08-09-2004, 08:55 PM
Let hostages return home, pleads Big B
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Incidentally, last year, Mid-Day correspondent S Hussain Zaidi was also held captive by a top Iraqi don and eventually released only after he gave a written promise that he 'would fix up a meeting with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan on their Mumbai trip'.
Meanwhile, Bachchan said he had no idea of his hypnotic sway in Iraq. "I was absolutely unaware of this popularity."
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Incidentally, last year, Mid-Day correspondent S Hussain Zaidi was also held captive by a top Iraqi don and eventually released only after he gave a written promise that he 'would fix up a meeting with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan on their Mumbai trip'.
Meanwhile, Bachchan said he had no idea of his hypnotic sway in Iraq. "I was absolutely unaware of this popularity."
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