Amitabh Bachchan recalled the era and revealed that his father during a time when handwritten letters were popular, the renowned writer-poet and philosopher Harivansh Rai Bachchan, used to reply to all of the fan letters he received. The actor also expressed the hope that someday one of the KBC contestants would let him know that they had some of his father's handwritten letters, at which point he would urge the contestant to give them to him.
"My dad used to send out a tone of letters to his friends and admirers. He used to write between 50 and 100 letters per day, and he used to reply to each and every letter individually. Small postcards were used for his writing, which he would then properly fold and post by himself. On the most recent episode of KBC 14, Amitabh said, "When I used to ask him why he is going back to the post office, he would say, "I am going to see if the card was sent or not."
"I am sure that someone in the audience would show up on the show and tell me that see, I have your dad's letter that he wrote for me himself," he continued. I'll ask him to give me however many he has, and I'll keep them in my home. Obviously, before taking it, I would give them a copy. He received a lot of responses via letters, and he also published those letters as a book.
Amitabh also mentioned how much he "used to respect" postmen. "The postman was a hero in our time because he or she served as our sole means of communication. He used to only deliver letters to our homes. Amitabh mentioned handwritten letters when a contestant named Jyotirmayee revealed that she works as an Assistant Superintendent of Post and that her husband is also an Assistant Superintendent of the Post Office. We used to respect them a lot and thought of them as proprietary.
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