Amitabh Bachchan | Photo Credit: Dominic Charriau
After about three weeks of cryptic, vacant positions, Amitabh Bachchan has finally broken his silence on social media. Sunday morning, Bollywood icon recently addressed Operation vermilion With a emotional Hindi post on X (East Twitter), tribute to the Indian Army and the victims of the Pahgam terror attack on 22 April.
Megastar’s post expanded the brutal killing of 26 civilians including tourists and Nepali National by terrorists in Kashmir. Bachchan recalled the tragedy through the eyes of an unhappy woman who saw the hanging of her husband. “Don’t kill my husband,” he begged, only with cruelty. The attacker asked him to live and “tell the world.”
The 82 -year -old Bachchan connected this moment to a line with the poem of his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan, which he quoted in Hindi. “I take the ashes of the funeral pyre in my hands, yet the world asks me for sindoor,” he wrote. “And ‘.’ Gave him vermilion !!!
He ended with a salute: “Jai Hind. Jai Hind’s army. You will never stop; you will ever turn back; you will never bend … the way of fire!”
This was Bachchan’s first concrete post since 22 April. His former cryptic post – black images with numeric caption – Left fans were surprised.
His message joined a wave of voices from the film industry, which included Rajinikanth, Kamal Hasan, Aamir Khan, and more, who condemned the Pahalgam attack and praised India’s predecessor attacks in nine terrorist camps in Pakistan-Kabj Kashmir on 7 May.
Before Bachchan’s post on Saturday, India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire in all fronts, after high-level military talks.
Published – May 11, 2025 10:52 am IST
