Date:18/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/18/stories/2008051860121000.htm

National

I want to end this ugliness: Bachchan

Mumbai: Making the first move to put an end to the much-publicised “strained” relationship with Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has said he wished to apologise if there had been a lapse or error on his part.

“It is hurtful and unwanted and I wish to bring with all sincerity a final end to this much imagined ugliness,” Mr. Bachchan wrote on his blog. “Despite numerous clarifications and denials from both Shah Rukh and myself through the electronic and the print medium, there seems to be no letting up,” Mr. Bachchan lamented.

Clarifying his comments about television shows, Mr. Bachchan said he had never attempted to show SRK in a poor light. “I merely transferred talks I had with TV heads purely to seek opinion and not glory. What appeared was incorrect and loads of rubbish.” Mr. Bachchan said he would apologise to Mr. Khan a hundred times if there was any iota of doubt in his mind about his own conduct and behaviour. — PTI