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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Bol­ly Talks

Bolly stars turn organ donors

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Bol­ly­wood celebri­ties are no strangers to hu­man­i­tar­i­an caus­es and char­i­ta­ble works, and the lat­est trend seems to be do­na­tions. Do­na­tions, #Bol­lyTalks? That sounds very "reg­u­lar" to me, you say. Well, we are talk­ing about the do­na­tion of body parts.

That's right. Shilpa Shet­ty, ac­tress turned en­tre­pre­neur is the lat­est on the list, and she has of­fered: her eyes.

She re­cent­ly vis­it­ed the Son­ai vil­lage in the Ahmed­na­gar dis­trict and made the pledge through Yash­want Sama­jik Pratisthan, a so­cial or­gan­i­sa­tion. She said that it would give her great sat­is­fac­tion if some­one could have vi­sion from her eyes af­ter she pass­es. Shilpa's sis­ter, Shami­ta made the same com­mit­ment pri­or to the ac­tress.

In­ter­est­ing­ly enough, this next ac­tor is al­so some­one who has do­nat­ed his eyes for a wor­thy cause, but he may need some body parts of his own for his next gig. Sir Amitabh Bachchan will be do­ing a tele­vised fic­tion se­ries called Yudh and has un­der­tak­en some risky stunts us­ing a heavy body rig against med­ical or­ders.

It's been 30 years since Amitabh has worn one; he had an ac­ci­dent in 1982 on the set of Coolie af­ter us­ing one, and was since for­bid­den af­ter the sig­nif­i­cant trau­ma he suf­fered.

"The di­rec­tor was try­ing to find a way out of the sit­u­a­tion when Big B, re­al­is­ing how im­por­tant the stunts with the body rig were, took an im­promp­tu de­ci­sion, slipped in­to the body rig and went right ahead with the stunts."


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