Amitabh Bachchan – Very Proud father of a very talented son.. Hats off to abhishek for a powerful performance in Guru..
A content and proud Big B speaks on Abhisheks performance in Guru and why he has lost to his son.
You finally saw Guru. Please let me have your comments on the film. Would you like to work with Mani. I believe you came close to working with him in the past.
Yes I saw Guru and I’ve asked to see it again today and I shall want to see it a 100 times over. It is fantastic. It is Mani’s best. And I speak as a viewer, not as a father. Abhishek is phenomenal. I have held myself back on many an occasion from commenting on my son’s work, but this time I shall not.
To hell with niceties and restraint. Abhishek is incredible !! I have been choked with emotion ever since I have emerged from the theatre and still am. This is a role of a lifetime for him and he has given a performance of a lifetime. It’s a role any actor worth his salt would die for and it’s a performance that any actor worth his salt will envy.
This is the truth, because it comes from within. For someone so young in age and in profession, to have performed the way he has is a revelation. It is the culmination of the strife of Abhishek to prove himself in the face of continuing odds and innuendos.
And it is ironic, so so ironic, that this is what the film Guru is all about. The determination, the will and the strength of a common man to succeed in the face of unending obstacles and his unfaltering courage of conviction, to come out victorious.
I’ve never heard you like this before!
My father wrote in his biography ‘When a father looses to his son, it is his greatest victory!’ Subhash, I’ve lost to my son ! And I’m the happiest father alive !!
ABHISHEK IS MY SON !! As for working with Mani I called him last night after the showing and told him, ‘Now that you have made my son’s life, could you make mine as well, please ?’
How has the year started for you? What do you foresee for yourself in 2007?
I don’t wish to foresee anything for myself. I have already foreseen what I want to see, last night !!