This story is from October 13, 2008

AB’s date troubles

TNN / Oct 13, 2008, 00:27 IST

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On Amitabh Bachchan’s birthday, numerologist Sanjay B Jumaani wrote for TOI, predicting that the Big B might have health troubles.

Numerologist Sanjay B Jumaani had said, when predicting that Amitabh Bachchan would have stomach problems this year, that he hoped he was wrong.
It turned out that he wasn��t when, on his birthday, the day Jumaani��s prediction appeared in Delhi Times, Big B was rushed to the hospital in Mumbai with a stomach complaint.
Jumaani was immediately called by mediapersons for a response, and it continued all day long.

Here is his account of the day, and his reaction when he heard the news.
��When Delhi Times asked me a few days ago for a forecast on Big B��s birthday, I wrote back that I hoped I was wrong, but he had to guard against health problems, specially stomach ailments of the worst kind.

Little did I expect a call from DT a few hours after the prediction appeared in the paper on Amitji��s birthday, saying that my prophesy was bang on target.
I would be lying if I said that I wasn��t excited. And this is strictly from a numerologist��s creative point of view, however selfish it may sound. Later, the ignominy of the situation sank in, and I had some shameful moments that were very hard for me to ��stomach��! I felt miserable, just as someone would have felt after making a correct forecast for an earthquake or a tsunami. I preferred to call it the flip side of my profession and pretended that this was the face-saving part of the episode, even if my wife Jhernna wasn��t a bit convinced.

I got at least 35-36 calls from mediapersons, and my clients also emailed and SMSed me, congratulating me for the prediction and saying that they were also praying for Amitji. Most callers asked me how I predicted this, how he could recover soon, and for a prediction of the year ahead for him.
Number 4, Uranus (Rahu) doesn��t gel with Saturn (Shani), number 8, which governs Librans. In 1982, when the Big B miraculously cheated death after reviving from a coma, making the mother of all comebacks, he was in his 40th year and 40 = 4, Uranus. Eerily, history caught up with him again, the day he entered his 67th year (67 = 4 again)!
As earlier suggested, yoga, meditation and relaxation is what the doctor (or numerologist) ordered. I have also suggested a gem, gomedh (hessonite) to counter Rahu. I even SMSed the same to some members of Amitji��s family.��

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