La Nuit Bengali: Amitabh Bachchan Posts Pics From Bolpur, Shantiniketan

This image was posted on Amitabh Bachchan's blog.

New Delhi: Work has taken actor Amitabh Bachchan to Kolkata twice this year, first to film Piku and now to make director Ribhu Dasgupta's Te3n. Kolkata, where Mr Bachchan lived and worked before moving to Mumbai to become an actor, is his stamping ground. This time, however, Mr Bachchan has also been shooting in the twin towns of Bolpur and Shantiniketan, which he's never visited before.

On his blog, Mr Bachchan posted several pictures of himself shooting in Bolpur and wrote: "So, yes the day's work in the forests that surround the Bolpur region of West Bengal, somewhat north of Kolkata, breathing distance from literary divinity that finds abode in the quietude of Shantiniketan, is over. And so is the exciting drive back to base 150 odd kilometers away - excellent roads, clean and neat, hospitable wayside inns and a million trucks at any given time, decorated in the aestheticism of each owner, individualised in the choice of the coloured lights that adorn every protrusion in the body of the metallic monolith."

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

Image courtesy: Amitabh Bachchan

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan also visited Rabindranath Tagore's residence in Shantiniketan, the university town that he founded. "The abode of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. Never imagined I would visit it some day. Honour and pride in being there," he wrote on Facebook.

Image courtesy: Amitabh Bachchan

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

Mr Bachchan also posted a photo of the car Tagore used to own, a Hummer.

Image courtesy: Amitabh Bachchan

It wasn't just the sense of history or the beauty of the jungle that left the actor impressed. He had high praise for the Kolkata police, writing: "A most efficient police force that monitors your ride at every step, guiding, clearing and paving your journey by some incredible road management, which would be a nightmare in any other Western developed world."

Amitabh Bachchan also posted pictures of himself with his female security detail: "I try to show my sense of equality by giving preference to the contingent of female commandos that have turned up on security duty and lie in the background with apprehension. I call them up in front and mingled with them, rid them of their awkwardness, their shy nature or was it disciplined training of their uniform? Whatever - they deserved it and they must be given equal place, equal presence and equal 'selfies,' the most imaginative piece of conversation ever in the history of human speech and sound."

Image courtesy: Amitabh Bachchan

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

This image was posted on Twitter by Amitabh Bachchan

Te3n, which also stars Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, will release next year. Amitabh Bachchan was last seen in Piku and has Wazir coming up in January. (Also Read: Amitabh Bachchan's 'Progress' From Piku to Te3N in Kolkata)