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Ab Bachchan Ki Baari...
Viewers can enjoy a month-long festival of the legend's movies
MAX is all set to take you for a roller coaster ride with some of the unforgettable blockbusters of Amitabh Bachchan in a month-long film festival titled AB Tak Bachchan. This festival brings his finest performances alive for the viewers, but as you look forward to the festival we share some unheard facts about Senior Bachchan. Commenting on the month-long Amitabh Bachchan special on the channel, Sneha Rajani, Business Head of MAX said, "It's our privilege to present to our viewers the Amitabh Bachchan film festival – AB Tak Bachchan. In our constant endeavour to give the best of the movie world to our viewers, we have always shown the biggest and the best movies to our audiences and what better than to give our viewers the greatest ever legend of Indian cinema – Amitabh Bachchan? By airing movies from Zanjeer to Shahenshah, Deewar to Baghban, our attempt is to present the best of Senior Bachchan. It's what we term a timeless collection of some of his greatest classics from his unparalleled prolific repertoire. I am sure that our viewers will thoroughly enjoy the festival."
Things you didn't know about Big B
Big B is ambidextrous – he can write with both hands The facial caricature of the Indian comic book character 'Supremo' is based upon Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri met for the first time at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune The first song that Bachchan ever sang was Mere paas aao from the film Mr Natwarlal.
He loves gorging on gulab jamuns, especially from Jhama's in Chembur, Mumbai.
Amitabh is the only actor who has achieved at least one hit every year for 15 consecutive years, from 1972 to 1986.
Movie trivia
While shooting for Mukul Anand's Khuda Gawah in Afghanistan, Najibullah, the then president of Afghanistan, provided Amitabh with half the country's air force for his protection.
Amitabh Bachchan came up with the line Chain khuli ki main khuli, which became a hit in Satte pe Satta.
Amitabh personally wrote the story of the father-son relationship in his own handwriting for the advertising brochures of Waqt – The Race against time.
In Shahenshah, Amitabh Bachchan's metal arm accessory weighed more than 14 kilos. It was a difficult time for the actor as he was suffering from Myasthenia Gravis, a disease that causes weakening of the muscles.
In the film Sharaabi, Amitabh Bachchan created a style of putting his left hand in the pocket, this was because he had burnt his left hand in a mishap.
The original starcast for Silsila was Amitabh Bachchan, Padmini Kolhapure and Parveen Babi. Then Smita Patil replaced Padmini before the cast was finalised with Jaya and Rekha, who had been recommended by Amitabh.
Few years before Deewaar was made, Amitabh Bachchan happened to bump into the smuggler, Haji Mastan where Amitabh noticed a perceptible moistness in the mafia's eyes. He expressed the same look as Vijay, giving the character a vulnerable but tough look.
Watch the best of Amitabh's films on AB Tak Bachchan starting 30th April 2007, Monday to Friday at 8 pm.
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