Amitabh Bachchan was reminded of his childhood after watching Aamir Khan's latest production Peepli Live,a satire that deals with the worsening condition of farmers in India. The 67-year-old actor and his wife Jaya were invited by Aamir for a special screening and Bachchan is all praises about the film which released on Friday. "Aamir invited Jaya and myself to view his film Peepli Live and then for diner to his house. The film took me back to my place of birth and deposited me within the distinct atmosphere of my roots,and I loved that. But apart from that it was a superb film ; even the wife loved it," wrote Bachchan on his blog. The film,directed by Anusha Rizvi,is set in a small village in Madhya Pradesh and centers around the life of a farmer and his family. "The enactment of those times,the actors selected and the way they performed,all came to us in a heady mix by the end of the day," added Bachchan,who himself hails from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. Later the senior Bachchan went to Aamir's place for dinner,where they discussed the film with the 44-year-old actor and his wife Kiron. "We talked about the film of course,but more than that whether such films should be made in abundance,whether we need to educate the masses,to entertain them and drive them away from the realities of life,or to succumb to the age old formula of escapism," wrote Bachchan. "There was nostalgia,laughter,narrative anecdotes,two frisky cats that insisted on diving around us in excitement and then Aamir himself - introspective,calm,fault finding and sincere," he added.
