Today is Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s birthday.
November 27 is the birth anniversary of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, father of famous poet and megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Harivansh Rai Bachchan was born in 1907 in Babu Patti village of Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh. His father was Lala Pratap Narayan Srivastava and his mother Surasati Devi. Today, Amitabh Bachchan is considered the megastar of Hindi cinema, but his father also had a big name in the world of literature. Today, on the occasion of Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s birthday, let us tell you some interesting stories related to him.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s childhood
Harivansh Rai Bachchan was born in Babu Patti, a village in Pratapgarh district of UP. Before him, his mother had given birth to two more children, but they died as soon as they were born. Harivansh Rai Bachchan was Srivastava by birth but later he started using his poetic name Bachchan as his surname and later Amitabh also bore the same surname as his father. Actually, Amitabh Bachchan’s real name was Inquilab Srivastava, but later his father changed his name and when Amitabh entered Bollywood, he adopted his father’s poetic surname as his identity.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan considered his son Amitabh to be the reincarnation of his father.
Recently, Aamir Khan had participated in Amitabh Bachchan’s show Kaun Banega Crorepati with his son Junaid. During this time, he had shared an anecdote related to Big B’s father i.e. Harivansh Rai Bachchan. He said that on the day Amitabh Bachchan was to be born, Harivansh Rai Bachchan told his wife that a son was going to be born in their house and that he would be the reincarnation of his father Pratap Narayan Srivastava.
Aamir Khan had revealed this
Aamir Khan asked Amitabh during this time, ‘Do you remember the day you were born?’ Hearing this, Amitabh was a little shocked at first, then Aamir told him, “Amit ji’s father has written about the incidents that happened on his birthday.” After this, Aamir reads an excerpt from Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s biography. It was written on it: ‘When Teji woke me up and said I was having labor pains, it was a Brahma Muhurta. When he woke me up, I was having a vivid dream and it impressed me so much that I couldn’t help but quickly share it. Still half asleep I told him: ‘Teji, you are going to have a son and my father’s soul is coming in his form.’
How did Harivansh Rai Bachchan marry Teji Suri?
During KBC itself, Big B also mentioned his parents’ love story and said that this was not the first but the second marriage of Harivansh Rai Bachchan. His first wife died, after which he married her mother Teji Bachchan.
Big B had narrated the story of the first meeting of mother and father.
Referring to his parents’ first meeting, Big B had said, ‘A friend of Babuji lived in Bareilly, he called Babuji to meet him. Babuji went to meet him. During dinner, Babuji’s friend asked him to recite a poem. But, before my father could start reciting the poem, his friend asked his wife to call my mother (Teji Bachchan). It was there that Babuji had his first meeting with our mother. After my mother’s arrival, Babuji began reciting the poem “What should I do with sympathy?” and my mother started crying after hearing this poem. Dad’s friend left Mom and Dad alone in the room and went out himself.
Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan married in 1941.
‘After a while, my father’s friend came with a rosary and asked him to make him use it. Just that day, my father had decided that he would now spend his entire life with our mother. Harivansh Rai Bachchan married Teji Bachchan in 1941. From this marriage, they both had two sons, who were named Amitabh and Ajitabh Bachchan.
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