Big B offers help to flood-hit Bihar

Big B offers help to flood-hit Bihar

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan wants to contribute to the relief operations in flood-ravaged Bihar.

"I offer whatever is desired of my family and me to do to alleviate the sufferings of our brothers and sisters in Bihar," Bachchan wrote in his blog.

"Let somebody take charge, take a decision, draw a plan, whatever; collecting funds or material, I shall contribute. But how and where? somebody tell me. I will do it."

The actor, who is currently performing with his family on the Unforgettable Tour, is in Paris.

"Bihar. Hurricane Gustav. Such misery. And so painful to witness the suffering."

Hundreds and thousands of people have been rendered homeless in eastern Bihar state eversince the Kosi river burst a dam in Nepal late last month.

Around 100,000 ha (250,000 acres) of state's farmlands has been destroyed in the flooding which is the worst ever in 50 years.