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Sunday, July 17th, 2011 by
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Bbuddah… Hoga Terra Baap (2011) – Review

I’ve never been a stickler for action movies – particularly the dishum-dishum one-man army variety Bollywood serves on a blood-stained platter. The one exception, though, remains Indian cinema’s proverbial ‘angry young man’, Amitabh Bachchan: superhero for the masses eons before a shirtless Salman Khan became all the rage. Zanjeer. Deewar. …

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Sunday, October 10th, 2010 by
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Bollywood – ’ll work as long as my body allows me – Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan has no ‘special’ plans for his 68th birthday and doesn’t believe in making resolutions either. “Birthdays come and go every year. And for me, every day is special. A resolution may force something on to a day which I don’t want,” he reasons. “I’m nearing 70 now. Sometimes, …

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Thursday, April 29th, 2010 by
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Rann (2010)

Amidst the abundance of directors vying for mainstream success in Bollywood, Ram Gopal Varma (RGV) is a rare breed. He directs movies that fall out of conventional Indian cinema and it seems he does it for the art of storytelling rather than aiming at box-office success. Since the critical success …

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Monday, April 26th, 2010 by
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Kabhi kabhie (1976)

Yash Chopra was making Deewaar at the same time as Kabhi kabhie and was working with some of the same cast. In Kabhi kabhie, this included actors who had worked across several decades, from the veteran (Waheeda Rehman) to the very young (Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh), with some actors …

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Monday, April 26th, 2010 by
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Silsila (1981)

Silsila was controversial from the start. Even before it was released there was gossip about the casting, due to persistent rumours that it depicted a real-life love triangle between Amitabh, his wife, Jaya, and his supposed mistress, Rekha. Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor), an airforce pilot, and Shobha (Jaya Bachchan) are about …

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Sunday, April 25th, 2010 by
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Sholay (1975)

Generally accepted to be the greatest Hindi film of all time, this film appeals to everyone and is always a good choice to show to people who have never seen a Hindi film before, as it needs no cultural explanations (even though they can add to the meaning). Jai (Amitabh …

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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by
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Paa (2009)

A film where Vidya Balan looks good and Amitabh is not ‘Amitabh’ sounds almost too good to be true, but such a film has finally been made. Any character Amitabh has played in over three decades has veered on a spectrum between Anthony and Narayan Shankar (Mohabbatein). His character always …

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Saturday, December 26th, 2009 by
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Shakti (1982)

This film is always remembered as the one time that Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan played father and son. While both stars had played the role of the person who becomes a criminal but remains honest and decent, here the father is the police officer while the son is the …

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