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BOLLYWOOD - East Meets West ...Amitabh Bachchan in America

Which film star has over a billion fans? Whose latest film, released last week, has gone straight into the cinema charts at No 3, pipped to the post only by Harry Potter and Samuel L Jackson's 51st State? Tom Cruise? Nope. Arnold Schwarzenegger? Wrong again. In fact it is the 59-year-old veteran of Bollywood spectaculars, Amitabh Bachchan. It is not surprising that this swarthy pin-up graces the walls of many dwellings on the Indian subcontinent. What is surprising is that he may be about to find similar fame over here. For Bollywood movies are catching on in the West..(Amitabh Bachchan appeared on Charlie Rose show on American TV channel - PBS)
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Bachchan's latest blockbuster, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham . . . (or K3G as it has been dubbed for ease of reference), follows hot on the heels of Asoka - another runaway success that completed its national run. That's right, films starring Indians speaking in their mother tongue and breaking into song and dance every five minutes have suddenly become culturally acceptable.
It is a development we couldn't have imagined 30 years ago.

Back then in my north London ghetto, Asian culture had begun to assert itself but it was nowhere near the mainstream. Local cinemas would squeeze in Hindi movies on a Sunday morning before the main programme. Old Datsuns would drive past with high-pitched wailing blasting from the stereo. But that was it.

K3G is cool. The soundtrack features Lata Mangeshkar, India's greatest playback singer. Her sister, Asha Bhosle - deified in the band Cornershop's recent club hit and chart-topper, Brimful of Asha.

It's everywhere, you see, the influence. The west and the east have, after all, enjoyed a love affair for centuries - in terms of oppressor and oppressed. But neither side wanted to sever those ties, merely to create an equivalence. It arrived in the 1970s and was called multiculturalism.

Nowadays it is more popularly thought of as political correctness and has become a subject for derision among people of my generation. But the young have absorbed it. Which is why when i told young children, I was rewriting the story of Rama and Sita, they nodded sagely and gave the salient points. "How can one possibly know that?" I asked. It turned out to be part of the national curriculum in Year 2.

And now, in the arts, we have a consolidation of those changes; the two sides have finally caught up with each other at a populist level. Bollywood has taken the best from both worlds, spanning literature, music, film and theatre, and is spawning something exciting and new - this was the year that the golden lion award in Venice went to Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding.

From those days in the 1960s we have moved from the paternalistic veneration of all things eastern - viz, George Harrison - through the Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language awkwardness of the 1970s, past the vigour and sheer joy of My Beautiful Launderette in the 1980s - all western-led - to a new understanding where the east has its own authority.

Great literature is now not only Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth who left over there for over here, but also Arundhati Roy and Vikram Chandra who remain over there. Great films are not just art-house Satyajit Ray but also big-budget Bollywood - Asoka and K3G.

America has witnessed a similar change with the burgeoning Latin movement: Hollywood and the music industry suddenly noticed the influences that had been there all the time; they just needed synthesising with the mainstream. Now J-Lo and Antonio Banderas are showbusiness icons, Benicio Del Toro won an oscar for his role in Traffic, and Ricky Martin and the whole Latin sound have set the charts ablaze. Everybody salsas now. For it is not just a matter of culture, but of bums on seats - America's Latino craze and Britain's growing love for Bollywood are making people money. Synthesis is big bucks. K3G is not being given the full marketing treatment as an act of benevolence: it will mint some serious money.

But more importantly, if we in Britain are already, under the umbrella of Bollywood, turning out films and literature and plays that feed off mixed influences, it excites me to think how they might be refashioned yet again by the writers of tomorrow. Everybody wins.

A generation of British cross-cultural writers and performers are creating a new consciousness: the consciousness of the diaspora. I foresaw it when, as a child, my white friends suddenly wanted bell chains from India Craft and tie-dye T-shirts from the souk, curry houses popped up on every corner and Sneh Gupta was on the telly.

Writers who have their roots in the east and their hearts in the west are exploring their experiences in the mainstream: Hanif Kureishi, Shyam Selvadurai, Romesh Gunesekera, Meera Syal, Bidisha, Jhumpa Lahiri, the list goes on. Today, Talvin Singh and Nitin Sawhney sell out across the country. We watch Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No 42. We've had Bhaji on the Beach, East is East, and soon we'll have Anita and Me, and Bend it Like Beckham. Next year, there's even a Lloyd Webber-produced musical, Bombay Dreams. In the arts, the equivalent of flock wallpaper is giving way to the Indian brasserie.

Last month, my daughters and I sat down over dinner. It was the week of Diwali. "Did you write the festival into your book, Mummy?" my youngest asked. I shook my head: "No, why should I?" My eldest was astounded: "Because it's the celebration of Rama and Sita returning from exile after 14 years. How could you not know that?" How could I not know that? Having spent my childhood doing the Lambeth walk and bullying my mum into learning how to make shepherd's pie and jam roly-poly, here I was with children who boast an international repertoire that puts me to shame. I realised that, in Southall parlance, I was a coconut - brown on the outside and white inside - whereas my children are truly integrated, with open minds that give them a rounded understanding of the fusion they represent. They are Bollywood girls.
..(Amitabh Bachchan was an average student who almost failed in English essay and Physics Honours in his university education. Amitabh was rejected by All India Radio when he applied for news reading jobs in both Hindi and English due to his voice.)
..(Bollywood’s badshah Amitabh is an alumnus of Delhi University's Kirori Mal College, where he earned a degree in science.)
..(superstar Amitabh Bachchan met Britain's future prime minister Chancellor Gordon Brown at Yashraj studios on February 1, 2007 and watched Kajra re)

..(Amitabh's acting career began in his Kindgarten days when he played the role of a chicken. He acted as a Mayor in Russian playwright Nikolai Gogol's "Government Inspector" while studying in Sherwood College (Nainital) and won the best actor's trophy in 1957)

Amitabh Bachchan complete movies from 1974 to 2006... (YouTube Videos above are of Amitabh Bachchan honoured with a Doctorate by a British University, in "Don" singing super hit 'Khaike Paan Banaras Wala...' and in "Bunty Aur Babli" singing blockbuster 'Kajra Re...' with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan)

Amitabh Bachchan with Akshay Kumar in "Family" (2006).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Abhishek Bachchan in "Bunty Aur Babli" (2005).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Shahrukh Khan in "Paheli" (2005).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Arjun Rampal in "Ek Ajnabee" (2005).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Sanjay Dutt in "Deewaar" (2004).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Akshay Kumar in "Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Sathiyo" (2004).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Sunil Shetty in "Kaante" (2002).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Shahrukh Khan in "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" (2001).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Ajay Devgan in "Major Saab" (1998).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Rishi Kapoor in "Ajooba" (1991).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Mithun in "Agneepath" (1990).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Rohini Hattangadi in "Shahenshah" (1988).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Rajnikant in "Giraftaar" (1985).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Jaya Prada in "Sharaabi" (1984).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Hema Malini in "Satte Pe Satta" (1982).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Rekha in "Silsila" (1981).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Parveen Babi in "Shaan" (1980).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Zeenat Aman in "Don" (1978).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Sanjeev Kumar in "Trishul" (1978).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Vinod Khanna in "Muqaddar Ka Sikandar" (1978).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Neetu Singh in "Amar Akbar Anthony" (1977).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Rakhee in "Kabhi Kabhie" (1976).
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Amitabh Bachchan with Manoj Kumar in "Roti Kapda Aur Makaan" (1974).
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