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No qualms about Nishabd: Big B
Amitabh said such movies should be viewed with a "psychological perspective" and not a "physical one".
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AGE NO BAR: Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a 60-year-old man in love with an 18-year-old girl in his new film Nishabd, said he had no qualms about essaying such characters (PTI Photo)
MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a 60-year-old man in love with an 18-year-old girl in his new film Nishabd, has said he had no qualms about essaying such characters as long as they are viewed with a "psychological perspective" and not a "physical one".
"I have no qualms playing a 60-year-old man in love with an 18-year-old girl because the film looks at the mental make-up of the character who finds himself in this situation," he told reporters at the launch of the music of Nishabd here on Saturday night.
"I believe Indian audiences are maturing fast and we have to thank them for pushing us to go beyond the escapist norms that we have followed. The more we go beyond these, it is better for us," said Bachchan, flanked by the film's director Ram Gopal Varma and debutante Jiah Khan who plays the teenager.
Asked whether he had thought of playing such roles before, he remarked, "I didn't get such roles before because I hadn't turn 60 before. But I am very happy that even at this stage of my career, I am still getting roles that excite and challenge me."
Varma, clarifying that his film was not inspired by Nabakov's Lolita, was all praise for his actor. "I wouldn't have made the film if he hadn't agreed to act in it.
"Besides the depth of acting that the actor was required to have, I wanted to use Bachchan's larger than life image to portray that if a man like him can lose control over his emotions, forgetting his responsibilities to his family at his age, what would be the mental trauma that he goes through," Varma said.
MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a 60-year-old man in love with an 18-year-old girl in his new film Nishabd, has said he had no qualms about essaying such characters as long as they are viewed with a "psychological perspective" and not a "physical one".
"I have no qualms playing a 60-year-old man in love with an 18-year-old girl because the film looks at the mental make-up of the character who finds himself in this situation," he told reporters at the launch of the music of Nishabd here on Saturday night.
"The movie should not be looked at from a physical or sexual point of view."
"I believe Indian audiences are maturing fast and we have to thank them for pushing us to go beyond the escapist norms that we have followed. The more we go beyond these, it is better for us," said Bachchan, flanked by the film's director Ram Gopal Varma and debutante Jiah Khan who plays the teenager.
Asked whether he had thought of playing such roles before, he remarked, "I didn't get such roles before because I hadn't turn 60 before. But I am very happy that even at this stage of my career, I am still getting roles that excite and challenge me."
Varma, clarifying that his film was not inspired by Nabakov's Lolita, was all praise for his actor. "I wouldn't have made the film if he hadn't agreed to act in it.
"Besides the depth of acting that the actor was required to have, I wanted to use Bachchan's larger than life image to portray that if a man like him can lose control over his emotions, forgetting his responsibilities to his family at his age, what would be the mental trauma that he goes through," Varma said.
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