Just a week before the music maestro, Pandit Ravi Shankar’s
death, Amitabh Bachchan received the first ever and of course the last phone
call from him. Big B was left bewildered after the call.
Mentioning the happening on his blog srbachchan.com, He posted,
“A strange feeling crawls within me. Just last week his wife Sukanyaji had sent
a message to me on my mobile, while I transited from Marrakech ,
Morocco Florence
in Italy . It
was the first time ever that I had received a message from her.”
“She had requested a time when she could call back as Ravi
Shankarji had wanted to talk to me. He was keeping unwell she had said and was
to undergo a surgery on Thursday.
“Due to the time difference, I was unable to connect with
her immediately and it was only the next day when I called back that she spoke
most endearingly and put me on to the great maestro! I was speaking to Pandit
Ravi Shankar for the very first time ever on the phone,” he tweeted.
The 70-year-actor tells, there was a lot of warmth in Ravi
Shankar’s voice, while he spoke to Amitabh Bachchan. The late music maestro
also appreciated Big B’s work.
“We knew each other, there were strong and long family
relationships, a few casual meetings, but nothing more. Why was he wanting to
speak to me now? I was puzzled. But he came on the line, spoke with great
warmth, on seeing me on the television often, of my films and my fans in the
house, informed me that he was going in for a surgery – I had wished him well
and after the phone call was over, sat for long, wondering how what had transpired
had actually happened,” he added.
Amitabh Bachchan added, “An entire life, an era, a most
incredible period in the history of classical music in India
has come to an end”.
Pandit Ravi Shankar, aged 92, passed away on Tuesday in the US .
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