Amitabh Bachchan: 'It would be wonderful to go back to theatre'

Amitabh Bachchan has said that he would love to return to the theatre as an actor.
The 70-year-old recalled his experiences of being on stage after watching a play at the Prithvi Theatre.
Writing on his blog, he said: "It would be wonderful to get back to it, but now it is frightening to get up there... a controlled environment is suitable to us today.
"We can make countless mistakes not so on the platform of the stage... not so also the immediate reaction of the audience, not so also the immediate reaction and applause of the people sitting in front of you. That attraction is something only those that experience it can say."
The star described acting on stage as the most challenging area of the performing arts.
"The stage is the most trying and difficult of all performing arts, a wonderful place to learn to get initiated of what may follow... some of the greats have migrated from the stage to greatness of their own elsewhere, but have never forgotten the days of the smell of the wood work," he wrote.
The veteran actor recently said he was keen to take on new challenges as an actor.

Bachchan is said to be starring in a TV soap for Sony TV directed by Anurag Kashyap.

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