In India, people typically retire from work at 60, but by 83, talk of retiring from life begins. "What should we do now? We've done what we had to do, you guys take care of things..." These are the common refrains of elders in Indian homes at this age. Yet, at 83, Amitabh Bachchan, despite undergoing more than a dozen serious surgeries, enters the set of Kaun Banega Crorepati, running with youthful enthusiasm.
Mature actors have been active in Hindi cinema before. Ashok Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Om Prakash, Abhi Bhattacharya, Shri Ram Lagoo, and A.K. Hangal have also been essential to cinema, but a qualitative difference can be seen between their roles and Amitabh's. While he portrayed the helplessness and compulsions of adulthood in most films, Amitabh Bachchan, with films like Jhund, Gulabo Sitabo, Kalki, Piku, Pink, Satyagraha, Baghban, Waqt, Family, Sarkar, and Black, Nishabd, and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, tried to prove that life doesn't weaken with age; rather, experiences strengthen it.
Big B's real innings began after 2000.
In the coming days, when Amitabh Bachchan will be evaluated holistically, it will be difficult to decide whether he should be remembered as an angry young man or a vibrant adult. Even if one wants to forget Amitabh Bachchan's overall contribution, it will not be possible to forget him as a citizen who changed the age of activism.
Not surprisingly, the third and perhaps most important phase of Amitabh Bachchan's acting journey began after the year 2000, after he turned 60. If films like Mohabbatein, Aks, Baghban, Dev, Black, Sarkar, Nishabd, Cheeni Kum, The Last Lear, and Piku and Pink hadn't been part of Amitabh's career, he might have been as easily forgotten as Rajesh Khanna. However, Amitabh's acting prowess has always been characterized by his ability to excel, each time a little better than his previous film.
The year 2000 begins with Mohabbatein, and in 2001, audiences meet a new, mature, seasoned Amitabh Bachchan in Aks and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. He is honored with four Filmfare Awards in these two years. Whether it's the stubborn teacher in Black or the elderly man suffering from Alzheimer's, Amitabh's acting prowess is astonishing. Indeed, whether he portrays Ashwatthama in Kalki, Principal Narayan Shankar in Mohabbatein, DCP Dev Pratap Singh in Dev, Subhash Nagre in Sarkar, Deepak Sehgal in Pink, or Bhaskar in Piku, Amitabh manages to preserve his stardom while reinventing it.
He received National Film Awards for these films.
His talkativeness is special in Piku, while his silence is special in Pink. After Black in 2005, Amitabh Bachchan was announced as the recipient of the National Award for Best Actor in 2009 for Paa. Whenever it seemed like Amitabh's innings was over, he appeared ready for the next one. In 2016, Amitabh was again in the running for the National Film Award for his role in Piku. It could only be Amitabh who could be forced to share the Screen Award for Best Actor with an energetic actor like Ranbir Singh.
Even today, Amitabh Bachchan has maintained the tradition of coming out of his house, Jalsa, every Sunday to greet the audience, which he started in 1982. It truly seems that even God knows Amitabh's importance.
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