Ten years ago, a 10-bigha land owned by Big B spun big dreams for impoverished villagers of Daulatpur, 70km from Lucknow. The nondescript village catapulted to stardom after Amitabh Bachchan accompanied by wife Jaya, son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya laid the foundation of Srimati Aishwarya Bachchan Degree College in 2008.

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A decade later, not a brick has been laid on the ground and the foundation stone lies dumped in a dusty corner of the gram pradhan’s house. But then villagers resorted to crowd-funding to build a degree college, just 500 metres away from Bachchan’s plot.

The galaxy of stars which descended on Daulatpur along with the Bachchan family 10 years ago also included political heavyweights.

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