New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has received lots of compliments for his performance in ‘Paa’ and the latest to join the bandwagon is Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.
‘Sachin Tendulkar called to personally compliment me on ‘Paa’,’ the 68-year-old posted on his blog, bigb.bigadda.com.
‘I was waiting for him to finish his [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan seems to be following his father, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, wherever he can. If the grapevine is to be believed, Abhishek is now set to host a new show titled ‘Bingo’ on entertainment channel Colors.
‘Abhishek is doing a show called ‘Bingo’ with us. It’s a very interesting [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Reliance BIG Pictures had been associated with the Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Raavana’ from day one, the company’s CEO Sanjeev Lamba said, denying reports that it had backed off from the Mani Ratnam directed project.
‘We are co-producing the film with Madras Talkies (Ratnam’s production house). We are associated with the [...]
Film: ‘Paa’; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal; Director: R. Balakrishnan; Rationg ** 1/2
When a director takes a road less travelled, it means risk and challenges. Director R. Balakrishnan’s ‘Paa’ journey was difficult but he achieved what he had set out to do — Amitabh Bachchan’s not recognisable in the role of [...]
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Bollywood actress Vidya Balan, who is playing Amitabh Bachchan’s mother in her forthcoming movie ‘Paa’, says that now she can proudly tell everyone that the 67-year-old megastar was her first child.
‘After this role, I can proudly tell my children and grandchildren that Big B was my first child. Not even [...]
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan are leaving no stone unturned to promote their upcoming films ‘Paa’ and ‘3 Idiots’ respectively – the two are meeting Sunday to discuss marketing gimmicks for both the films.
‘Paa’ is releasing Dec 4, while ‘3 Idiots’ hits the screens Dec 25.
‘Aamir comes over [...]
Mumbai, Nov 14 (IANS) The music event of upcoming movie ‘Paa’ that was scheduled for Children’s Day Saturday here was cancelled, thanks to workaholic composer Ilaiyaaraja who is not ready to break his ‘creative process to attend the function’.
Now, the sound tracks will hit the outlets Sunday without any formal release.
‘We had planned a formal [...]
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) A ghost, an eccentric theatre actor or a flamboyant genie, Amitabh Bachchan has done quite a few over-the-top roles and not delivered big hits in four years. But for filmmakers, the megastar is still a phenomenon they can’t wait to sign on.
‘I would love to cast him for all my [...]
Mumbai, Nov 6 (IANS) Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Shabana Azmi, Katrina Kaif and Suneil Shetty are among the Bollywood celebrities who have pledged support to a movement, Against Child Trafficking (A.C.T.).
A.C.T. aims to help mobilise people on the issue by raising awareness, preventing trafficking and supporting the efforts of child welfare organisations through [...]
Mumbai, Nov 5 (IANS) In a role reversal of sorts, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan needed to carry his father piggyback and trot across a vast field for a sequence in ‘Paa’. To the relief of director R. Balki, Abhishek simply breezed through the difficult scene.
‘Abhishek did it in one take. He carried his father [...]
Mumbai, Nov 5 (ANI): The fist-look of movie ‘Paa’ was released here on Wenseday.
The movie proved the role reversal of Bollywood’s most renowned father-son, Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan in the reel life.
The 67-year-old actor Bachchan would be playing the role of a 13-year old boy, diagnosed with Progeria.
His real life son Abhishek is playing [...]
Mumbai, Nov 5 (IANS) The film ‘Paa’, in which Amitabh Bachchan plays a patient of a rare disorder called progeria is not an educational movie, but in fact an ‘emotional story about a father and son’, says director R. Balki.
While promoting the film along with its stars Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan at an Andheri [...]
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) She celebrates her third birthday after marriage to actor Abhishek Bachchan and her megastar father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan has wished Aishwarya Rai a ‘long prosperous life’ on her 36th birthday Sunday.
‘We have… just brought in Aishwarya’s birthday and wished her love and happiness and a long prosperous life. It was just [...]
Kolkata, Oct 28 (ANI): Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan has said that he believes in doing one film at a time, which he considered an ideal formula.
He said this while speaking at an event to launch the Idea GSM services here today. [...]
Mumbai, Oct 13 (IANS) After chic and cool in ‘Dostana’, Abhishek Bachchan goes for a makeover in R. Balakrishnan’s ‘Paa’ — the actor will be seen mostly in white kurta-pyjamas in 90 percent of the movie, in which he is playing a politician.
Abhishek was quite content with the clothes he was made to wear for [...]
Bangalore, Sep. 30 (ANI): Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan promoted his upcoming film ‘Ravana’ at an event in Bangalore on Wednesday.
Abhishek Bachchan was in the city to promote a luxury watch brand.
The watch model is priced at 6,635 US dollars and can [...]
Nevada (US), Sept 30 (ANI): Bollywood’s star couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan discussed their family life on The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 28.
With about five billion fans globally, Filmfare Award winners Aishwarya Rai (Devdas), 35, and Abhishek Bachchan (Bunty Aur Babli), 33, described living with Abhishek’s parents as normal and absolutely natural.
Abhishek’s [...]
Mumbai, Sep 24 (IANS) Director R. Balakrishna’s eagerly-awaited role-reversal drama ‘Paa’, which has Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role, has been postponed by a month to avert a clash with the other Big B starrer ‘Teen Patti’.
Apparently Big B personally requested the producers of ‘Teen Patti’ to not allow it to clash with ‘Paa’, which [...]
