Amitabh Bachchan’s 80th birthday: Daughter Shweta shares a heartwarming wish for her ‘grand old man’ with a photo dump

October 11 this year marks the 80th birthday of legendary Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan. Among many others, it’s her daughter Shweta Bachchan who wrote a heartwarming birthday note for him. While taking to her official social media handle, Shweta dropped a photo dump, featuring a few unseen photos of the Shahenshah.

On the other hand, Shweta wrote a Punjabi poem in her caption along with “To my grand old man Happy 80th Birthday”. In one of the images, Amitabh can be seen walking hand-in-hand with toddler Shweta. The multiple-picture post on Shweta’s Instagram handle garnered love from Bachchan’s fans.

Among many others, Soha Ali Khan, Angad Bedi, Navya Naveli Nanda, Hrithik Roshan, Maheep Kapoor, Neha Dhupia and Zoya Akhtar also reacted to the post while wishing the megastar a happy birthday. “Beautiful post Shweta exclaimed a fan, while another called him “the King of India”. The comments section was flooded with red-heart emoticons.

 

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Interestingly, the previous post on Shweta’s Instagram media feed is also dedicated to her actor father. In the throwback picture, little Shweta can be seen posing with a smile as dad Amitabh lifts her up. In the short yet sweet caption, she wrote, “As the song goes … “but you love me daddy” & I you”.

Not only Shweta, but the entire India is celebrating the Don actor’s 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, the Film Heritage Foundation along with PVR Cinemas has announced a four-day film festival. In the film festival, Bachchan Back To The Beginning, presented 11 films of Big B over 22 theatres all around India. The list includes Kabhie Kabhie, Amar Akbar Anthony, Namak Halaal, Abhimaan, Deewar, Mili, Satte Pe Satta, and Chupke Chupke.

Also Read: Amitabh Bachchan turns 80: Ananya Panday falls short of words to describe the experience of watching ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’; pens a heartfelt note

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Amitabh Bachchan turns 80: Ananya Panday falls short of words to describe the experience of watching ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’; pens a heartfelt note

The story of the evolution of the Hindi film industry will always be incomplete without the mention of megastar Amitabh Bachchan. Today, on October 11, Big B turned 80. Therefore, the Film Heritage Foundation along with PVR Cinemas organised a four-day film festival ahead of Bachchan’s birthday.

Among many fans and celebrities, Bollywood actress Ananya Panday also experienced the sheer joy of seeing Amitabh’s film on the big screen. To share her experience and wish the legendary actor on his birthday, Panday took to her official social media handle and posted a video along with a heartfelt note. The video is a collage of multiple small clips from Ananya’s visit to a PVR cinema.

Meanwhile, in the note, the SOTY 2 actress wrote, “ HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEGEND ???? I got to watch ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ in theatres in 2022 with my Papa who had seen it 20 times in theatres when it released in 1977 / we got to experience the film with the best @azmishabana18 ji watching the film with us (you can hear someone screaming – woh ladki idhar hai – when she comes on screen).”

The Pati Patni Aur Woh actress further added, “We miss you, it was magical seeing you on screen Rishi ji, Vinod ji & Parveen ji ???????? love you @neetu54 ji / I can’t even begin to describe the feeling of watching this film in cinemas a houseful theatre – everyone cheering, whistling, dancing, singing, mouthing dialogues and celebrating the magic that is Amit Ji and the movies.” She also thanked Film Heritage Foundation and PVR Cinemas for organising the film festival.

 

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For the unversed, the film festival named Bachchan Back To The Beginning was placed on 172 stages and 30 screens spread over 22 theatres all around India. It presented Kabhie Kabhie, Amar Akbar Anthony, Namak Halaal, Abhimaan, Deewar, Mili, Satte Pe Satta, and Chupke Chupke, among others.

Team Bollywood Hungama also wishes the megastar of India a very happy birthday!

Also Read: Amitabh Bachchan to get a special tribute from fans; his birthday will be celebrated at midnight in cinemas

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Amitabh Bachchan was once replaced overnight by Sanjay Khan in a film! Here’s how

It  happens only in India, goes a Govinda song. These words never seem truer than when applied to the incidents that happen in Bollywood. But even by the unpredictable standards of the Indian entertainment industry, this one takes the cake and the  bakery.

It happened  in  early 1970s when Amitabh Bachchan, fresh  raw and struggling for a foothold, signed  a potboiler titled Duniya Ka Mela. The film  was directed by Kundan Kumar; a  little-known name today, but a biggish gun in the 1960s and 70s, Kundan Kumar helmed  musical hits like  Ganga Maiya Tohe Piyari Chadhaibo (1962, India’s first Bhojpuri  blockbuster), Aulad (1968, the  Jeetendra-Babita starrer best-known for the comedic song Jodi hamari  jamegi kaise) , Pardesi (1970, a slinky Mumtaz dancing to Chitragupta’s hit tunes) and Anokhi Ada (Jeetendra-Rekha’s first hit together).

In 1973, before  Amitabh Bachchan’s Zanjeer turned him overnight  into India’s biggest  star, Kundan Kumar launched Duniya Ka Mela with Rekha and a struggler named Amitabh Bachchan. Distributors  advised Kundan Kumar against what they saw as a foolhardy move. Until that  point of time Amitabh had featured only in a few films such as like Saat Hindustani, Pyar Ki Kahani, Bombay To Goa ,Parwana and Gehri Chaal. In the last two mentioned films AB Sr. played  villainous roles and was seriously thinking of trying his luck as a villain, a la Shatrughan Sinha.

But Kundan stuck to his guns. He  even shot a romantic duet Yeh chehra yeh zulfen jadoo sa kar rahe hain  composed by the hit-makers Laxmikant-Pyarelal, and filmed on  Rekha and the almost-newcomer Amitabh Bachchan. This is when the  distributors  threatened  to  back out of the project. They advised Kundan   Kumar to get rid of the semi-newcomer and replace him with someone more viewer-friendly.

Bachchan was then sacked overnight, and not even informed properly of his  loss. He was replaced by the then-hot and saleable Sanjay Khan (who  appeared in films as only ‘Sanjay’ in the credit titles back then!) Sanjay (with or without the Khan) had delivered a slew of  successes  in the  late 60s and early 70s.

By the time Duniya Ka Mela was released in 1974 , Sanjay  Khan’s career was on the downslide and Amitabh Bachchan after Zanjeer  took over the entire entertainment  industry.

The same duet song from Duniya  Ka Mela, which turned out as a flop,  was shot with Bachchan and Rekha. However it was once again re-shot with Sanjay and Rekha.

Technically Duniya Ka Mela is  the  first  Amitabh-Rekha starrer, although the one that released first with them  in the lead was Do Anjaane in 1976  (where believe it not, Rekha elopes with Prem Chopra after marrying Amitabh Bachchan).

Speaking of the experience Amitabh Bachchan says he holds absolutely no grudges. “I was grappling with flops. I was grateful that they even considered me for the film. I was  replaced by Mr. Sanjay Khan who was  big star during those times.”

Also Read: Amitabh Bachchan to get a special tribute from fans; his birthday will be celebrated at midnight in cinemas

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Photos: Mugdha Godse and Rahul Dev attend the cover unveiling of the magazine Society Interiors and Designs

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Kanye West’s social media accounts get restricted following backlash over antisemitic posts

After sharing antisemitic posts on social media, Kanye ‘Ye’ West, has had both his Twitter and Instagram accounts restricted following a series of antisemitic posts.

According to a report by Variety, the restriction comes after West took to Twitter after facing a similar restriction on Instagram. The musician Donda rapper shared two tweets that have largely been criticized as antisemitic. The first post – where West claimed that he couldn’t be antisemitic and said he had been “toyed with” by the Jewish people – has since been deleted by Twitter for “violating the Twitter rules.”

“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death [sic] con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” West wrote in the now-deleted post. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also. You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” A second post, shared closely after the first, remains public on Twitter: “Who do you think created cancel culture?”

Who you think created cancel culture?

— ye (@kanyewest) October 9, 2022

Earlier on October 7, West had shared a screenshot of a message, in a now-deleted post, which he had allegedly sent to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, in which he wrote, “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me. I told you this was war.” Soon after, Instagram restricted his account and deleted the content for a violation of its policies.

Per the report, a Meta spokesperson confirmed the decision sharing that temporary restrictions on posting, commenting and messaging are standard practice for accounts that regularly violate the social media platform’s policies. The company did not indicate which specific posts were the cause behind the restriction.

Following the backlash on Instagram, West took to Twitter calling out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his restriction from the platform and wrote, “Look at this Mark How you gone kick me off Instagram You used to be my ni**a” Replying to the rapper, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote, “Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!”

Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2022

Also Read: Gigi Hadid slams Kanye West for insulting Vogue editor Gabrielle Karefa-Johnson after she criticized his ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirts

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Box Office: Goodbye and Vikram Vedha are theatrical flops, PS-1 (Hindi) helps with bonus numbers

It has been a disappointing last couple of Fridays as both Goodbye and Vikram Vedha have emerged as theatrical flops at the box office. It was expected that Vikram Vedha would do good business since the original was a success and the remake was quit faithful to it as well, but that was not the case to be. On the other hand, Goodbye could have been a coverage affair at least with some respectable numbers coming in, but that did not happen either. As a result, after all the good work done by Brahmastra, it’s back to minimal footfalls for last 10 days.

Goodbye could just now grow over the weekend and its total stands at Rs. 4 crores*. This is extremely low and less than even first day numbers of Piku which had a similar set up and had collected Rs. 5.58 crores on its first day. For this Vikas Behl directed film, a weekend of Rs. 10 crores was expected at a bare minimum but the numbers that have come in are less than half of that which is quite disheartening.

On the other hand, amongst holdover released, Vikram Vedha has remained low as well with just Rs. 5 crores* been collected on Sunday. The trending between Friday and Saturday was good and then Sunday was better. One just waits to see whether the film stay stable now on the weekdays or would there be a decline when compared to Friday. Still, At most, at least Rs. 6 crores more would now come in till Thursday, and that would help push its total beyond the Rs. 75 crores mark. So far, the film has collected Rs. 70 crores*.

As for PS-1 (Hindi), the film is having its small little run at select properties. The film now stands at Rs. 18.65 crores* and would eventually have a lifetime beyond Rs. 25 crores. That would allow it to be an average affair eventually, which is not bad at all especially in the current times.

*Estimates. Final numbers awaited

Note: All collections as per production and distribution sources

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Photos: Tamannaah Bhatia and Shehnaaz Gill snapped at the airport

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