Perturbed by the reports in the media that metro rail construction will deprive Amitabh Bachchan of his privacy, the superstar has released a statement saying that he welcomes the development and has no worries with the construction passing near his home in Juhu, Mumbai.

In the statement released for the media – to which Big B blames that it fabricated his words and took only pieces of information from his blog, he told that he is a proud Mumbaikar and is looking forward to the development, which will solve traveling worries for lakhs of people.

“My blog represents my heart and on the matter of the Metro it clearly tells the ‘general happiness’ that it brings to ‘commuters’ and that ’the misery of crowded locals and the uncertainties of the three wheeler or the yellow black cab shall hopefully be greatly reduced’. Indeed I have ended the piece by saying welcome ‘fellow passengers’. By fellow passenger I include myself as one,” the statement read in a news.

“Mumbai as a city has given my family and I a place in their hearts besides recognition and respect. I am proud to be a Mumbaikar and I welcome the changes which we are being seen in the city,” he uttered.

Big B’s earlier remarks reported in the media were not taken well by the home minister of the state, RR Patil – who criticized Bachchan for making such comments.