Saturday, May 11, 2024

Bachchan says sorry to the young poet for using her poem without credit





To err is human! And same is the case with Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan. A few days before, Amitabh Bachchan, who remains active on Twitter, shared few lines of poems with his picture on his account but later he was found himself being accused of plagiarism as he missed out on sharing the name of the poet

A Twitter user named Tisha Aggarwal tagged senior Bachchan and said the poem was originally written by her and the least he could do is give due credit to her.

Responding to the lady, Amitabh Bachchan profusely apologizes to her. He not only made necessary corrections but also clarified that it wasn’t his intention to not credit her and he had simply posted the poem forwarded by someone else.


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