Big B’s dilemma: What next after ‘Black’? 16th Feb 2005
21.12 IST
By Nitika Desai
It is said that when a man reaches a new height, he is left with fewer avenues to go further. This seems to be the dilemma of Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan after his movie Black .
It is a performance that has left people spellbound. Shah Rukh Khan couldn’t help touching Bachchan’s feet, while Sanjay Dutt missed the premiere of his own film Shabd to attend the premiere of ‘Black’ on the same day.
Urmila Matondkar couldn’t find enough words to compliment Bachchan’s performance, while veteran Dilip Kumar showered lavish praise on the superstar.
Bachchan says he is shocked at the adulation and praise he is getting from film fraternity. But, at the same time, he is in a fix. Where to go now? What better could follow after ‘Black’?
Amitabh reportedly told a scribe: “Sanjay Bhansali (film’s director) has put me in a monstrous dilemma. Where do I go after 'Black'? Nothing I do can match up. Nothing seems worth it...”
Bachchan’s recent shoot was a special qawwali number with son Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai for Shaad Ali’s movie Bunty Aur Babli . But it’s obvious that nothing can match the beauty of ‘Black’.
Perhaps Bachchan is right when he says that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has put him in a crisis. Nothing he does measures up to the standards he has set with ‘Black’. But then it is not for nothing that Bachchan calls Bhansali the best director he has worked with in his more than three decades in Bollywood.
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Big B’s dilemma: What next after ‘Black’?
