Gandhis, Bachchans: A tale of two families

Mumbai | Monday | 24th September, 2018

Summary:

The poster features AICC chief, his father the late, and Amitabh Bachchan, with a tagline ‘Aa ab laut chalen’. Speaking to Society magazine in July 1983, the poet said: “We are close to the Gandhi family, but our relationship is personal and not political. So close were the families that Sonia’s earliest memories of India are linked with the Bachchans. As Amitabh himself once said, the younger members of the two families could not understand the true nature of the ties that bound them. Amit and Bunty [Ajitabh] are my brothers.”Sometime between 1996 and 1998, when Bachchan’s ABCL Corporation was in financial trouble, relations between the families became strained..