Row over presence at sea link event 'manufactured': Amitabh Bachchan

Mumbai: Actor Amitabh Bachchan today said the controversy over his presence at a function in Mumbai for the inauguration of the second phase of the Bandra-Worli sea link has been "manufactured".

"A fresh controversy has been rapidly manufactured on my involvement... The media has been hounding me since the event at the sea link has got over, through incessant SMSes the electronic (media) has followed me even to the theatre where we were seeing Arshad's film," Bachchan wrote in a midnight
post on his blog. Actor Arshad Warsi's film Hum Tum Aur Ghostwill be released this week.

Resentment brewed in a section of Mumbai Congress over the invite to Bachchan to the function where chief minister Ashok Chavan inaugurated the sea link yesterday.

Chavan himself indicated the unhappiness in the party over the invite to Bachchan, a friend-turned-foe of Congress, and exclusion of some party leaders from the function organised by the PWD ministry headed by Congress' coalition partner NCP, which justified the presence of the actor.

Bachchan said he would comment on the controversy later. "But of that (sic) some other time and space," he wrote.