The popularity of Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan is worldwide. People are ready to wait for hours to catch a glimpse of him. But now a glimpse of Amitabh Bachchan’s popularity has been seen in America. Actually, an Indian American family living in Edison City, New Jersey has installed a statue of Amitabh Bachchan at their home. During this, a grand celebration was also organized, in which leader Albert Jasani also participated.
Amitabh Bachchan’s Statue
The event was organized by a fan club of Indian superstars in Edison. Meanwhile, Rinku and Gopi Seth, who lived here, installed a statue of Amitabh Bachchan outside their house. About 600 people gathered on the occasion, often called Little India. Everyone had a lot of fun on this occasion. People were seen bursting crackers and dancing. The actor’s statue was kept inside a large glass box. In this statue, Amitabh Bachchan is sitting in the mode of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. The statue was designed in Rajasthan and cost more than USD 75,000, or about Rs 60 lakh.
Amitabh Bachchan
Internet security engineer Gopi said, ‘Amitabh Bachchan is no less than a god to me and my wife. What inspires me the most about him is his professional life as well as personal life. He is a down to earth person and he also takes great care of his fans. He is not like other stars so I thought I should keep his statue outside my house’.
Amitabh Bachchan
According to Gopi Seth, Amitabh Bachchan knows about the statue and when Big B came to know about this statue, he told Gopi Seth that he does not deserve this honor. Seth said that he met his god (Big B) for the first time in 1991 at a Navratri function in New Jersey. Since then he is his big fan. Gopi Seth has been running the ‘Big B Extended Family’ website www.BigBEFamily.com for the last three decades. To this, he said that he was organizing his fans in the US and globally which later turned into a website.