Superstar Amitabh Bachchan knows everything about cinema… he is the king when it comes to acting and stardom, but the man lags when it comes to technology.
Recently Bachchan was inaugurate an online payment service wallet365.com but out there, Bachchan immediately admitted that he wasn't computer savvy at all.
"Thank you very much for offering me such an exalted position of being able to come here thi
s evening and open this wonderful nerve system of which I have no idea because I am not really computer savvy. I am very keen to know as I believe there is going to be computer presentation as to how this thing is going to function," he said.
Bachchan says that he believes that technology does make life easier. "New innovations in this sphere are being brought up by distinguished people and it certainly helps us to move with times. Time is really moving fast now and every other month some new innovation comes up which brings us closer together and makes life little more convenient and easier for us to exist and this is another experiment," says Bachchan.
At the same time, Shah Rukh Khan, like the tech savvy Ramprasad from Main Hoon Na knows his gadgets well.
"I am a computer geek. I know everything about computers that is there to know. I can listen music on it, I can edit films on it, I can make photographs on it and I know lots of things about computers," says King Khan.
Khan says he knows about computers ever since he was a kid. "I was in class 7 or 8 when computers were introduced to us. Children should be introduced to computers as soon as they introduced to television. Nowadays they are introduced to television as soon as they are born. From that age children are encouraged to watch TV. If they can watch TV for 2 -3 hours than they should not mind use of computers ," says Khan.
Khan says computers are part of his lifestyle. "I use computers for everything for writing scenes, for watching edited portions, for editing my own films, for teaching my children things, for research I search on the net whenever I need to find out something including film personalities I do a google search and go down and check what is to be downloaded.. I use computers extensively. I use it all the time," he says.
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