A few years ago an auction was being held at Hyderabad Gymkhana Grounds for a ‘Bat’ donated by a famous cricketer to help flood victims. All the big personalities from the film industry attended the event. The bidding for the bat began, Film heroes started placing their bids But the bidding was moving only in the thousands with great difficulty it reached 1.5 lakhs.
The organizers were disappointed, Just then, a man walked in wearing a white pant and shirt, with an unshaven beard and a cloth bag in his hand. As soon as he arrived, he shouted ‘My bid is ₹8,50,000 (eight lakhs fifty thousand)’. Everyone was stunned, Even top heroes were speechless. The organizers happily finalized his bid. He emptied all the money from the cloth bag he brought and poured it onto the table, took the bat, kissed it and then immediately donated it to an orphanage. Smiling, he said, ‘I only had this much money otherwise, I would have bid even more’. That man was R Narayana Murthy ‘The Peoples Star’. Although he has made nearly 25 films. To this day, he has no own house. His only possessions are a mat and a pillow. Everything he earns, he gives away to the poor. He chose to remain a brahmachari (unmarried) because he felt marriage might hinder his service to society. Heroes are not defined by height, beauty, or muscular bodies ‘A true hero has a beautiful heart’ And Narayana Murthy is the greatest hero of all.