Ab Tera Kya Hoga Big B ?
Imam Saheb’s words in the movie Sholay, “Do you know that the world’s heaviest burden is the weight of a son’s coffin on a father’s shoulder” was on Sallu’s mind as he sat there in a Jodhpur prison. He left victimized, he left discriminated against, but mostly he felt sorry for his parents. At that moment the thing that he wanted most, more than his own freedom, was to ease his parent’s pain. He knew he had to stay strong for his family’s sake. Hence when bail was granted, he stepped out of the prison looked straight at the forces that were keen to hold him down and sang as only he could, “Kitne Bhi Tum Karlo Sitam, Hans Hans Ke Sahege Hum. Yeh Pyar Honga Na Kum, Sanam Teri Kasam”. Once a hero, always a Hero, Sallu perseveres undeterred.
On landing in Bombay the first thing Sallu did (since Sholay’s dialogues were hounding him in prison) was pay a visit to his favorite theatre on Dargah Street to see RGV’s Aag. Sholay, co-written by his father along with Javed Akhtar was his favorite movie. One could say Salim-Javed were the real heroes of Sholay. But that would not be fair to Dharmendra (who was the hero of Sholay) or Amjad Khan (who’s name has become synonymous with Sholay) or Ramesh Sippy (Sholay is his finest work) and his crew of technicians. Sholay is without doubt one of the best movie ever made in Bollywood, even the sundry supporting cast of Sholay from A.K. Hangal (Imam Saheb) to Mac Mohan (Sambha) to Big B ( Dharmendra’s sidekick in Sholay) to Jagdeep (who can forget Soorma Bhopali) to Sachin (Ahmed) were just outstanding.
The problem with RGV’s Aag is that RGV thought that the hype and controversy surrounding any effort to remake an iconic movie like Sholay would be enough to sustain his venture. It appears that he paid more attention on generating & maintaining the hype than making the product. RGV’s Aag, unintentionally, is the Rosetta Stone by which we can look at SRK’s Don and see the brilliance of SRK and Farhan Akhtar. In a similar fashion we can re-visit Sarkar and Nisabdh through the prism of Aag and see the flaws in those movies. In any case, it is safe to say that Aag is proof of RGV’s delusion.
RGV once stated that Lil C was a better actor than Big B. After seeing Aag, Sallu agrees that Big B is worse than even Lil C. To say that Big B just hams through Aag is to give him too much credit. In most cases he makes faces that teenagers make and capture on their cell phone’s camera. Instead of the majesty of Amjad Khan we have the amateurish buffoonery of Allahbad’s very own Doodhwalah Bhaiya. Needless to say this is a new low for Big B, his performance in Aag is so bad that it makes even his performance in Hum Kaun Hai and Boom look good. Is it not ironical that within a short time we saw one movie, viz CDI, which proved that SRK is the best ever star actor in Bollywood worthy of a National Award, and on the other hand we also saw RGV’s Aag which cast fresh doubt on Big B’s talent and makes him a contender for the worst actor of the century.
To be fair, and Sallu is very fair, perhaps RGV was attempting to do a Quintin Tarantino. Perhaps Aag was supposed to be to Sholay what Jackie Brown was to Blackploitation movies. But that would require humor and RGV has hemorrhoids, skill and RGV has shit for brains. RGV is no Tarantino and should stop believing that. Aag is Sholay without its brilliance or fun. Hence forward RGV should just simply make a movie rather than attempt to prove how brilliant he is.
For the record, once again a Big B movie opened to empty halls. Sallu wondered, “Ab Tera Kya Hoga Kaalia Nakta Big B?“.
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well the problem with Big B that he still thinks he is a crowd puller which he is not.He should settle himeself with important cameos rather than the leading roles.
He should avoid doing movies with p[eople like RGV who makes movioes only for personal emotional reasons rather than any follproff rational cinematic vision.
RGV has gone mad in fact, in the quest of his lust he is spoiling some of the great talents of bollywood.
He gives one hit with one actor i.e.Sarkar and takes advantage of casting him insignificant/under developed roles to satisfy his ego and/or physycal lust towards new acresses.
I like the line where u describe Amitabh in Orginal Sholay.
‘Dharmendra’s side-kick in Sholay’
Very funny note ever read about Amitabh so far.
Leave the old man alone man..
well both the bacchans are complete wash outs at the BO.The media AND SOME FOOL PRODUCERS ARE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THIS.
I think Big B should End His career with Sarkar Raj
Well we can plan a huge survey on Big B Retirement Alteast that ll be effective
Big B listen to Us stop Doing Silly meaningless movies
to be fair i like Bigb doing diff. roles only he thing he should stop doing is promoting his son
Apart from promoting his son
I dint liked him doing all these movies except cheeni kum
RGV Ki AAG
Nishabd
Ek Ajnaabi
Eklavya
JBJ
he was good in nishabd and eklavya as far as acting was considered though films were bad
I nvr or none doubted Big B’s acting Ability Im jst asking him quit or shun away from such movies
yes he should stop doing this mocies and do more of the last lear and shatarams
Well Last lear can work as CHeeni Kum or may be it may not work
Talking about Shataram i dont thnk he got the central character Hz shud be doing some powerfull and different roles