bharath2080
Oct 06, 2009, 08:39 AM
Amitabh Bachchan is back with Aladin, in which he plays Genius, the genie. At the music launch of the film, his first release this year, the legendary star sighs that he has had to answer the question 40 times since morning and yet he politely spoke about the film, his character, the music of the film and much more.
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Tell us something about the film and your role in it, as the genie.
The story is nothing new as everyone knows the story of Aladin. Sujoy Ghosh has given it a contemporary twist. Three things have been retained. Aladin, the lamp and the genie are the same. Everything else has been changed. The city is called Khwaish Nagar and it is a fantasy land but it isn’t that whimsical also. It isn’t pre-historic but very contemporary in the terms of the way people dress, live and travel. There is a boy called Aladin Chatterjee. Since Sujoy is a Bengali, he has given the protagonist a Bengali name too. Since his name is Aladin, his classmates tease him saying that if he is Aladin, where is his lamp and his genie? So he is beaten and teased by his peers. When he grows up, his problem is the same. Then Jasmine makes an entry and changes his life. His enemies tell her to gift him something. She gives him a lamp which turns out to be a magical one with a real genie. When Aladin rubs it, a genie emerges, that’s me. He tells he has three wishes which he must make quickly because the genie wants to retire as he is very..........CLICK HERE (http://www.starboxoffice.com/sbogallery.aspx?aid=1302&bid=2011/June/reviews_20110625_24)
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Aladin - - starboxoffice.com
Tell us something about the film and your role in it, as the genie.
The story is nothing new as everyone knows the story of Aladin. Sujoy Ghosh has given it a contemporary twist. Three things have been retained. Aladin, the lamp and the genie are the same. Everything else has been changed. The city is called Khwaish Nagar and it is a fantasy land but it isn’t that whimsical also. It isn’t pre-historic but very contemporary in the terms of the way people dress, live and travel. There is a boy called Aladin Chatterjee. Since Sujoy is a Bengali, he has given the protagonist a Bengali name too. Since his name is Aladin, his classmates tease him saying that if he is Aladin, where is his lamp and his genie? So he is beaten and teased by his peers. When he grows up, his problem is the same. Then Jasmine makes an entry and changes his life. His enemies tell her to gift him something. She gives him a lamp which turns out to be a magical one with a real genie. When Aladin rubs it, a genie emerges, that’s me. He tells he has three wishes which he must make quickly because the genie wants to retire as he is very..........CLICK HERE (http://www.starboxoffice.com/sbogallery.aspx?aid=1302&bid=2011/June/reviews_20110625_24)