Amitabh Bachchan often speaks fondly about his father, legedary poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan. The superstar recites his poems on various occasions and even shares his memories of him on his blog. One such time was back in June 2008, when Amitabh revealed he was angry and frustrated and marched into his father’s study to raise objection towards being born.
As reported by The Indian Express, Amitabh said in his blog that he was getting accustomed to his newly found freedom after his boarding school and was exposed to the ‘complex’ world in college. “From being told what to do, you are now telling what should be done. Almost overnight you become the saviors of the world and of humanity with your idealistic and non idealistic utterances,” Big B wrote in the blog post.
Frustrated with the new pressures of life, Amitabh couldn’t stop himself from questioning his father. “Angered, frustrated, strengthened and armed with unreasonable thought, I walked into my father’s study one evening and for the first time in my life, with choked emotion, raised my voice at him and screamed – Why did you give birth to me? Aapne humein paida kyun kiya?” Amitabh recalled.
“My father, immersed as he always was in his writing, looked up at me with some initial surprise and then settled down to a more understanding posture and remained so for almost eternity. No one spoke. Not him. Not me. Not a sound,” the Kalki 2898 AD star shared, adding that the night which followed was ‘uncomfortable’ for him.
Next day, Amitabh revealed, his father came up to him and handed him a piece of paper. The paper featured a poem with the title — Nayi Leek. The poem was the answer to Amitabh’s question. He shared a picture of the poem on the blog along with the translation.
“My son asks me – Why did you give birth to us? And I do not possess an answer to this. That even my father did not ask me before giving birth to me. Nor my father asked his father before producing him. Nor my grandfather did ask his father before bringing him,” translated the poem.
“Why don’t you make a new beginning, a new thinking, ask your sons before giving birth to them,” he wrote. Harivansh Rai Bachchan concluded the poem by suggesting, “Why don’t you make a new beginning, a new thinking, ask your sons before giving birth to them.”
Referring to his father’s words, Amitabh urged fans to not have excuses in life and not find anyone to blame. “There are no excuses in life and no blame. Every morning is a fresh challenge. Either you learn to pick up the gauntlet and fight or learn to surrender to it. So long as there is life, there is struggle!” he wrote in his blog.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan passed away in 2003, at the age of 95.
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