Amitabh Bachchan desires to play Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan, who has been part of the film industry for umpteen years, aspires to play a character that would be a very different proposition for him to enact and that is of his late father Harivansh Rai Bachchan. He expressed his view in an open question-and-answer session at the Penguin Annual Lecture 2013 in the capital recently. When an enthusiastic fan asked the senior Bachchan to pick one of his beloved characters that he'd like to play in a film, the Baghban actor said that it would be of his late father. "It's a tough call, but I want to try," he quipped. It may be recalled that Bachchan has often been sharing his father moments and stories. In the meet, in question, moderated by Rajdeep Sardesai, he talked about some of his conversations with his father in his childhood, during his youth and of those that he himself shared with his father during his last days in 2003. In a lighter vein, Bachchan said that his father once told him he was his greatest poetry. “But I do not know whether I am a free verse or a couplet, a chaupai or a shloka," he wondered. Here it may be noted that Harivansh Rai, who died in 2003, is credited with works like Madhushala, Madhukalash, Madhubala and Agneepath.