TV Superstar is also Amitabh Bachchan

The phenomenon that revitalized Bollywood Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan’s silver screen career a decade ago has once again received unprecedented viewing audience.

This time, the format of KBC (IV) was shortened with the first question starting at 5,000 Rs and a sense of urgency crept into the players with the introduction of Ghadial Babu. Big B was at his charismatic best once again and we could get to see all his KBC one liners hitting the right note with the audience.

Apparently, KBC has revived Sony’s TRPs magnificently and even the new age action heroes Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar had to take a back seat on TV when compared to Mr.Bachchan.

Hope Big B comes back with the season V and makes all the audiences say once again, 9 baj gaye kya!

Vidya with Amitabh Bachchan Once again

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan and Megastar Amitabh Bachchan shared a terrific screen chemistry in the film ‘Paa’ where they played the role of a mother and son. And while that film went on to give ‘Auro’ his national award, the buzz is out that Vidya Balan and Amitabh Bachchan are teaming up again.

And yet again, they are not playing the romantic pair (which is surprising given that Amitabh has romanced younger lots like Tabu and Jiah Khan in ‘Cheeni Kum’ and ‘Nishabd’ respectively).

Well! Renowned Bengali director Rituparno Ghosh is all geared up to bring on celluloid the tale of Kabulliwallah penned by the Noble Award winner Rabindranath Tagore. Amitabh shall play the protagonist Kabulliwallah who woos the young girl Mini with his baadam pistas and akhroths. Vidya shall play the grow-up avatar of Mini.

Vidya Balan is pretty gung ho about this project as Kabulliwallah is one of her fav stories. Vidya often wonders what may have happened to the character of Mini post her marriage. This is, surely, a touching, moving tale of an old man and an inquisitive girl and deserves a celluloid immortality by the likes of great actors like Amitabh.

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Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) 4 On Top in TRPs

Bombay: On Monday night, Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Kaun Banega Crorepati made a comeback on the small screen coinciding with the Amitabh Bachchan's 68th birthday. So did Amitabh Bachchan senior manage to make an impact on the TRPs?

Amitabh Bachchan's return to the fourth season of Kaun Banega Crorepati has been an event in itself, while the show changed hands from Star Plus to Sony Entertainment - the channel made sure that the opening episode was a celebration of sorts - having coincided to play out with the Big B's 68th birthday.

Television viewers not only got to see Senior Bachchan mouth a few dialogues from some of his popular films but also witnessed the actor singing and shaking a leg before returning to play his role as the host. While there were a few tweets from the likes of Abhishek Bachchan and Akshay Kumar cheering the Big B's return to television, general public too gave a thumbs up to the show.

Going by aMap ratings, Kaun Banega Crorepati 4 seems to have opened with a bang when compared with other recent Star driven television shows.

The first episodes of Colors' Khatron Ke Khiladi - Season 3 with Priyanka Chopra and Bigg Boss with Salman Khan saw ratings of 2.4 and 3.6 respectively. While the first episode of KBC - Season 4 with Bachchan pulled in average ratings of 5.0.

While it's still too early to pass a verdict since the industry standard TAM ratings are yet to be released, it sure looks like the Big B has received his birthday wish with the opening figures of Kaun Banega Crorepati 4.

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Kaun Banega Crorepati 4 - Big B and SRK Together

The reality show, ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ which will be is aired on Sony Entertainment channel on 11th otcober 2010, will have both Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan sharing the screen space for a special episode of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, where Amitabh Bachchan is the host.

Reason for SRK’s entry in season 4: A huge buzz and shoot up of TRP of the show as well as Sony channel.

The sources close to the show says, “The channel is very keen to have an episode that would have the two hosts of KBC face to face. The channel knows that this is what will give them a huge buzz. SRK is having good relations with the channel as well as the makers of the show, so it is hugely being anticipated that he might give a nod for this special episode. Everyone has their fingers crossed.”

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Mallika to romance Amitabh!

Bollywood’s sex siren Mallika Sherawat had recently proclaimed loud and clear that she dreamed of sharing screen space with megastar Amitabh Bachchan. If all goes well, she is not just going to share screen space with him but act opposite him.

Buzz up!Mallika, who is currently busy in the US with Hollywood projects including Hissss, has been offered lots of Bollywood scripts. But the script that requires her to pair with Amitabh has caught her attention.
The daring actress said that she liked the script sent by PNC, which has her dream actor Amitabh in the lead and would take the narration by the end of this month. She added that everybody wants to act with the Big B and doesn’t mind running around the trees with him.

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Mallika to romance Amitabh!

Bollywood’s sex siren Mallika Sherawat had recently proclaimed loud and clear that she dreamed of sharing screen space with megastar Amitabh Bachchan. If all goes well, she is not just going to share screen space with him but act opposite him.

Buzz up!Mallika, who is currently busy in the US with Hollywood projects including Hissss, has been offered lots of Bollywood scripts. But the script that requires her to pair with Amitabh has caught her attention.
The daring actress said that she liked the script sent by PNC, which has her dream actor Amitabh in the lead and would take the narration by the end of this month. She added that everybody wants to act with the Big B and doesn’t mind running around the trees with him.

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Big B Disappoint with Raavan

Big B Disappoint with Raavan

Bollywood Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan, after the release of Abhishek’s Raavan, kicked up a little storm by expressing his displeasure about the way the movie has been edited. According to Amitabh Bachchan, the poor editing affected his son’s performance.

“Lot of merited film edited out, causing inconsistent performance and narrative. Abhishek’s erratic behavior was due to symbolic 10 heads visually appearing and each giving him different attitudes to adopt for a situation, he would then finally shake them off and decide.”

“.. It’s sad in the edit you only see the after effect of that thinking process, hence inconsistent. In the edit all the visual heads got cut and you see a confused Beera expression and wonder why?” tweeted Bachchan.

However, cinematographer Santosh Sivan and other key players of the film came to the director Mani Ratnam’s defence.

“I personally think everyone has a right to their own opinion. At the end of the day, it’s the director’s call. It’s a different view point he has taken on ‘Raavanan’ which is a huge hit in the South,” said Sivan.

Vikram, who acts in both Hindi and Tamil versions, said that audience will judge whether the movie is good or not.

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Big B upset over 'Raavan'?

In a surprising turn of events, just 2 days after the release of Abhishek & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's 'Raavan', Amitabh Bachchan has criticised the editing of the film on a popular website. Amitabh's statements on the site come in response to heavy criticism for 'Raavan' from critics aross the country. In his statements the Big B says Raavan is 'Sadly' edited and the reason Abhishek's character Beera often appears confused is due to important portions of the film being chopped off on the editing table.

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Big B upset over 'Raavan'?

In a surprising turn of events, just 2 days after the release of Abhishek & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's 'Raavan', Amitabh Bachchan has criticised the editing of the film on a popular website. Amitabh's statements on the site come in response to heavy criticism for 'Raavan' from critics aross the country. In his statements the Big B says Raavan is 'Sadly' edited and the reason Abhishek's character Beera often appears confused is due to important portions of the film being chopped off on the editing table.

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Big B shocked to see Shashi Kapoor‎

Amitabh Bachchan was shocked to see Shashi Kapoor, his co-star of Trishul, Deewar and so many other hits, confined to a wheelchair at the Filmfare awards last week.

 

Amitabh was supposed to present the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award to the 71-year-old actor, but could not attend.

However, Amitabh saw pictures of the event later and was shocked -- just like so many of his other fans.

 

"...the affable (Filmfare) editor Jitesh Pillai had asked me if I would give the Lifetime achievement Award to Shashi Kapoor and I had agreed. With great pleasure. I missed that more than thee expectation of winning the best actor award. Seeing him confined to a wheel chair, was something I could never associate with Shashi ji," the 67-year-old posted on his blog bigb.bigadda.com.

 

"Shashi Kapoor, that handsome gentle man. A smile on his face forever. A considerate calling on each meeting, now in this condition? Never," he added.

They were seen together in hits like Deewar, Trishul, Namak Halal and Silsila.

Remembering the times they spent together, Amitabh wrote: "Film after film we did together, Shashiji and I, shared some of my most memorable times together in the Industry. He is now my relative. His elder brother, the great Raj Kapoor's daughter Ritu's son Nikhil is married to (my daughter) Shweta.

 

"I spoke to him on his birthday some days ago and then again when I wanted to invite him to the premier of Paa. He had sounded weak in voice and expressed his inability to come. "I am not well', he had whispered faintly and I told him I would arrange a special screening for him. But I had never expected him to be the way I saw him at the award function in the pictures a few days back," said Amitabh.

 

The lifetime achievement award to Shashi was finally given by Shabana Azmi.

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Rajini follows Amitabh Bachchan

According to sources, Superstar Rajini has decided not to act as youth after release of ‘Endhiran’, instead he would take up roles that will suit his real age.

 We will get to see a never-seen-before, young and smart Rajini in his forthcoming Shankar’s ‘Endhiran’.

Looks like Rajini want to do dignified character roles like our great Amitabh Ji.

 

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Aamir Khan visited Amitabh Bachchan

United we stand, divided we fall. Our stars have understood the importance of unity. So, Aamir Khan visited Amitabh Bachchan on Monday morning to discuss the publicity of their respective movies as both Paa and 3 Idiots will release in the same month, that is December.

The news came to us by the stars’ blog posts. On Sunday, Big B wrote, “Aamir comes over tomorrow at my initiative to discuss a few promotional points for our respective films…Let’s see how things go.” While Aamir’s Facebook post on Monday morning said, “Pucca Idiott is very keen to see Paa.”

So, was it all for publicity as Amitabh is set to revive his company with ‘Paa’ and Aamir is quite a pro in planning marketing gimmicks for his films? However, on Tuesday, Big B blogged about the meeting and didn’t mention anything significant about the publicity strategy.

“Aamir dropped by yesterday (Monday) in the morning at my invitation and it was lovely to spend time with him, discuss the film, show him the promo, receive his appreciation, talk about his own film and invite him for the premiere (of ‘Paa’),” he wrote.

Skeptics however claim that this meeting was just eyewash for getting publicity ahead of both the releases. But trade analyst Taran Adarsh tells a daily, “They won’t stoop to this level merely for publicity. But it’s good that stars are coming together. It will help build a better industry”.

Sure, it’s nice to see the two stalwarts bonding over business.

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