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Amitabh Bachchan: Roles
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As 'brand ambassador' for the IIFAs, Bachchan is a gilded asset, a name that can garner a House of Commons launch and a 30-minute audience with Gordon Brown. Dressed in a plaid Armani coat that sets off his trademark silver goatee, the 64-year-old actor still cuts an imposing figure as he strides across York station to a silver Rolls-Royce the size of a small tank, though not all the locals are impressed. 'Never heard of him,' comes one loud, deadpan twang.
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[T]he roles on life's stage multiplied: a Lok Sabha MP from Allahabad to help out his friend Rajiv Gandhi, businessman, model, showman, NRI, entertainment tycoon with the Amitabah Bachchan Corporation Limited, etc. And with it all came the kind of problems he could not dishum-dishum away as he did on screen: Bofors, the tussle with V.P. Singh, creditors wanting to grab his house. And the biggest dilemma: no new avatar for the screen. The edifice of the legend began to show some cracks.
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Bachchan essayed a fantastic range of ‘off-beat’ roles under the direction of veteran Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Apart from ‘Anand’ and ‘Namak Haraam’, he gave standout performances in ‘Abhimaan’ (1973) ‘Mili’ (1975), ‘Chupke Chupke’ (1975), ‘Jurmana’ (1979) and ‘Bemisaal’ (1982).
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The buzz is that the man behind masterpieces like Gladiator and Matchstick Men is really keen to direct Bachchan. The two first met in 2003 at the Marrakech Film Festival in Rabat, Morocco where Scott offered Bachchan a role in the 2005 spectacle Kingdom of Heaven.
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B[A]chchan never subtracts from a film. It is a pity that he was not allowed to mature as an actor, whether because of his image as the angry young man, or because mainstream Hindi film directors, working on a failsafe formula, rarely bother with the skills involved to make the actor feel and emote the role he is portraying. Which is why the type-casting of actors to play stereotypical roles.
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Yash Chopra exploited the romantic side of Bachchan to the hilt in ‘Kabhi Kabhie’ (1976) and ‘Silsila’ (1981). Bachchan ... did the ‘angry’ roles with Yash Chopra in ‘Trishul’ (1978) and ‘Kaala Patthar’ (1979).
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