Amitabh Bachchan, the megastar of Bollywood leaves no stone unturned in whatever project he lends his hands to. Thus, it was on Sunday, the 12th of December that Big B was spotted in front of the TV cameras sitting right in the heart of the Pench Tiger Reserve in MP along with the two of television’s most popular figures – Dr Pranoy Roy and Vikram Chandra.
The ‘Save our Tiger Telethon’ was an effort to bring about awareness to save our tigers from extinction and facing a total wipe out from our planet. According to official reports, there are only about 3, 200 tigers left in the wild all over the world and India which was considered to be the ideal home of the wild beast has now only a few left in its wild life count of the species.
Thus, the effort to bring about awareness was initiated by the joint effort of NDTV and the mobile service provider Aircel, which was indeed a great success. The live show began at 11AM and it had contributions from various sources.
Many political figures also came in to lend their support. There were discussions and a strategic plan was said to be soon laid out in this project with top politicians to meet in the next three months to bring about a great change in the changing environmental patterns, thereby making an effort to promote more greenery and forests to enable the tiger to multiply in its natural habitat.
With various contributions made, an astounding total of Rs. 4, 86, 68,932 was collected during the twelve-hour live program. Many top artists from the musical world came in to lend their support too and there were live singing on the spot shows aired, which added a lot of zing to the show for a great cause. The most impressive part was the participation of many school children and forest officers who came forward to spread awareness about the importance of tigers in our existence in this planet.
There are 34 RRT’S or Rapid Response Teams to be set up with the money collected to help the project tiger to become fruitful in the near future!
