Kolkata: After cycling around the city in November for a movie last year, megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back in Kolkata Saturday to shoot for a music video. The actor was spotted at the historic Jorasanko Thakurbari – the birthplace of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore – in north Kolkata, with filmmaker Shoojit Sircar. Big B will also be promoting R. Balakrishnan’s “Shamitabh” in the city Saturday. Bachchan and actors Deepika Padukone, Irrfan Khan camped in the city for a fortnight November last year during the shoot of Sircar’s “Piku”. Incidentally, Bachchan’s wife and actress Jaya will be speaking at a literary meet Saturday on the writings of her father and writer Taroon Coomar Bhaduri.
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