Big B will be all over B-town New Year with his diverse roles

After raking in all the praise for doing something as different as Paa, Amitabh will be all over B-town New Year with his diverse roles.

Big B enthralled audiences with his performance in R. Balki’s Paa. The film was tagged as one of the best films of 2009 and the type of hard work and effort Amitabh put into Paa was truly commendable. Director R Balki had spoken of his lead star, saying, “Whatever Amitji does, he does with such diligence. He went through hours of painstaking make-up without uttering a word, and is truly a through professional when it comes to work. He will go to the extents of perfecting his character, may it be make-up, persona or body language. Surely, they don’t make people like him any more.”

Big B will now be seen in Leena Yadav’s Teen Patti, Ram Gopal Varma’s Rann, Shujit Sarcar’s Shoebite, Pritish Nandy’s The Actor and Chandra Prakash Dwivedi’s Kunal Avadana, among several other announced films. However, the films that will surely release next year are Teen Patti and Rann with, perhaps, Shoebite and Kunal Avadana in the last quarter of 2010. In Teen Patti, which is rumoured to be the remake of the 2008 Hollywood blockbuster 21, Amitabh plays Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India who cracks a theory that could redefine the principles of probability and randomness. Amitabh spoke of his role in the movie, saying, “It is something I haven’t done before.

The meeting with Sir Ben Kingsley was something I truly cherished, and the entire aspect and storyline of the film intrigued me to the hilt.” Apart from Teen Patti, Bachchan will then be seen in Ramu’s Rann that revolves around the media war between news channels to get the news first, and goes behind the scenes in exposing how it’s done. Amitabh plays Vijay Harshwardhan Malik, the founder of the first-ever private news channel in the country - India 24/7. The Harvard-educated Malik is India’s most respected media personality. He is a hardcore upholder of journalistic ethics, and no wonder his channel is battling for survival. The film recently went through a major controversy when Ramu twisted the words of the national anthem for the title track of the movie.

However, his most talked about and highly anticipated next is Dwivedi’s Kunal Avadana, in which Bachchan plays Ashoka, along with Tabu, who plays Tishyarakshita. The film will have Big B and Tabu reuniting after their critically acclaimed Cheeni Kum(2007) in which audiences couldn’t rave more about the chemistry between the two. The film, however, is going to be made on a major budget, due to which the director has already begun to face trouble. However, it’s surely a known fact that Big B has quite an eventful calendar next year, and one can’t wait to see him in action again!

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