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Serious thoughts cross my mind as I listen to some of the most devout admirers of Dr. Amitabh Bachchan who have stood by him through thick and thin during all the thirty-six years and more that he has been around and ruling supreme.

These �Bhakts� of the Bachchan are anxious about some roles Bachchan has played in some films in the past and two films which he has agreed to play now, one complete and one in the making, �Nishabd� and �Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay�. They very strongly feel that Bachchan should not have agreed to play the philanderer. The ageing man with a strong weakness for women in �Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna�. They genuinely and sincerely feel that the role did not suit his age and certainly not the grace, the dignity and the status which he has earned for himself. Now they are upset and are wondering why their icon is playing the elderly man madly in love with a nymphet in Ram Gopal Varma�s �Nishabd� and shocked with his decision to play Gabbar Singh in �Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay� which RGV time and again claims to be his tribute to Ramesh Sippy�s all-time classic, �Sholay�. Some of them refuse to see their icon trying his time-tested talent in playing a variety of roles to prove his caliber as a complete actor. Some others go to the unimaginable extent of blaming Ram Gopal Varma for slowly but certainly damaging the image of the greatest icon of all times. 

One woman in her early fifties, a school teacher, even grows unreasonable and illogical when she blames Varma for carrying on �a one-man wicked crusade� to destroy the man of a million dreams, first with �Sarkar� and now with �Nishabd� and �Ram Gopal Ke Sholay�. She says �Ramuji� was playing with the innocent ambition of �the actor among all actors�. Even as Dr. Bachchan is completing his shooting as Gabbar Singh and waiting for the release of �Nishabd�, I give you some of their views and they are not views coming from the illiterate of the much-under-rated �janata�. Besides the school teacher, I have two doctors, a house wife and a twenty-two year old young woman doing her final year in law. Listen to them, they have a voice and they want their voice to be heard. 

Dr. Nachar is a practicing family doctor in Ghatkopar. He is so crazy about �Bachchanji� as he calls him that he has his dispensary plastered with hundreds of photographs of �Bachchanji�. The doctor sometimes prescribes an Amitabh Bachchan film to his patients and buys tickets for those who cannot afford to. Says Dr. Nachar, �I have never dared to question Bachchanji whom I consider to be an avatar of God. But some of his recent roles are giving me sleepless nights. Where was the need for him to play Sam in �KANK� and now as if that was not enough he has fallen into the wild trap of Ram Gopal Varma by agreeing to play Gabbar Singh and the old man in love with a girl less than one-fourth of his age in �Nishabd� which I am told is based on �Lolita� which is a very dirty book which I have read. I have always told my patients that �Bachchanji� is the modern day �Mahapurush�. What will i tell them now?"