Tuesday 31 January 2012

Amitabh Bachchan takes joy in flying kites

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan bowled over by walled city heritage

AHMEDABAD: It was for the first time that Khadia saw the superstar drive through its lanes and for Amitabh Bachchan it was his first drive in the pols of the walled city of Ahmedabad.

"Amazing" was what he could just say after seeing the heritage of the walled city. Bachchan was in the area to shoot for the " Khushboo Gujarat ki" campaign. A scene of Uttarayan was created so that the superstar could shoot for the advertisement titled "Fairs and Festival of Gujarat."

Amitabh Bachchan takes joy in flying kites

Amitabh Bachchan Flying Kite

Mega star Amitabh Bachchan, who is shooting in Gujarat for an ad campaign on tourism, said that flying kites for the shoot was full of fun and nostalgia, as he enjoyed the activity after a gap of almost 60 years.

Bachchan, who is the brand ambassador of Gujarat Tourism, is currently shooting for the second phase of 'Khushbu Gujarat Ki', a television ad campaign. The campaign includes Ahmedabad's famous kite-flying festival, for which, the mega star flew kites.

"Flew kites after almost 60 years! Shooting Uttarayan festival for tourism...such fun and nostalgia of School days !!,” Bachchan wrote on twitter.

The actor also posted a few pictures of himself enjoying the kite-flying activity and the crowd cheering him.

"Kite flying... on the roof, chanting and screaming of those around, bells, thali sound and the kite,"Bachchan said.

"People of Gujarat! A personal thank you for your love and affection, unpolluted, unreserved and filled with only love !!,” he said.

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan performs 'shradh' for his mother

AHMEDABAD: It was not a routine advertisement shoot on Monday, as superstarAmitabh Bachchan was shooting a shradh (a special prayer ceremony for the departed soul) at Sidhpur. The superstar was actually performing the ritual for his mother.
Bachchan's mother, Teji Bachchan, had passed away in December 2007 following prolonged illness. "According to Hindu religion, it is believed that shradh offerings to paternal ancestors should be made in Gaya, and similarly, offerings for the maternal ones should be performed at Sidhpur. Sidhpur is known as 'Matru Gaya'," said a tourism department official.
Bachchan was to shoot an advertisement campaign as a part of Khushboo Gujarat Ki to promote Sidhpur as a destination where people can come annually to perform the rituals for their deceased maternal ancestors.
Officials said that while performing the rituals, he was emotional and deeply engaged. "Usually, for a commercial shoot, he performs for three to four minutes. But he stayed there for nearly five hours performing each and every ritual as per tradition," said the official.
Bachchan, who was also in Khadia in the city on Sunday flying kites, has mentioned in his blog how he got nostalgic while flying kite. It was perhaps after 60 years that he had indulged in kite flying. "And cut my fingers too with the 'manjha', the crushed glass swiped thin thread that propels the kite into the air," he wrote in his blog. Bachchan was seen using first aid treatment for his cut finger.
About Khadia, he blogged that it was one of the most congested regions of the city, which actually offered the right atmosphere for the shot. He mention about kite cutting that the competition starts from the other roofs, the idea is a competition of how to get rid of the other persons kite.
He describes how there is jubilation when there is a 'victory in the air'and how in Allahabad in UP, his folks would celebrate the moment shouting - "woh kaata!!" (There, we've cut it)
He also mentions in the blog that it was difficult to control emotions. "The mass of people, struggling, pushing and fighting the security! Their happy faces and shouts of ecstasy were just so much to be thankful for," wrote Bachchan.

Year	Film Name	Cast
2011	BBUDDAH...HOGA TERRA BAAP	Amitabh Bachchan, Raveena Tandon, Hema Malini, Minissha Lamba, Sonal Chauhan, Neha Sharma, Sonu Sood
2011	AARAKSHAN	Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, Manoj Bajpai, Deepika Padukone, Prateik Babbar, Tanvi Azmi, Hema Malini
2011	F.A.L.T.U	Jackky Bhagnani, Puja Gupta, Angad Bedi, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Amitabh Bachchan, R. Madhavan, Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh, Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Salman Khan, Sushmita Sen, Mallika Sherawat, Akbar Khan, Arshad Warsi
2010	RANN	Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sudeep, Manisha Koirala, Rajat Kapoor, Gul Panag, Raima Sen, Mohnish Behl, Rajpal Yadav, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Alok Nath, Neena Kulkarni, Simone Singh, Neetu Chandra, Rahul Pendkalkar
2010	TEEN PATTI	Amitabh Bachchan, Ben Kingsley,R. Madhavan, Raima Sen, Saira Mohan, Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher, Vaibhav Talwar
2009	ALADIN	Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ratna Pathak, Mita Vashishth, Joy Sengupta, Arif Zakaria,, Victor Banerjee
2009	PAA	Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Paresh Rawal, Arundhati Naag, Taruni Sachdeva, Pratik Katare, Nimit Dhaiya, Varun Shukla, Dhruvin Doshi, Karan Bhiwandkar, Gaurav Bajaj
2008	BHOOTHNATH	Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Rajpal Yadav, Tejas Are, Vijay Nath, Satish Shah, Aman Siddiqui, Aashish Chaudhary, Nauheed Cyrusi
2008	GOD TUSSI GREAT HO	Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Manisha Koirala, Rukhsar, Sohail Khan, Satish Kaushik, Priyanka Chopra, Anupam Kher, Dalip Tahil, Sanjay Mishra, Bina Kak
2008	SARKAR RAJ	Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Tanisha Mukherjee, Victor Banerjee, Govind Namdeo
2008	THE LAST LEAR	Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Shefali Shah, Jishu Sengupta, Divya Dutta
2007	EKLAVYA	Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Jackie Shroff, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Jimmy Shergill, Raima Sen, Boman Irani
2007	NISHABD	Amitabh Bachchan, Revathy, Aftab Shivdasani, Jiah Khan
2007	SHOOTOUT AT LOKHANDWALA	Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Tusshar Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Rohit Roy, Sammir Dattani, Shabbir Aluwalia, Sunil Shetty, Neha Dhupia, Diya Mirza, Amrita Singh, Aarti Chabria, Rakhi Sawant, Abhishek Bachchan, Neha Dhupia,Diya Mirza
2007	CHEENI KUM	Amitabh Bachchan, Tabbu, Paresh Rawal, Zohra Sehgal
2007	JHOOM BARABAR JHOOM	Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol, Preity Zinta, Lara Dutta
2007	RAM GOPAL VARMA KI AAG	Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Sushmita Sen, Urmila Matondkar, Mohanlal, Sunil Shetty, Rajpal Yadav, Nisha Kothari, Prashant Raj, Gaurav Kapur, Sushant Singh, Abhishek Bachchan, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Sachin, Virendra Saxena, Rasika Joshi, Sanjay Narvekar, Zakir Hussain, Ravi Kale, J. D. Chakravorty
2006	DARNA ZAROORI HAI	Amitabh Bachchan,Ritesh Deshmukh, Anil Kapoor, Mallika Sherawat , Manoj Pahwa, Randeep Hooda, Zakir Hussain, Sunil Shetty, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav, Bipasha Basu, Arjun Rampal, Makrand Deshpande
2006	KABHI ALVIDA NAA KEHNA	Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Kiron Kher, Arjun Rampal, Kajol, John Abraham
2006	ZAMAANAT	Amitabh Bachchan, Karishma Kapoor, Arshad Warsi , Anupam Kher, Tinu Anand, Sharat Saxena, Shivaji Satam, Satyaprakash, Govind Namdeo, Ayub Khan, Prakash Raj, Raju Mavani
2006	BAABUL	Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee, John Abraham, Parmeet Sethi, Om Puri, Aman Verma, Rajpal Yadav, Smita Jaykar, Avtar Gill, Gargi Patel
2005	BUNTY AUR BABLI	Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Amitabh Bachchan, Tania Zaetta
2005	PAHELI	Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Juhi Chawla, Sunil Shetty, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajpal Yadav, Anupam Kher
2005	WAQT	Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Shefali Shah, Boman Irani
2005	BLACK	Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Ayesha Kapoor, Shernaz Patel, Dhritiman Chaterji, Nandana Sen, Sillo Mahava, Mahabanoo Mody
2005	VIRUDDH	Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, John Abraham, Sanjay Dutt, Prem Chopra, Sharat Saxena, Sachin Khedekar, Bipasha Basu
2005	SARKAR	Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Supriya Pathak, Rukhsar, Katrina Kaif, Tanisha Mukherjee, Virendra Saxena, Carran Kapur.
2005	DIL JO BHI KAHEY	Amitabh Bachchan, Revathy, Karan Sharma, Annabelle Wallace, Bhoomika Chawla, Malcolm Stoddard, Claire
2005	EK AJNABEE	Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Perizaad Zorabian, Vikram Chatwal, Dayashankar Pandey, Akhilendra Mishra, Baby Rucha Vaidya
2005	FAMILY	Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Aryeman
2004	VEER-ZAARA	Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani, Kirron Kher, Divya Dutta, Manoj Bajpai, Anupam Kher, Zohra Sehgal
2004	AB TUMHARE HAWALE WATAN SATHIYO	Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, (introducing) Divya Khosla, Sandali Sinha, Nagma, Aarti Chabria, Vivek Shauq, Kapil Sharma, Surendra Pal Singh, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Rajesh Vivek, Govind Namdeo, Danny, Ashutosh Rana
2004	HUM KAUN HAI	Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Dharmendra, Moushumi Chatterjee, Hansika Motwani, Master Amman
2004	KYUN! HO GAYA NA...	Vivek Oberoi, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Kajal Aggarwal
2004	DEEWAAR	Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Amrita Rao, Tanuja
2004	LAKSHYA	Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan, Priety Zinta, Boman Irani
2004	DEV	Amitabh Bachchan, Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Om Puri, Amrish Puri
2004	AETBAAR	Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Pramod Moutho, Tom Alter, Shruti Ulfat, Ali Asgar
2003	BAGHBAN	Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Mahima Choudhary, Aman Verma, Samir Soni, Sahil Chadda, Nasir, Rimi Sen, Paresh Rawal, Lilete Dubey, Sharat Saxena, Suman Ranganathan, Divya Dutta, Samir Soni
2003	BOOM	Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Javed Jaffri, Zeenat Aman, Gulshan Grover, Madhu Sapre, Padma Lakshmi, Katrina Kaif, Boman Irani
2003	ARMAAN	Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, Randhir Kapoor, Aamir Bashir
2002	AANKHEN	Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Sushmita Sen, Bipasha Basu, Paresh Rawal, Aditya Pancholi, Kashmira Shah
2002	AGNI VARSHA	Jackie Shroff, Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna, Raveena Tandon, Milind Soman, Sonali Kulkarni, Deepti Bhatnagar, Prabhu Deva, Mohan Agashe
2002	KAANTE	Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Kumar Gaurav, Mahesh Manjrekar, Lucky Ali, Malaika Arora
2002	HUM KISISE KUM NAHIN	Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan
2001	AKS	Amitabh Bachchan, Nandita Das, Raveena Tandon, Manoj Bajpai
2001	EK RISHTAA	Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee Gulzar, Akshay Kumar, Karishma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Sunil Shetty, Mohnish Bahl, Simone Singh, Alok Nath, Shakti Kapoor, Sharat Saxena, Avtar Gill
2001	KABHI KUSHI KABHI GHAM	Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Jaya Bachchan, Jugal Hansraj, Rani Mukherjee, Farida Jalal, Sushma Seth, Johnny Lever, Himani Shivpuri, Simone Singh, Alok Nath, Parzan Dastur, Samir Soni
2000	MOHABBATEIN	Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Preeti Jhangiani, Kim Sharma, Shamita Shetty, Jimmy Shergill, Jugal Hansraj, Uday Chopra, Anupam Kher, Archana Puran Singh, Amrish Puri, Helan, Parzan Dastur, Shefali Shah

1999	TUMHARE LIYE	Govinda, Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Urmila Matondkar
1998	LAL BADSHAH	Amitabh Bachchan, Manisha Koirala, Shilpa Shetty, Nagma
1998	BADE MIYAN CHOTE MIYAN	Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Madhuri Dixit
1998	MAJOR SAAB	Amitabh Bachchan, Nafisa Ali, Ajay Devgan, Sonali Bendre
1997	MRITYUDAATA	Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Arbaaz Ali Khan, Karishma Kapoor
1992	KHUDA GAWAH	Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Danny Denzongpa
1991	INDRAJIT	Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Neelam Kothari
1991	AJOOBA	Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia
1991	AKELA	Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Amrita Singh
1991	HUM	Amitabh Bachchan, Kimi Katkar, Rajnikant, Govinda
1990	AGNEEPATH	Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny, Neelam Kothari
1990	AAJ KA ARJUN	Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Raadhika, Sridevi
1989	JADUGAR	Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Prada, Aditya Panscholi
1986	AAKHRI RAASTA	Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan
1984	INQUILAB	Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan
1982	SHAKTI	Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil
1982	SATTE PE SATTA	Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Macmohan
1981	NASEEB	Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Shatrughan Sinha
1978	TRISHUL	Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini
1974	KASAUTI	Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan, Pran
1973	GEHRI CHAAL	Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra, Hema Malini