Amitabh Bachchan is set to play a superstar named Ashmit Bhargava in Kushan Nandy’s “The Actor”, which incorporates many incidents from the Big B’s life, making it his most autobiographical film to date.”Yes, I wrote ‘The Actor’ for Mr. Bachchan, along with two writer-friends Kiran Shyam Shroff and Ghalib Asad,” said Kushan.
Confirming the news, Amitabh [...]
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February 11th, 2009 by riaz
You had your eyes wide open when you saw Denise Richards romancing our Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar in Kambakht Ishq; you had your jaw drop when you saw Sylvester Stallone having a laugh with our size zero girl Kareena Kapoor on the sets of the same film.
Just a few days [...]
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February 3rd, 2009 by riaz
Indian megastar Amitabh Bacchan was honoured with World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Crystal Award here for his contribution to the world of art.
Noted Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer Mallika Sarabhai was also honoured Saturday along with Chinese martial artist and actor Jet Li and Venezuelan musician José Antonio Abreu.
The WEF is a Geneva based non-profit organisation and [...]
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February 1st, 2009 by riaz
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January 27th, 2009 by neeraj
Amitabh Bachchan will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos attended by 2500 of the world’s leading figures from politics, economics and business – including forty-one Heads of State. Amitabh will be presented with the Crystal Award at the Forum for his contribution to improving the state of the world. Amitabh has been prominent [...]
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January 26th, 2009 by riaz
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan, who had stoked a controversy by slamming ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Friday said the movie was ‘wonderful’ and expressed happiness that composer A.R. Rahman won three Oscar nominations for his score and songs in the movie.
‘The sound engineer of this wonderful movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Rasool, an Indian, has also won a nomination along [...]
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January 23rd, 2009 by riaz
Speculation about Amitabh Bachchan turning down the role of the game-show host in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire finally comes to an end.
The Big B confirms that the offer never came to him.
Strange, considering he plays a very important part in the plot as the mega-icon of the all the slumdwellers of Boyle’s [...]
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January 19th, 2009 by riaz
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan cancelled his scheduled visit to Nepal this week at the last moment due to the deepening row over the hallowed Pashupatinath temple that has pitted Nepal’s Maoist government against priests and Hindu devotees, said a report Monday.Former Indian defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was also chief minister of Uttar Pradesh [...]
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January 5th, 2009 by riaz
Amid the war of words between the three Khans – Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman – the ‘Ghajini’ star Aamir has declared that it is none other than superstar Amitabh Bachchan who is still the number one in Bollywood.’For me Amitabh Bachchan is No 1. Do Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar and Amitabh Bachchan say they [...]
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December 22nd, 2008 by riaz
Though they belong to totally different generations and have done a generation-challenged and challenging love story together, fate seems to have bonded Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu is an strange an inextricable clasp.
After doing Cheeni Kam a completely contemporary take on marriage and gender equations, the Big B and Tabu now go back to several centuries [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
Amitabh Bachchan has pulled out his revolver many a times on screen. This time he has pulled out the revolver again, but not to shoot anyone on screen but to defend himself and have a safe sleep.
He says, “Last night, as the events of the terror attack unfolded in front of me I did something [...]
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November 28th, 2008 by riaz
If you can’t tolerate one Chunky Panday, two would be double trouble. And that’s going to be the case in Anubhav Sinha’s SANKAT CITY directed by Pankaj Advani. Chunky, for the first time in his career, is playing a double role. And guess what! It’s a take-off on DON (do we see Bachchan and SRK [...]
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November 11th, 2008 by riaz