Big B Speaks Out on Operation Sindoor After Series of Mysterious Blank Posts on X

After nearly three weeks of silence and a string of cryptic blank posts, Amitabh Bachchan finally broke his quiet on Sunday morning. The legendary actor took to X (formerly Twitter) with a powerful and emotional note about Operation Sindoor — India’s recent precision strikes on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir — praising the Indian Armed Forces and paying tribute to the victims of the April 22 Pahalgam attack.

Known for his sharp and often poetic reflections on current events, Bachchan this time chose a deeply personal and evocative tone. He shared a heart-wrenching story from the Pahalgam attack — the chilling moment when a woman witnessed her husband being dragged out, humiliated, and shot by a terrorist. In her grief, she begged to be killed too. But the terrorist reportedly spared her, saying, “Go and tell…” — a moment that seemed to have deeply affected the 82-year-old actor.

In his post, written in Hindi, Bachchan recalled this widow’s trauma through the lens of his late father Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s poetry. Drawing from the same poem he once recited in his film Agneepath, he wrote:

“I carry the ashes of the funeral pyre in my hands, yet the world asks me for sindoor.”

He concluded by declaring, “And ‘he’ gave her the sindoor. OPERATION SINDOOR! Jai Hind. Jai Hind ki Sena!”

The post was an emotional salute to the Indian Army, ending with a fiery chant echoing the “Path of Fire” — a symbol of relentless courage and resolve.

This was Bachchan’s first post since April 22, the day of the Pahalgam attack, which claimed 26 lives — mostly tourists, including a visitor from Nepal. Since then, he had only posted black images with numbered captions, leaving fans puzzled. He never explained his silence, but Sunday’s post revealed the emotional weight he’d been carrying.

With this, Big B joined a growing list of film industry voices — including Aamir Khan, Kangana Ranaut, Rajinikanth, Mammootty, and others — who have condemned the terror attack and later lauded the Indian government and military for the May 7 precision strikes on nine terror camps.

Meanwhile, on Saturday evening, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced that India and Pakistan had agreed to an immediate ceasefire across land, air, and sea following a conversation between the two nations’ military leadership. The agreement came even as the region continued to reel from weeks of bloodshed and tension.

Bachchan’s heartfelt message struck a chord across social media, not only for its patriotic fervor but for the raw human emotion and poetic depth he brought to the national conversation.