Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan had to wait for 46 years before

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan had to wait for 46 years before he could get the autograph of his idol, Dilip Kumar.

In his latest blog entry, Bachchan who called Dilip Kumar as an institution in himself talks about how he as a child had unsuccessfully attempted to get an autograph from his superstar and had to wait for the premiere of his film Black to finally get hold of one.

"I remember the first time I ever saw him in 1960. I had come to Bombay (Mumbai) as a visitor with my parents...our hosts had taken us out to visit some of the awe inspiring sights and locations of this great city...It was a prominent restaurant, in now what is commonly referred to as South Bombay, where Dilip Kumar, the Dilip Kumar, walked in," the actor wrote in his blog.

Urged by the elders and eager to go up and greet him and to ask him to oblige them with an autograph, Bachchan ran out of the restaurant to a nearby stationary store to buy an autograph book.

"Out of breath with excitement and apprehension, I walked back to the legend and softly put up my request. Poised statue like, hand extended with the book, I repeated my quivering words to him. He remained unmoved. Either to me or to the book."

"In a short while, he turned and left. I followed his departure, book in hand and a little embarrassed and self conscious and disappointed, returned to my seat, consoled by the elders with me not to take it personally. He may not have noticed you, or perhaps he was too busy with what was transpiring between him and his friends. I understood with some trepidation. End of meeting with Dilip Kumar," the actor cum keen blogger said.

Bachchan also recalled the first film that they did together and how he felt as an actor seeing the legend before him. "Time passed. I moved into the fascinating world of cinema with opportunities and failures and some successes, until one day Salim-Javed the great writing duo conceptualized Shakti the film by Ramesh Sippy and cast Dilip Saheb and me in it.

"It was an incredible moment of unbelievable proportions. This idol of mine, this huge and larger than life figure who had loomed in my fantasies, now to be standing next to him was unimaginable," he wrote.

The actor says years later when Dilip Kumar's film Ganga Jamuna, which Bachchan says he must have seen a million times, failed to win Femina Best actor Award for his idol, he had "lived in shock and extreme surprise."

"Many moons thereafter, when awards became a part of our existence too and when their denial for deserving performances became a disappointment, I would often take great solace by remembering the Ganga Jamuna incident and console myself by saying - If they didn't give it to Dilip Saheb...hum kis khet ki mooli hain!", he said.

Bachchan writes that he says this to "colleagues when they despair of non recognition...I say this to Abhishek often." Hope you liked this article, Now :