On 1 April (2013) the Big B’s fans woke to the startling confession on his blog that he would henceforth seize to write the blog, thereby ostensibly drawing a curtain on his 5-year association with his “extended family”, the regular readers of his blog. Now it is revealed by the Big B that the entire ‘adieu-blog’ idea was an elaborate prank. Says the Big B, “Yes, it was an April Fool’s joke.” Apparently it was Abhishek Bachchan’s idea to pull this startling prank However, the Big B informs me that the prank was entirely his own idea.

Amitabh Bachchan, who co-starred with the late Rajesh Khanna in Anand and Namak Haraam, has written a moving tribute to the departed star on his blog: A lowdown: “I first saw him in a film magazine, perhaps Filmfare. He was the winner of the Filmfare-Madhuri Talent Contest, a contest that I had applied to in the coming year and been rejected. His film 'Aradhana' was my next meeting with him, at the Rivoli Theatre in Connaught Place in New Delhi, which my Mother took me along to see. The packed audience and their reactions to this young handsome man was impermeable.”