Big B's Bindass BolHindi film superstar Amitabh Bachchan is known as Big B in India. It has something to do with his stature as the most successful actor in Hindi filmdom. As a man who has ruled Bollywood without any challenge for more than a decade, whose name spells profit for distributors and who have proved time and again, what length he can to achieve his goals, he deserves the title the fans and industry people have given to him. But it is his thinking mind that gives more credence to his already established position as the numero uno man of Hindi films. Any issue pertaining to Bollywood remains unresolved until BigB has aired his opinion on the same. And man, what thoughts he speaketh out. Sometimes he speaks what others in the industry are either afraid of speaking or can't speak up, being utterly unable to grasp the reality. One gets to know why Amitabh was once called 'One Man Industry'. This guy is the only thinking block around. Others might feign intellectuality, the wisdom comes only from the knowledgeable ones.
Given this background, his latest statement attributing Bollywodd success to economic progress of India goes on to be one more example of his amazing many sided persona.
"The burgeoning economic progress of the country has given a huge fillip to Indian films globally," Mr. Bachchan has been quoted as saying. This is not the first time that he has sighted some non filmy reasons as the base of success for the movies. It is a different matter altogether that many of these films featured Big B as in prominent roles and those who flooded theatres to watch his movies would vouch something else. Some two years ago, Mr. Bachchan had said that the frustration and anger in Indian youth after emergency was one of the reason for unbelievable success of his consecutive films. By doing so, he established himself as a thinking artist in Bollywood, a rare commodity in itself. His reasoning at that time was as valid as it is this time.
There is no denying of the fact that after the emergency episode in 1975, Indian youth and people as a whole were full of resentment. They found their 'Exhaust valve' in Big B. His portrayal of angry youth, full of vengeance taking revenge on society, was easily lapped up for this reason. Diwar, Lawaris, Trishul...these were some of the films that showed a fierce Amitabh with 'Vendetta' as his sole agenda. This roles earned him the epitaph of 'Angry Young Man.'
But this could not be the success of Amitabh movies, as is proven by the recent run of his films on various Satellite Channels of his films. His popularity lies not in political reason or situations surrounding him but the solid base of his personality.
Now he has explained away economic growth of the country as the reason for the stunning run of Bollywood movies in overseas market. "I always believed that when a country does well economically, everything about it gets noticed - its dress, culture, language and the films", the 64-year-old actor said while launching the album of his latest film "Baabul" which will have a world premiere on Dec 8.
"The success of Bollywood films like Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna shows that the Indian audience is also beginning to mature and are prepared to watch films with different topics and different subjects," he said.
Mr. Bachchan was also categorical about venturing into Hollywood. Though revered in India and many Third World countries more than any actor from Hollywood, he has been asked time and again about working in Hollywood or winning an Oscar. This time also, asked whether he planned to move over to Hollywood films, Bachchan said such presumption gave the impression that acting in Hollywood films was the ultimate thing.
"We are happy with Bollywood films and we would like to see good films being produced in Bollywood which are universally acclaimed." Answering a question on different types of roles he had been playing during his illustrious career, the "Big B" said that "we move with the time and adopt ourselves to the changing times, values and perception." "May be a film like ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ which deals with extra marital relations might not have been so successful a few years back."
"The burgeoning economic progress of the country has given a huge fillip to Indian films globally," Mr. Bachchan has been quoted as saying. This is not the first time that he has sighted some non filmy reasons as the base of success for the movies. It is a different matter altogether that many of these films featured Big B as in prominent roles and those who flooded theatres to watch his movies would vouch something else. Some two years ago, Mr. Bachchan had said that the frustration and anger in Indian youth after emergency was one of the reason for unbelievable success of his consecutive films. By doing so, he established himself as a thinking artist in Bollywood, a rare commodity in itself. His reasoning at that time was as valid as it is this time.
There is no denying of the fact that after the emergency episode in 1975, Indian youth and people as a whole were full of resentment. They found their 'Exhaust valve' in Big B. His portrayal of angry youth, full of vengeance taking revenge on society, was easily lapped up for this reason. Diwar, Lawaris, Trishul...these were some of the films that showed a fierce Amitabh with 'Vendetta' as his sole agenda. This roles earned him the epitaph of 'Angry Young Man.'
But this could not be the success of Amitabh movies, as is proven by the recent run of his films on various Satellite Channels of his films. His popularity lies not in political reason or situations surrounding him but the solid base of his personality.
Now he has explained away economic growth of the country as the reason for the stunning run of Bollywood movies in overseas market. "I always believed that when a country does well economically, everything about it gets noticed - its dress, culture, language and the films", the 64-year-old actor said while launching the album of his latest film "Baabul" which will have a world premiere on Dec 8.
"The success of Bollywood films like Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna shows that the Indian audience is also beginning to mature and are prepared to watch films with different topics and different subjects," he said.
Mr. Bachchan was also categorical about venturing into Hollywood. Though revered in India and many Third World countries more than any actor from Hollywood, he has been asked time and again about working in Hollywood or winning an Oscar. This time also, asked whether he planned to move over to Hollywood films, Bachchan said such presumption gave the impression that acting in Hollywood films was the ultimate thing.
"We are happy with Bollywood films and we would like to see good films being produced in Bollywood which are universally acclaimed." Answering a question on different types of roles he had been playing during his illustrious career, the "Big B" said that "we move with the time and adopt ourselves to the changing times, values and perception." "May be a film like ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’ which deals with extra marital relations might not have been so successful a few years back."
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