Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan vowed not to be intimidated into leaving Mumbai, his home for four decades, after being targeted during anti-migrant protests in the city, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Vandals threw glass bottles at Bachchan's home two months ago after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray criticised the actor for funding a college in Uttar Pradesh, his home state, instead of Mumbai, where he lives and works.
Raj has been agitating against what he perceives are outsiders taking jobs from natives of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital.
His comments sparked clashes on Mumbai's streets between supporters of his party and the Socialist Party, which Bachchan's wife Jaya represents in Parliament.
"I am not leaving this city and going anywhere. Let them chuck a thousand bottles," Bachchan told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper. "I am not budging."
The veteran actor said the city brought him fame, and his links stretched back to his marriage and his children's birth in the city.
Bachchan described Raj as "misguided" and said he would continue to undertake work and projects in other states, including Maharashtra.
"I am not an outsider by any stretch of imagination. This is my land as much as it is of every other citizen of our beloved country," he said. "I did not need a visa to come here. I have made this city my home for the last 40 years."
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