NO ONE CAN BE ANOTHER LIKE YOU , MR.AMITABH BACHCHAN

NO, NO ONE CAN BE ANOTHER LIKE YOU, MR.BACHCHAN

Ali Peter John.

            

                This is the same man whose name no one could easily pronounce once. This is the same man who had to struggle like very few young men have ever had to struggle. This is the same man who kicked a chair in a police station and shot to superstardom.This is the man who was known as the angry young man and was called the representative of an angry and restless generation.This is the same man who lived and died and lived again after a near-fatal accident.This is the same man who had battled ailments like severe asthma, peritonitis and myasthenia gravis and many others crippling malaises and over came all of them . This is the same man who entered politics only to call it a "cesspool"and quit politics never to return to it again . This is the same man who saw the end of his glorious empire (ABCL)and fought his way out like only a man who was the son of his father Dr.Harivanshrai Bachchan could.This is the same man who moved with the times and changed with the changing times.This is the same man who played Inspector Vijay in "Zanjeer "and Vijay , the smuggler in "Don"and the poet in "Kabhi Kabhie" and the lover in "Silsila"who is now playing the old man like he excelled in playing the character in the recently realease "Gulabo Sitabo"....

And like I say ,an actor like Amitabh Bachchan will always be an actor whether he is twenty, forty, sixty aur eighty and even beyond.....

I have just seen a very amazing and amusing video to prove my point about an actor who I have been following from his very first foray in films . It is a time when like every one else he too is to staying home because of the pandemic and the resulting lockdown .He has been at home for the last four months ,but Amitabh Bachchan has to be active because he is not just anyone ,he is Amitabh Bachchan who millions still expect to work wonders and miracles .He has been busy writing his interesting and topical blogs and tweets .He is reading scripts for the future and he is making hundreds of videos for different missions and to send messages across .

The video I am fascinated about is an attempt which could only be made by an actor who has never let the actor and the entertainer in him take a break .

He is dressed in a colorful combination of green and red with his famous grey beard and salt and pepper hair (they say he wears a wig, but I don't think such petty matters matter to a great actor)And he is wearing the kind of glares that any young man would think twice before wearing. The opening line of the video says that he is going to sing his version of the cult song ,"sar jo tera chakraye ya dil dooba jaye aaja pyaare pass hamare kaahe ghabraaye" orginally filmed on the versatile comedian Johnny Walker in Guru Dutt's "Pyaasa ".

The cult song has been improvised by any number of actors and singers .But the way Amitabh Bachchan has done it in his what I would like to believe is his humble tribute to Johnny Walker ,Mohammad Rafi and Sahir Ludhianvi, the profound poet who could even write a song like this .

The magic of the video is that Amitabh not only sings the song in his own unique way ,but he also provides all the sound effects by himself with almost every part of his face ,his lips and his hands and fingers to give the song a new life and meaning to suit the modern times .He taps his fingers ,he slaps his face, his face reacts to his slaps, he whistles, he hums and his face is in endless motion to bring every expression alive. It is supposed to be a song sung in what is called the capella form ,I don't know more about this form ,but if what Amitabh does with the song is that form it must be an interesting form.

Amitabh at seventy seven and going on seventy eight is in full flow and seems to be celebrating every moment of singing the song and bringing it to new life.

It was his way of using his time during this lockdown and what a way he has used his time, time which has always been his favourite friend and guiding force...

As I said and believe, a true actor can neither age nor wither. His (or her) talent just keeps growing, glowing and getting richer ,like gold with time and even time will think twice or many times before taking any decision about it.

Ps Amitabh was so carried away by the way the members of the Shillong Choir rendered this gem of a song that he invited the group on his show, KBC and sang with them.

I may be wrong ,but I found something very similar in some of the expressions of Amitabh and the members of the Choir who have sung and even performed to it with the kind of perfection difficult to describe. I mention this here for all those who are diffident and believe that some things in life are not possible.I have seen and heard the Choir and I say with all the emphasis that if those singers can sing the most difficult songs with such ease and confidence, then why can't many more sings be possible for many of us who stand back and let others move forward as they continue to believe that it is not possible .And they believe that even the impossible is possible.

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