The NFT has taken the whole world by storm. Even Bollywood is not untouched by it. Recently, Amitabh Bachchan has also joined the NFT craze by auctioning off his memorabilia. His NFT collection titled “Madhushala” amassed a bid of a whopping $420,000 on the first day of the auction. In terms of Indian currency, that’s a mind-boggling INR 3.8 crore. To those who don’t know, Madhushala is a collection of poems written by Bachchan’s father Shri Harivansh Rai Bachchan, a renowned poet.
His NFT collection “Madhushala” is just the same. It is the audio collection of the poems written by his father in the megastar’s voice. Well, the audio poems were the main attraction. However, there’s a lot more to Bachchans NFT collection. It consists of 7 posters of his iconic films. All of them are autographed. Plus, the NFT collections also have a “punks and NFTs art and poster collection”. With all that stuff in the collection, the buyer also gets a ‘Loot Box’. Every buyer gets an art piece from the NFT collection.
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To those who don’t know, NFT stands for non-fungible token. It is a data unit stored on a blockchain. It certifies every digital asset or file to be unique. This makes it non-interchangeable. It is used to represent all sorts of digital items like audio, videos, photos, etc. Even though Amitabh Bachchan is the latest Indian star to add his name to this list, he’s certainly not the first one. Many Indian celebrities have joined the NFT craze.
Some of them include Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik, famous fashion designer Manish Malhotra, Bollywood actress Sunny Leone, etc. Salman Khan is planning to launch NFT soon as well. Now, it will be interesting to see who becomes the next one to get added to this NFT craze.