Amitabh Bachchan, who recently turned 81, has revealed that prior to pursuing acting, he had a desire to join the Indian Air Force. However, on a recent episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 15, Bachchan shared with a contestant that his application to join the Air Force was rejected because his “legs were too long.”
When Bachchan asked contestant Jeetendra Kumar if he always wanted to be an accountant, Jeetendra replied, “No, I actually wanted to go into the Air Force. I also went to take many exams for NDA. A friend of mine told me that even though you had taken the exam for the Air Force, is it true?”
Then the megastar went on to say, “When I completed my schooling, I didn’t know what to do. I used to stay in Delhi with my family, and a major general from the Army used to stay nearby. He once came to our place and asked my father to send me and told him that I would become a big officer in the Army, but I wanted to go into the Air Force but nothing happened.”
Revealing the real reason behind his rejection from the Indian Air Force, he added, “When I went for the interview, they rejected me saying that my legs were too long. I cannot be eligible for the Air Force.”
The conversations between the contestants and Big B often make news. Recently, one such clip has gone viral on the internet, and it is related to Amitabh Bachchan’s college days. A few years ago, Big B had said in an interview that he used to bunk classes after arranging for proxy attendance; a contestant in the show’s ongoing 15th season asked him about it. When contestant Mousumee Paul got the chance to sit on the hot seat opposite Amitabh Bachchan, she reminded the actor about his previous statement in an interview and asked him whether it was in school or college. Amitabh replied by saying that since he studied in a boarding school, it was not possible for him to carry out any mischievous acts in school. He said that he used to bunk classes in college.
On the work front, his film Ganpath has hit the theatres today.
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