Baby has light eyes, a pout: emotional BigB blogs

An overwhelmed Amitabh Bachchan sat up late at night on what must have been a tiring day as daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai gave birth to a baby girl to blog about his new granddaughter and the first moments when he held her in his hands.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's baby girl may have inherited her light eyes, even though Bachchan said that might change with time as is mostly the case with babies.

"The soft innocence of nature rests in my arms, oblivious of what else happens around her. Occasionally she opens her large and what looks now to be eyes of the lighter hue, which those that have dealt with similar, know shall change with time," Bachchan wrote on his blog.

"Often the gentlest of smiles quiver across her pouted upper lip, the shut eyes bringing expression through the brows and the settling down to that dream she must dream. Her head covered in the littlest of head gear she will ever adorn, snuggles into her mini quilt of varied colors dominated by the pink softness of its material," he said.

The nostalgic senior Bachchan recalled the day he held son and actor Abhishek in his arms and took him to his father, noted poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

While the Bachchan clan fussed about the baby and cooed at her, Bachchan said he shared a very intimate moment with the newest member in the household.

"I stare at her in silence. She reciprocates in similar vein. It is too delicate a moment. I am unaccustomed to such delicate state. Should I shake my arms cradle like to give comfort, or maybe simply remain still as family cameras and members gather around," he said.

As is the case in most households after a birth, the ladies soon started to speculate whom the baby resembles.

"The ladies about, ogle with baby like sounds intermittently, and deliver diverse opinions on who she resembles. There are animated conversations of how this state of delivery was reached, in some intricate terminology and detail. These words are new to me. I have not heard them. Or perhaps not heard them often enough to know them. After a pregnant pause it is time for her to be airlifted from within my arms. I give this angelic face a prolonged look...Dad ! I hold the 9th Bachchan in my hands .. this family that you started .. !!"

The Bachchans haven't named the baby yet. But the actor said Aishwarya showed "exceptional strength and courage" during the delivery. As household members cried, Bachchan said he tried hard to hold back tears himself.

"It has been a day of immense emotion. Tears of joy have erupted among all that were from family and about Aishwarya all along. On occasion they have tried desperately to occupy mine as well. But as the 'official' camera recorder of the event I have secretly dropped a few behind the eyes of the lens that I hold. These are rare moments and rare reactions."