Amitabh Bachchan Birthday: Know here why he remains India's biggest superstar, Read life story of Big B
"It's hard to think that this very star who defined heroism and what it meant to be a classic Bollywood hero and spawned a generation of copycats (most famous being Rajinikanth who carved his Southern identity out of Big B remakes) was once dismissed as "too unconventional" to make the cut." . In that days were the days of pink-cheeked heartthrobdom of Rajesh Khanna. But, apparently, when Dimple Kapadia's Ex Husband Rajesh Khanna saw Namak Haraam co-starring the two at a trial at Liberty cinema, he tersely announced, "Here is the superstar of tomorrow." Hrishikesh Mukherjee - a common link between Khanna and Bachchan, between superstar of the present and superstar of the future - was witness to the scene.
"Although Hrishikesh Mukherjee gave poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan's son a Bengali Bhadralok makeover in Anand and appropriately cast him as a sensitive Bard types it was Prakesh Mehra and Salim-Javed who spotted the anger in the upcoming star's eyes. 1973's Zanjeer changed Bachchan's fortunes. It displaced the hill station romanticism of the 1960s with cynicism and rage, perhaps mirroring the darker political mood intrinsic to the 70s."
Big B became the one man who could don a pristine white Bengali kurta and pass off as a singer, professor and depressed alcoholic in the movies like "Abhimaan, Chupke Chupke and Mili respectively" and at the same time, anchor Salim-Javed's anti-Establishment figure into a universally acceptable celluloid anti-hero with daddy issues who, surprisingly, the audience cared even, rooted for.
Amitabh Bachchan while turning 75 today as a grandfather can watch Zanjeer, Anand or Deewaar and enjoy the masterful storytelling and relate to the seething anger of those Bachchan-starrers, his 45-year-old daughter-in-law of Ashwairya Rai Bachchan can be sitting in another room and watching a rerun of "Kaun Banega Crorepati and maybe, the youngest member of that family could be glued to her phone laughing along on the escapades of the wry man-child Auro in Paa."
RELATED SEARCHES
- amitabh bachchan movies
- amitabh bachchan height
- amitabh bachchan son
- amitabh bachchan songs
- amitabh bachchan
- amitabh bachchan wife
No comments:
Post a Comment