Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has written a piece on the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. In that, he Amitabh wrote about the ‘dark night’ when terrorists attacked Mumbai landmarks.

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He also wrote about how the Indian government did not ‘give in to the temptation of military retaliation against Pakistan’ after the attack and exercised restraint. 

In the piece, published in The Indian Express, Amitabh wrote about the impact of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli’s hug for Pakistan cricketer Mohammad Rizwan during the recent T20 world cup.

“For, the stories we tell can often become larger than us, and they can skip lightly across borders, sometimes riding on cricket, sometimes through film. Sometimes they nestle in the warmth of the hug that went viral, that India’s captain Virat Kohli gave to Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam, after the men in green defeated the men in blue in the first game of the T20 World Cup that concluded in Dubai recently,” he wrote.

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Amitabh also mentioned the power of films, including Salman Khan’s Bajrangi Bhaijaan.

“Sometimes they revel in the smashing box office success, in India and also in Pakistan, of the 2015 Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan, a cross-border tale about empathy and compassion, an Indian man’s struggle to reunite a Pakistani child with her family.”

The Salman Khan starrer film was about a man  who risks his life to take a Pakistani child back to her homeland from India. 

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Dia Mirza reacted to Amitabh’s piece and wrote, “Remembering. A truly wonderful piece by @SrBachchan ‘freedom from fear means that we are more at ease with our neighbours, and also with ourselves.’”