The price of fame in Bollywood: Fans paint your portrait in blood.
Most celebrities have to cope with the odd overzealous fan letter, but Amitabh Bachchan, India’s most famous Bollywood actor, gets his portrait drawn in blood. “I’ve received some very frightening ones,” he says. “I tell them to make it a miniature because they are losing a lot of blood. But how do you stop them?”
When Bachchan falls ill, millions of Indians do penance. In 1982 he injured himself in a stunt scene and fell into a coma. “Some 80-year-old women said they ate only one meal a day and would sleep on the ground, praying for my recovery,” he says. “One chap who lived 400km from Mumbai ran backwards from his village to the city and then backwards home again, a total of 800km.”
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