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Making Amitabh Bachchan look scary
07th May 2008 22.40 IST
By Aparajita Ghosh

Getting into the get-up of a ghost in Bhoothnath used to be an arduous exercise for superstar Amitabh Bachchan .

This Friday’s release ‘Bhoothnath’ has Big B playing a friendly ghost who returns to life 20 years after his death. A lot of hard work had to be done to give the superstar a convincing look of a ghost.

The film’s director Vivek Sharma initially wanted Big B to have long hair. But the actor told him that his long-haired look would look similar to the one he had in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom . Heeding the advice, the director eventually settled for short, tousled hair.

This apart, a special whitener was used to give the superstar a pale complexion of a corpse. Since Big B’s character comes alive again after two decades, he was given tattered, ragged clothes to wear. In fact, when Vivek Sharma first showed the superstar the sketches of this unkempt look, Big B exclaimed: “Is it me?”

Big B also had to wear artificial long nails on his fingers. The nails were stuck with a gum that used to irritate the superstar, but he never complained.

Before every shooting, Mr. Bachchan used to sit for hours with his make-up man Deepak Sawant to get into the ghost’s makeover.

Sharma says the whole make-up session used to be laborious but the superstar was always gung-ho about it. Not just this, Sharma says Big B was also adamant on doing his stunts himself.

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