Check What Bollywood Is Doing For Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Nov 24, 2014, 14:38 IST

When Narendra Modi, the honourable Prime Minister of India launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, it was sure to become a hit among the masses, owing to the popularity that PM Modi enjoys.

However, there is another section of society which seems to be all geared up for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, and that section belongs to our very own Bollywood.

The day the campaign was launched, PM Modi had nominated nine people for doing their bit for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Of these 9 people, three names belonged to Bollywood and the they were: Kamal Haasan, Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan.

The first one to take up to the good cause was (no points for guessing) Salman Khan, who has been associated with several other humanitarian works. On October 2nd, he tweeted:

Me & my Foundation accept the invite from our honourable Prime Minister for Swachh Bharat and will give our 100% for #MyCleanIndia [sic]

On October 22^nd, he posted photos of him cleaning some garbage in Karjat, where he is shooting for his next film Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.

Seen with him in the images were his co-stars actors Neil Nitin Mukesh and Manoj Joshi.

Actor Kamal Haasan thanked the Prime Minister in an interview and said that he had been doing something similar for the past 20 years.
"I think this cleansing is something I have been doing for the past 20 years with the help of my fans who have converted into a social service organisation. My work continues. It is not a public relations exercise. As far as I am concerned it is a public work I am part of," he had said.

The next in line was the Bollywood heartthrob Hrithik Roshan, who posted pictures from his neighbourhood in Juhu on 26^th October. His tweet read:

#swachhbharat I started cleaning my own surroundings and learnt so much. Started with my lanes in juhu [sic]

He later tweeted this picture:

The next one to pick up the broom was megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who posted the pictures in which he is seen cleaning a Mumbai road on 30^th October. The tweet read:

T 1659 - The 'Swach Bharat Abhiyaan' .. personalised !! Let everyone deserve to be involved. [sic]

Later on November 8th, Bollywood dream girl Hema Malini, who is also the Member of Parliament from the Mathura constituency, cleaned the lanes of Gandhi Park in Vrindavan.

Meanwhile, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur had his own way of taking up the good cause, and he didn’t have to pick up a broom for this one. On October 5^th, he had tweeted an empty water bottle with a beautiful natural backdrop with the caption that read:

I pledge 2 pick up rubbish left by others that destroy our Nation's natural beauty and pit it in a bin. #CleanIndia [sic]

Today, actress Priyanka Chopra has posted a video of how she and her team revamped a slum of Versova, Mumbai. While PC was one of the nine people who were nominated by Modi himself, it took her this long because she didn’t only want to clean the streets but also to change the mindsets. In the video posted on her YouTube channel, the actress can be seen cleaning the streets, painting the walls and planting flowers in the slum area so that the place remains clean and hygienic forever, and not for the day that she was there.