The Bollywood Movie
SHAMITABH
Initial Release: 6 February, 2015 (UK)
Director: R. Balki
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Akshara Haasan, Dhanush, Rekha,
Abhinaya
Running time: 155 minutes
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Amitabh Bachan is no more an
actor when it comes to Bollywood-Shamitabh proves that he has become a brand.
Director R.Balki plays with that brand and comes up with his latest project
where the extremely talented Dhanush is teamed up with the great Amitabh Bachan
and the result is electrifying. In order to know Shamitabh, you must first know
Amitabh Bachan the man behind the actor. The man who had to face humiliation at
the hands of people at All India Radio, who was ridiculed by the then superstar
Rajesh Khana and the man with whom many refused to work because he was too
tall. In Shamitabh, the writer/director plays with the story of that Amitabh
aka Amitabh Sinha who helps Daanish portrayed by Dhanusha a cinema loving mute
bus conductor becomes a superstar. How? For what you will have to watch the
movie but let me tell you, the plot is very interesting in the first half. It
is the second half in which things go slow; although debutant actress Akshara
Haasan impressed with her acting skills but the film loses the plot and by the
time the credits arrive the viewers are way too bored. Had the flick been 20
minutes shorter it would have been a perfect homage to the great voice of Big
B, the voice that has mesmerized generations. The dialogues at the start of the
movie are any Bachan fans delight and there was no one in the cinema who didn’t
smile on the dialogue’
Tum mujhe wahan
dhoond rahay ho aur main tumhara kab
se yahan intezar kar raha hoon; on the whole Shamitabh is an all out
entertainer where the characters have been written with the actors in mind; the
actors have done well but the plot thins out at the end which shouldn’t have
happened. Big B deserved a better tribute… Big B doesn’t fail.
