An Indian-American family based in New Jersey has installed a life-size statue of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan in their home.
It was reported that around 600 people gathered outside the home of Rinku and Gobi Seth as prominent community leader Albert Gassani officially unveiled the statue amidst dancing by Bachchan’s fan club.
This life-size statue showing Bachchan seated in the pose of his popular TV show “Kaun Banega Crorepati” was specially designed and manufactured in Rajasthan. The statute was then shipped to the United States, costing Seth more than US$75,000 for the entire project.
Seth told PTI:
“Installing a statue in the United States involves a lot of challenges, and this one was more difficult than others.”
Gopi Seth, who is an Internet security engineer and migrated to the United States from Dahod in eastern Gujarat in 1990, told PTI that Amitabh is no less than a god. He added:
“The most important thing in him inspires me is not only his virgin life, but also real life … how he conducts himself in public, how he conveys and conveys … everything you know. He is very humble. His fans take care of him. He is not like many other stars That is why I thought I should have his place outside my house.”
Seth, who met Bachchan in 1991, has also been running www.BigBEFamily.com, a website for “Big B Extended Family”, for the past three decades.
The statue is in Edison which is popularly called Little India for being home to the Indian-origin population. According to Seth, the 79-year-old Bollywood superstar is aware of the statue.
