ‘Amit ji’ ..

it has been launched today and it is anxiously awaited in reaction and presence .. 

there is much that occurs .. there is prayer and the gratitude to the Almighty .. for the well being of the several that suffer .. and the hope that all shall be well .. and for the gratitude in His generosity and grace ..

My wish for the night to good bye .. and love ❤️

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4900

Knur, Hyds                   July 28/29,  2021                 Wed/ Thu  2;34 AM

Birthday - EF - Amar .. Renu Brar .. Thursday, July 29 .. birthday wishes and the very best from the Ef .. love ❤️

Just finished the day at work and its very late .. and tomorrow is travel back .. early .. so excusé .. and pardon for the brevity ..

shall make up ..

good night ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4899

RFC, Hyds                        July 27,  2021                  Tue 12:22 PM

We can be late often enough .. but do not equate that to this the early one .. desire to connect remains unchanged and constant .. many may think otherwise , many do express that in many different ways .. 

‘you have not replied to me in a very long time - miss your messages’

‘have I hurt in any manner ; then why do you  not notice me ..’

‘you know .. no matter how much you may ignore me , I shall still love you ‘

‘sirrr .. need your blessings  .. ‘ .. have an examination/started a new business/ the progeny got a first job / covid has struck, and we are so worried .. please pray for us ../

‘you have forgotten me ..’!!

None of above goes un noticed or unread or at times ignored .. it remains with me throughout the day - the DAY - and it may not be observed in express on this post , but you cannot ever be forgotten .. 

.. what needs to be forgotten immediately is that they have come to the Vanity to say .. 

‘stop this whole business of writing to your EF .. the shot is ready .. and if you are not on set within an minute .. start looking for another job .. 😊😊😊🤣 ..

no just kidding ..

ok see ya .. got to go ..

love you ..

Amitabh Bachchan

Hyds, RFC … 2:35 PM 

.. so shot over .. a short running lunch break .. running ?

ya like its not a break but while you work .. eat .. 

and I am doing just that .. jogging along and sipping some soup .. 😜

.. and since no visitors are allowed , you shall not be able to see the jog .. 🤣🤣

… more later ..

kindly note with great care the affectionate on the spot connect with the Ef .. 

No complaints please in future .. right ..? 

AB

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DAY 4881

Jalsa, Mumbai                  July 9/10,  2021                Fri/Sat  1:35 AM

Birthday - EF - Jasbir Singh Cheema  .. Saturday, July 10 .. greetings on your birthday and wishes for a long and prosperous life .. love from the Ef

The hour late .. the wok intense .. and now sleep beckons .. excusé .. 

there is a lot happening and the World knows it .. just that the attitude has not changed .. much like the change we did hereon the page and its open difficulties ..

more later 

Amitabh Bachchan

SAT  9 :28 AM

The morn is early and the sleep is over drawn .. the guilt of excuse last night bears .. and the moment that should be with you arrives .. and the thoughts are scattered .. but the need to be here is greater ..

We are in the grip of uncertainty .. fresh ideas , fresh conditions , fresh unthought of disciplines and conditions .. the change that is forcing upon us the change is in strong supply and the prep for it has not yet met the needed requirements .. 

But mankind is a survival animal .. it finds ways and means , sometimes very innovative and fresh .. and the entire household of mankindness waits with baited breath when how and where it shall happen .. 

Happen it will .. the toll shall be taken and has been taken .. lessons have been learnt , executed and prolonged debates done and dusted with .. solutions float about and suddenly there shall emerge that conditioned well prepared sealed with absolute care and unbreakable faith , the matter , perhaps not in chemical state but in the state that can be heard read practiced .. 

The solution will be weighed .. understood .. and perhaps negated initially, but survive it shall .. the doggedness of the unbeaten, unconquered shall stand firm in resolute form to take on any and every storm ..

AMEN

.. to bed now .. for the slumber has not taken place yet .. struggling with some conditions that prevented it .. 

okay now don’t suddenly start questioning the health .. its all well .. love you ..

Bye .. be in free air and life ..

Amitabh Bachchan   

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DAY 4879

Jalsa, Mumbai                       July 7/8,  2021                  Wed/Thu  11:43 AM

.. you sit and review .. thoughts of the years gone by .. of the times with the departed .. and the memory sparkles in its brightest and reveals the visuals and times  ..

.. words in those early years , when cinema was an illusion for us at age 12 .. in the 50′s it was the privileged few among the group of friends that went surreptitiously into cinema halls saw films and came back to our little ‘adda’ to narrate in heightened excitement the story and the visuals that were witnessed by him .. smitten with the narration we sat and made our own impressions .. 

.. AND then one day .. you actually entered that darkened hall and saw first hand what had been heard and narrated .. and found yourself mouth open in awed emotion .. we now had our own ability to narrate the narration .. and the sense of superiority in its multiple variants engulfed us .. 

.. AND .. in that bubble of vacuumed superiority one name kept floating about in the resonance of our verbosity .. DILIP KUMAR ..

and then strangely on a family vacation in 1954 or ‘55 to Nepal, Kathmandu there came an evening when the hosts brought us with his aides, an opportunity to visit a cinema theatre .. to see a film .. 

.. the name cannot be remembered .. but the vision does .. and the name that had been floating in that vaccum suddenly took shape , right there on the screen in front of me .. large and in black and white .. that name , that visual often repeated in converse .. DILIP KUMAR .. 

.. there was something in his presence .. when  he appeared all others became a blurred focus .. when he spoke , you felt right , convinced .. 

.. and you came back with all of that home .. and it remained with you .. 

.. going to the theatre again , more so the ones in Hindi were not allowed .. it was more the fairy tale stories of English nursery in film that was our permissible content .. 

..and then another vacation to Bombay in the 1960′s and a random visit to a restaurant in the megapolis .. and there he was , near the entrance speaking to the owner of the place we were at .. after long contemplation which drove me to awe and shivering excitement, I decided to approach him for an autograph .. 

.. but no autograph book .. 

.. so out again in the street, a book bought and inside the restaurant again and the relief to still find him there .. the walk up to him .. he is concentrated conversation .. i push my words to him in general and the book in hand .. there is no reaction .. he did not even look at me or the book .. and after a short while walked away , out through the door and gone .. the autograph book still in my vacant hands .. 

.. the autograph book was not important at all .. it was his presence .. thats it ..

from then on it became a known story so any reference towards it would be a repetition of what you already know .. know from your point .. know in general .. but the actually knowing, was the observation in our maturity ..

.. you never found a single element out of place when he performed on screen or in his non public appearance , or even the public appearance .. his eyes his walk his each limb his every spoken word was like poetry .. the graph and the tone , the pauses the rapid fire , the run by a train , that glass of the sorrow and the inconsequential and consequential expressions of learning .. and then ..

.. then that character of the birthplace province , Uttar Pradesh , Awadh and I continue with the admiration .. his presence is not as inconsequentially fluid as the others that were about him, it was IT .. never could you fault or destroy his power of observation and delivery on screen .. there was no alternate .. that is how what it was meant to be .. 

.. the film Gunga Jamuna .. and the bubble inside has burst .. ..he is real .. he is not an actor , he is real .. he is HE ,.. 

.. how did he do it .. a mystery in the realm of performance .. and the confirmation that there can never be another .. 

.. years pass by .. several associations conversations and presence in his company .. him by your side in film as well .. 

.. and today ..

I stand in front of this mound on the earth, freshly dug .. a few garlands and flowers scattered about over the mound .. and no one around him .. 

.. he sleeps underneath .. under the earth of his bearing .. it is peaceful and quiet .. 

this large presence .. this mountain of talent .. this gregarious creative visionary .. this excellence of the excelled .. the ultimate .. now reduced to a small mound of grave .. 

he is gone … 

.. and the World has not stopped .. it has been in constant move .. and move we do  .. as do many others to everyday life .. in remembrance of his words and performance .. his every little detail that you spent with him .. he has gone , but not those remembrances .. 

.. thank you Cinema .. thank you ..

.. we can see him whenever we wish to .. in our homes in others homes in the palm of our hands .. we shall and can see him .. see him to observe what he left behind for us all and learn ..

.. history shall ever be .. 

before Dilip Kumar after Dilip Kumar  .. that is how it always was .. now more so than ever ..

a prayer for his soul  .. a silence 

Amitabh Bachchan

Opora 

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DAY 4878(i)

Chandivali Studios, Mumbai          July 7,  2021           Wed 11:02 AM

Never before … never after .. 

I have lost my idol .. 

an institution ..

.. the history of Indian Cinema shall ever be written with : 

‘before Dilip Kumar and after Dilip Kumar ..’

no words to express grief in his passing .. 

Silence .. 🤲🤲

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4871

Studios, Chandivali              June 29/30,  2021               Tue/Wed  8:00 AM

there is anxiety I know of the absence, but had to finish some urgent work … like see through the Euro game and then end result circumstances coerced me to bed ..

.. its dinner time on set but this is breakfast here , and none the better .. and eying the goodies is not what the call is .. its quite coincidental .. 

.. hello Ef , if you have worthy intelligent jokes could you send them here .. I need them for a cause of work and shall explain later .. please try .. and no need to flood me with them .. just for fun .. I do get the odd one now and then and they are quite superior , but could I have some more please .. 🙏

.. spending time with the colleagues on set and listening to the new generation thoughts is such a revelation .. how they view the World, the trends and morals and how it compares with the past .. and where they are leading us in the years ahead .. and you discover that the vast changes that is often attributed  to them are at times quite reasonable .. of course within the limits of tradition and social bindings of society .. there is great respect of the who the why and the where about, but also desire a break through to express themselves .. and this phrase ‘express themselves’ has almost become a coded vocabulary .. more so in the phase of individual accomplishments .. hear the short interviews of the Cricketers after a game and they ever wish to bring it in by informing that they brief themselves within to be able to ‘go out there and express themselves’ .. its not go out there and smash the ball out of the park, or play to win .. its there to ‘express themselves’ .. which is such an endearing feel .. the freedom and the liberty to express themselves .. as if they were restricted from doing so earlier .. so wonderful ..

..and may their tribe grow ..

.. and such is the nature and feel of the Blog here that it has inadvertently become a platform to ‘express oneself’ ..

.. and long may this tribe grow ..

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4844

Jalsa, Mumbai               June 2/3,  2021                Wed/Thu  12:24 AM

Thank you all with immense gratitude for the wishes for Jaya and me on our Wedding Anniversary .. June 3,  1973 .. now 48 years !!

Your wishes and your gracious words have been most moving and filled with love for us .. and we truly appreciate them .. 

For today and now .. ❤️🙏

Amitabh Bachchan 

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DAY 4821

Jalsa, Mumbai                    May 10,  2021                Mon 11:00 PM

 Ashok Deobhakta .. Ef is ill down with CoviD and hospitalised .. our prayers for an early recovery .. from the Ef 

We rally round and work and fight .. and the prayers fall on all the right ears .. and in time with patience the darkness shall give way to the light of the rise of the sun .. 

All the efforts being made by every individual , irrespective of the quantity, is sufficient to drive away the discomfort that we all face each hour  .. 

.. “ a gentle wave of the hand can shake the World “

.. may we all come forward in a display of solidarity and togetherness, to hold each others hand in this trial and win ..

So yesterday the 400 bed care centre at RakabGanj Gurudwara, in Delhi was inaugurated and the relief it shall be able to provide in the hour of need shall be difficult to enumerate. My contribution in that making , gives a sense of a deed that needed to be done, and soon it shall function under the care and guidance of a team of selected medical infrastructure, to bring relief to the extraneous conditions that we are struggling with ..

Also I am happy to state that the 20 ventilators that I had ordered from overseas have started to arrive. The first lot of 10 has landed in Mumbai and are at Customs awaiting clearance. The procurer Agency will deliver them by Wednesday and at least 4 Municipal Hospitals that I had earmarked and the BrihanMumbai Municipal Committee the BMC, shall be given at least 4 of the 6 they desired .. the balance 10 are arriving by the 25th and they too shall be distributed to the other Hospital locations and care centres that I have identified .

The Oxygen Concentrators, another dire need, has also been put on a very fast track through suppliers from the overseas company’s , who have graciously under great pressure of depleting stocks managed to keep some for me .. 

50 of them shall be airlifted on the 15th for Delhi, and are coming from a recognised Company in Poland, and another 150 from different manufacturing agents shall be coming in by the 23rd .. I hope that at least those locations where I have been able to construct care centres shall be able to utilise them ..

The care centre in Juhu that I am contributing to work on, is almost ready and shall be in a position by the 12th to provide medical care for about 50 beds  - requirements such as Oxygen, Doctors and nurses are all in place .. 

meanwhile the food for the poor has ben initiated and 1000 packets of dry food shall be going out to the poor ..

The orphanage that is going to look after the 2 children that I have commissioned to be taken care of is on. The local Govt., has a formal procedure for the adoption process and they have identified the 2 children who have lost their parents to the virus. They will be giving us the names by tomorrow for the Hyderabad orphanage and shall be given free education from the 1st to the 10th class, along with free boarding and lodging. If either of them turn out to excel they shall be considered for higher studies under the same conditions .

I am also very pleased that the Diagnostic Centre that  contributed in the making of the Hospital Care Centre at Bangla Sahib Gurudwara in Delhi is operational and works at the very minimum costs and for some , free. The MRI machine along with other ancillary machines are all set which help in the diagnosis of patients suffering ; particularly to detect the virus in the lungs .. 

Also 3 other detection machine - sonography and on - have been donated by me to the Nanavati Hospital and they are a boon in these times ..

Of course the PPE units and other protective gears are also being supplied to the front line workers to the extent of whatever is within my means .. and if I am able to muster more earnings I shall certainly aim to give more ..

WE FIGHT .. we fight to WIN !!!

.. the words of my Father :

the collective might of coming together for this great cause where I participated and contributed to BREATHE , the title of the event was I am told by the organisers, seen by almost 400 million .. and at the end of the day within hours a sum of almost 25 crore rupees was collected for the cause ..  

the strength and standing of ONE individual can shake mountains .. when we all collect together in this humble platform of our Blog we become a movement that I am so proud of ..

In this battle against this virus , many have contributed and continue to be resolved in more .. the mention in the information circles resounds with the 2 cr that I donated for the care Centre in Delhi for the moment .. but as days go by the figure of my personal contribution and donation shall be about 15 crore rupees .. 

Of course such figures are beyond my means , but I work and labour and resolve to dig into my earnings for those that need it most and with the kindness of the Almighty have been able to give this amount .. 

.. in time , if I am able to harness some more of my personal funds I shall not hesitate to contribute more ..

… AND there are those colleagues and friends that have run into difficult times financially .. they too have been given funds to tide over some of the trouble they find themselves in .. 

This is not trumpeting my ‘wares’ .. 

.. if at all it can be a motivation for many others to come forward and donate , the amount of misery that one hears and sees could be greatly reduced .. 

.. they  say give and ye shall receive   .. 

I shall give to give ; not with the intent of a receive .. when the intent to receive is the think behind the give .. you are not in the purity of heart and mind .. 

Father always said “ give and forget .. do not give and wait for receive .. know that it shall never come back .. if it does , good ; if it does not , even better .. because then it was not meant for you in the first place .. “

man ka ho to achcha .. na ho to zyaada achcha  !

Amitabh Bachchan

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DAY 4802

Jalsa, Mumbai                   Apr 21,  2021                 Wed 1:03 PM

To all the Ef that have been connecting here and elsewhere , my apologies for not responding where desired .. the situation demands prayer .. not communication .. so remained quiet .. but my gratitude for all the wishes for Abhishek , his film Big Bull, his wedding Anniversary .. and wishes on this auspicious day .. Had sung PASAYDAN the prayer offering in Marathi sometime back .. it has been released today on this auspicious day .. officially .. will try and put it up exclusively for our Ef here on this Blog platform ..

The translate of the Shlok is with the video, in English .. it has been officially released by Times Music today .. 

The history of PASAYDAN as gathered by some known friends and purists is that during the 17th or 18th Century, a Saint , Dyaneshwar translated the Gita because the Sanskrit of the Gita was too difficult for the common man to understand .. because he was from Maharashtra, his translation is in Marathi, the language of the State  ..

The offering, as it is often referred to, is a concise of almost 9000 stanzas , and has a great bearing in all Maharashtrian homes .. traditionally each home has a link with it .. from generation to generation ..

PASAYDAN , has been sung by several prominent names and undoubtedly, the version by the legendary, iconic, angelic voice of  Bharat Ratn Lata Mangeshkar ji is beyond compare  .. 

This version that you will hear was designed by Suresh Wadhkar , the famous singer and he put it up to me to render it .. 

I am no singer and the designs and the renditions of the iconic voiced singers can never be matched by me .. but since I was asked to do it .. I tried .. 

This version has been done with the immense help and patience of my music companions - Rohan and Vinayak , in my apology of a Studio, named by RoVin , SAPTASWAR .. the seven notes , in its translate .. 

… more in life is wrought by prayer than any other .. 

.. we pray for peace and well being .. we pray for the suffering .. we pray that all be safe and protected ..

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

… and Shweta puts up this very pertinent quote for the Family .. which I reproduce ..

Amitabh Bachchan

Birthday Ef - Parul Jain .. Thursday, April 22 .. love and birthday greetings .. form the Ef ..

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