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Why Mamata called up Big B
Updated On: 04 October, 2012 08:42 AM IST | | Shaheen Parkar
It took just one phone call from Mamata Banerjee to rope in Amitabh Bachchan for the forthcoming Kolkata film festival
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may be causing political upheavals in the country but at the same time she is keen to grab eyeballs by welcoming Bollywood’s A-List to Kolkata.u00a0It took Didi (as she is called) only a phone call to have the Big B as the star guest in attendance for the Kolkata film festival in mid-November. In a bid to up the glam quotient of the state, the CM herself took upon the onus of having the biggest star inaugurate the festival.

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