What Turns Can Career Challenges Take in Amitabh Bachchan’s Life?
|By- Alok Parekh|
A career of about 50 years in any field is a great success. Amitabh Bachchan, born with the name Inquilaab Srivastava has achieved the milestone with in-numerous financial, critical, physical and mental challenges in the entertainment industry. In 1969, he made his debut as a voice narrator in Bhuvan Shome. Our ‘Angry Young Man’ is the most nominated performer in any major category at Filmfare with 41 nominations overall. Usually known as Amitabh Bachchan, he is also referred to as ‘Shahenshah of Bollywood’, ‘Big B’ and ‘Star of the millennium’. Apart from his great stardom in India, he is also followed globally in markets including America, Russia, United Kingdom, the Middle East and many more.
I have always loved his films and I have grown up watching his films irrespective of their status at the Box Office. Everyone in my family adores him and his work. Especially me, I never miss any of his films even if I’ve watched them a lot of times earlier. In addition to being an actor, he is also a playback singer, a former politician, a producer, a composer and a television host. Being my favourite actor, I always try and learn each and everything that I can learn from him. Despite many failures at Box Office, he has never quit acting; this has always kept me motivated in achieving my goals.
The screenwriter duo Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan gave him his first film ‘Zanjeer’ (1973) as the lead actor. He won his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor for the film. The duo gave him a lot more films like ‘Sholay’ and ‘Deewaar’ that showed great success in the Box Office. He also did a lot of double role films and gained more stardom.
As his career started, so did his challenges. In 1982, while filming for one of his films ‘Coolie’, he was performing his stunts in a fight scene with co-actor Puneet Issar and he suffered a nearly fatal injury in his intestines and was on bed-rest for months. That was the time when along with medicines, the prayers of his fans helped him get back to work. The film was then released and due to such great publicity, it became the top-grossing film of that year.
Suddenly thereafter, his films started failing in the Box Office and he decided to step into politics. In his three-year of life in politics (1984- 1987), two of his blockbuster films ‘Mard’ and “Aakhree Raasta’ were released. As he stepped back into his acting career, some of his films again failed in the Box Office and then in 1990, he gave an amazing blockbuster ‘Agneepath’ which helped him get his another National Film Award for Best Actor.
Bachchan announced a semi-retirement for 5 years in 1992 and in 1996 he started his own production company ‘ABCL’ (Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd.). In 1997, he made his acting comeback in ‘Mrityudata’ produced by ABCL. The film failed in Box Office financially and critically and he had to shut his company. After the series of fiasco movies, he still made an attempt to save his career in acting. He came back with various successful movies like ‘Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan’, ‘Mohabbatein’, ‘Black’ and many more.
In addition to all these challenges, here comes another one for him; the worldwide digital release of his upcoming film ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ on Amazon Prime Videos on 12 June 2020. In this film, he is starring with the new-age Bollywood sensation Ayushmann Khurrana. How will he accept the challenge? Will his fans accept this challenge? What do you think about this?
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