Well-known cricket commentator and sports aficionado Harsha
Bhogle was seemingly ousted from his favorite job after a tweet from Amitabh Bachchan
caught everyone's eye. During a match last year, Big B had posted that the
commentators need to speak more about our players and less about others. MS
Dhoni had shared Big B's tweet, which eventually led to Harsha's exit.
Speaking about this Harsha told, "We are different
people in different situations. I actually wrote to Mr Bachchan. I sent him a
DM saying how for the past 40 years I have admired him. When I was in
college in Hyderabad, and if his film was releasing on Friday, a friend of mine
would bunk class on Monday to get tickets for the Saturday show. I also admired
him for the dignity with which he carried himself. And I said in the message to
him that given a chance, I will be happy to come and explain things to him. Mr
Bachchan replied with a long and polite message."
He further added, "What I did explain him was that
on the Hindi telecast, we were very India-centric, though not biased, because
the telecast was going only to this market. But we couldn't do that with the
English telecast, as it was going to various countries. In the past, Indian
listeners would get angry when foreign commentators did not speak enough about
the Indian team."
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