Long time Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan, who turns 82 on Friday, has spoken of how he became a "angry young man."
Big B is one of the biggest megastars of India, having cultivated an audience across age groups and strata of society. The actor rose to prominence with his image of the "angry young man" character template created by the legendary screenwriting duo Salim-Javed.
But seems Big B started playing like an angst-ridden angst of young man from a very young age.
Recently, superstar Aamir Khan with his son Junaid was recently seen on the quiz-based reality show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' anchored by Big B. On this episode, a probably an inexplicable thing to be seen, teary-eyed Amitabh Bachchan rose from the seat and walked back home telling his mother Teji Bachchan that some friends of his had beaten him up.
Looking at her poor boy, then social activist Teji Bachchan told him to go back and beat up those boys, and empowering the young Big B not to let anybody take him for granted. Big B said he went back and beat the pulp out of those boys.
It was the birth of the angry young man, Aamir laughed referring to the story being narrated by Amitabh Bachchan.
Aamir also presented evidence of being Amitabh Bachchan's biggest fan as he handed him a wedding invitation card, and the 'Ghajini' actor then told him, "I have provided evidence for being the number 1 fan of yours.".
Big B, who ruled the silver screen in the middle of the 1970s and through most of the early 1980s, has many ardent fans in India and the diaspora community because of his cult as a megastar and his iconographic image of the "angry young man" of the 1970s.
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