The bags under the eyes are very real. The skin is sagging and porous with wear. The hair is streaked with obstinate lines of silver. The gait has a pronounced arch around the limbs. He looks 63 going on 75.
This man still rules Bollywood, and there seems no end in sight. Amen.
Prima facie, it would be hard to imagine Ek Ajnabee working – it has no heroine, no comedy, no songs, no novel script. What it has in it, however, is the man who can make all of those seem out of place. If the youth of Amitabh’s career was driven by the inability of audiences to ....