I would like to be a journalist: Big B

While promoting his film about Indian media in New Delhi, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan said he would like to be a journalist, if not an actor. “I would like to be a journalist. In fact in my interviews that I had given in the 1970s, I mentioned during most of them that I want to become a journalist in my next life,” Amitabh told reporters on Wednesday while promoting his upcoming film Rann with Ram Gopal Varma . The movie is about Indian media and how it’s manipulated. The 66-year-old star who has been castigating the media and journalists on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com, said he felt a journalist’s job was a difficult one. “I say this because I feel that it is a very difficult task since sometimes your conscience doesn’t match with reality and that’s where you want to go home and tear yourself apart and take a decision,” he added.

Meanwhile, Ram Gopal Varma, true to his nature, raked up a controversy at the press meet by playing the film’s theme song which seemed to tinker with the National Anthem. "Jana gana mana rann hai. Is rann mein zakhmi hua hai Bahrat ka bhaagya vidhaata?" goes the lyric of the film’s title track. The director in his own words has included the lines of the national anthem to describe the "bad situation" of the present day India. Answering questions about his decision to reinterpret the national anthem, Varma said that his attempt should not be termed as unpatriotic. “I have not tinkered with the anthem or treated it in a disrespectful manner. The song is just a medium to express the angst against the current situation in the country. Please do not try to create a controversy where there is none,” Varma told the reporters. Even Mr. Bachchan, who plays the head of a 24-hour news channel in the film, defended Varma’s decision, saying, “I trust the director’s decision and I am sure that he has taken adequate caution before going ahead with the song.” Besides Big B, the movie also stars Ritesh Deshmukh and Paresh Rawal .

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