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KollywoodThe two had worked together in 'Aakhree Raasta' that released in 1986.Digital NativeVeteran filmmaker and actor K Bhagyaraj had completed four decades in the film industry and wishes have been pouring in for him from all quarters. Joinin the list, actor Amitabh Bachchan too wished the director/actor. The star had posted on his blog: “A message to that prolific personality in the Tamil region K Bhagyaraj, a prolific director, producer, actor, music director, editor of a weekly - turning 40 years of his service to cinema.” It may be noted here that K Bhagyaraj had the opportunity to work with Amitabh Bachchan in Aakhree Raasta, which was released in 1986. The film was the remake of the Kamal Haasan starrer Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, which was scripted by Bhagyaraj and directed by Bharathiraja. Aakhree Raasta was a crime drama film written and directed by K Bhagyaraj and was presented by T Rama...

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To celebrate the 71st birthday of Bollywood royalty Mr. Amitabh Bachchan; BollySpice has put together a special feature which looks at the actor’s greatest moments. When we think of Amitabh Bachchan, there are many classic films, songs and scenes that come to mind but we also wanted to shine the light on some of the other favourites that we have. Read on to check out what made it onto our list!

Entrance Scene: Mard – Every Amitabh movie had heroic entry scenes, with audiences often having to wait for up to half an hour of the film until Amitabh entered. Always innovative and awe inspiring – Coolie, Hum, Toofan, Agneepath…but for our favourite pick we’ll have to go for Mard. Our hero awakes from his siesta to see an old and helpless lady being dragged to her death, caught up alongside a car, which is being erratically driven by the rich,...

Every major actor and actress in Bollywood will at one stage attempt the double role. It is up there on every distinguished star’s curriculum vitae. There a countless examples Hum Dono (Dev Anand), Ram aur Shyam (Dilip Kumar), Seeta aur Geeta (Hema Malini), Apu Raja (Kamal Hassan), Chaalbaaz (Sri Devi), Kishan Kanhaiya (Anil Kapoor) and many many more. In addition to these we have Amitabh Bachchan’s own contributions to the double role genre, but to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema and its great tradition of double roles, we thought we would choose a slightly different film – Mahaan.

A triple role! Now that is is a completely different level and there is only one actor, the superstar of Indian cinema, who has truly attempted and achieved that – Amitabh Bachchan. Father, son and son – that was Mahaan. The father donned a beard, one son a moustache, the other clean shaven.