Mumbai,
(ANI):
In
his
latest
blog,
cine
icon
amitabh
bachchan
has
criticised
a
prominent
tabloid
for
not
doing
justice
to
an
interview
it
took
with
him
in
the
first
week
of
his
67th
birthday.
According
to
Bachchan,
the
Executive
Editor
of
the
Bombay
tabloid
Mid-Day,
Abhijit
Majumder
had
sought
an
interview
with
the
actor
to
mark
his
birthday,
his
40
years
in
Bollywood,
and
the
launch
of
Bigg
Boss
3.
Bachchan,
says
he
was
initially
willing
to
do
an
interview
only
by
e-mail,
but
relented
to
give
a
face-to-face
interview.
The
interview
was
published
and,
Bachchan
complains
on
his
blog
that
"it
did
not
do
justice
to
the
responses
I
had
given".
What
was
surprising,
says
Bachchan,
is
that
a
video
clip
of
the
interview
appeared
on
Mid-Day's
website.
He
writes:
"I
had
never
expected
either
the
paper
or
any
one
else
to
have
posted
something
which
I
would
be
unaware
of.
[And]
now
realize
why
Mr.
Majumdar
wanted
a
personal
meeting.
He
had
placed
a
small
"sting" camera
on
the
table
in
front
of
me,
without
informing
me
that
the
interview
was
being
video
taped
as
well.
He
never
told
me
that
they
had
a
video
net
facility
in
operation
and
that
the
recorded
interview
would
find
a
place
there."
Bachchan
accuses
the
editor
of
dishonesty
and
says
the
reason
he
had
sought
a
one-on-one
interview
was
with
the
"malafide
intent
of
recording
the
interview
to
be
used
as
a
live
input
on
a
video
electronic
facility
medium
that
your
paper
runs." Majumder
has
hit
back
in
the
paper,
printing
a
photograph
of
the
actor
sitting
comfortably
in
front
of
the
"sting"
camera,
and
charging
the
actor
of
introducing
a
new
word
into
journalism:
a
"sting
of
one's
own
legitimate
interview".
Majumder
says
he
had
mentioned
to
Bachchan
in
the
presence
of
the
paper's
photographer
and
two
unknown
gentlemen
who
also
seemed
to
be
videotaping
it,
that
the
interview
would
be
recorded
on
audio
and
video;
that
he
had
asked
the
actor's
secretary
if
he
could
bring
along
a
photographer
and
somebody
to
video-record
the
interview.
"Either
you
are
lying
or
I
am.
I
would
like
to
believe
it
is
neither;
it's
just
your
memory
playing
tricks
at
twilight,"
Majumder
said.