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Heard about now you "squashed" my one on one interview with you for the Amul India show.

Initially, I was amused that you ran into your home at 11:30 pm, barely 1/2 hr after our interview, and called up (probably woke up!) a big shot within the STAR TV network to say, "STOP that interview from being seen!!"

I later heard that you'd threatened to walk out of Kaun Banega Karodpati, if they did air it.

Personally, I do find your behaviour questionable and offensive. Tantrums are for 2 yr olds, (could Big B = Big Baby??) not for a legend such as yourself. You did say in the interview that you are no legend, but you must be considering a MEGA media entity like the STAR TV network, actually succumbed to your blackmail.

I feel sorry for the producers of the Amul India show who invested time, energy, effort and money and lost out on all counts because you were not able to relax and banter.

All of us present were so taken aback that you were grumpy, defensive, relatively inartriculate and possessed virtually no joie de vive.

VERY surprising, considering the light vein of questioning (I did not bring ABCL, BOFORS or your rumored love affairs into it at all.)

If "squash to preserve image" be your theme song, you should have first "squashed" those ridiculous image buster films you came back with. Also, the article that appeared in Sunday Midday which I am enclosing for you.

I write this without an iota of reverence because one does not bow to idiocracy and this "squashing" business is definitely ridiculous.

What a shock to discover that the Big 'B' stands for Big Bully.

I think you owe us all an apology. "None of us are responsible for all the things that, happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen. It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice!"

Pooja Bedi Ebrahim