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There’s more work I have to finish: Bachchan after receiving Phalke honour

11:49 pm December 29, 2019

New Delhi: Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipient, megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Sunday said he is looking forward to doing more work in the future. The 77-year-old actor, who was bestowed with the honour by President Ram Nath Kovind here at Rashtrapati Bhawan, quipped that initially when he was announced as 2018’s honouree he was doubtful if […]

50 years of Bachchan: Actor for all seasons and many generations

4:45 pm November 8, 2019

Mumbai: Fifty years ago, on November 7, 1969, a gangly, too tall actor appeared on the big screen in the under-appreciated “Saat Hindustani”. It was cinema history in the making but nobody really knew it until many years later. Half a century later, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas’ film is watched and critiqued again and again as […]