Bachchan did his bit by giving lifts in his car to a few women, to help them escape the driving rains that have jammed life in Mumbai for the last two days.
The road outside the actor's Juhu bungalow, Prateeksha, was waist-deep in water, and the reception area was flooded too. When the actor decided to take a ride in his SUV to his second home, Jalsa (also in Juhu), he found the women wading through the water-logged road.
"I muster up courage and help and pull out the SUV... that's the only one that shall go through in all this mess, and float out into the streets now jammed with people wading through and the cars blocking any movement.
"I open the door, well just about, to assist a few young ladies in distress who were beginning to lose their composure, and give them a ride towards Jalsa. Everywhere there is just chaos," Amitabh said in a recent entry posted on his blog, www.bigb.bigadda.com.
At his Jalsa residentce, water had leaked into the bedrooms. "At Jalsa, the water in the bedrooms has leaked through despite the tarpaulin protection monsoon covers. I tell them (workers) to put towels, swabs, water resistant solutions, anything," he wrote.
The situation became so chaotic that the actor had to ask son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai, who are in Singapore along with politician Amar Singh, to remain there for a while.
"I quickly inform them of the deluge warning them not to come in today as scheduled. I put all the mobiles on charge and the walkie talkies. Fill up water in buckets from the rain outside and store it just in case the power goes and the pumps get disconnected. And wait, and wait and wait...," Bachchan wrote.
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