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i’ve grown bored with sanjay dutt. i’m turning my starry-eyed celebrity affections toward the unanimously proclaimed superstar of bollywood film: Amitabh Bachchan.
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i saw him recently in the movie boom<\/span><\/a> which i reviewed earlier.<\/a> bachchan was easily the best thing about the movie. well, other than the supermodels.<\/p>\n

so what makes this man<\/a> so cool? well, he’s the host of the indian version of "who wants to be a millionare" (translated idiomatically into hindi as "who wants to be bumped up a caste"). he got his start in showbiz because he got a personal letter of recommendation from PM Indira Ghandi. he even served in the indian parliament for a time, before something called "the swedish gun scandal". what is it with indian celebrities and the violence-implication scandals? but these days bachchan spends most of his time apologizing for the bad acting of his son, heartthrob Abhishek Bachchan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

he’s also cool because he’s a senior citizen and he’s still bopping around like a 30yr-old. he followed a similar career path to patrick mcgoohan, where he played an angry young man in the 70s, and then graduated into being a distinguished patriarch. but what’s really impressive is his baritone voice and his flawless command of english.<\/a> and apparently japanese<\/a>, german<\/a>, and arabic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

i bought a dvd because i recognized him on the cover:
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\nbut it didn’t look much like he does in the movie itself. and then it hit me, for the cover photo they took a picture of him from the 70s and photoshopped in a modern hairdo and his gray goatee.
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\nAKS<\/span> had some interesting action and music sequences (including a hypnotically PG strip-club dance), but then right when the villianous assassin transfers his soul into bachchan’s body (the sort of thing that must happen daily in a hindi\/buddhist culture), my DVD stopped working. and the DVD down at the video store stopped working in the exact same place. aaaargh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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