Pune-based professor Shashikant Pedwal, who has an uncanny likeness to Amitabh Bachchan, recently got a golden opportunity to meet the actor during a shoot. Shashikant, with 482K followers on Instagram, has hundreds of viral videos of him dancing to Big B’s hits or lip-syncing to his famous dialogues.
Pedwal is a teacher by profession who has been performing stage shows as Bachchan for more than a decade now. However, using his mimicry skills to do good, he has often earned plaudits online for visiting cancer patients as Bachchan to spread joy.
During the coronavirus pandemic, Pedwal hit headlines for virtually entertaining Covid-19 patients during stressful times. After seeing Shashikant’s selfie with Amitabh, fans are calling him real Jr Bachchan. “I honestly thought it was Amitabh Bachchan,” commented one social media user and another joined in by saying, “You look more like BIG B than BIG B himself” (sic) A user wrote: “Real Jr bacchan toh muje ye lagta hai.” Check here!
