A matter of age

Age. There's a lot that is associated with it, culturally and socially. So much of ourselves we let go of as we age

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Amitabh Bachchan | Ayushmann Khurrana | Amazon Prime Video

Veenu Sandhu 

Veenu Sandhu

I usually avoid them. Films starring Amitabh Bachchan. But a pandemic, which has left us confined and confused, can make one do the avoidable.

So, I watched it. Gulabo Sitabo, which was the first big Bolly­wood film to be released on an OTT pl­atform (Amazon Prime Video) and stars the man whose most me­m­orable roles, for me, were in which he played second-fiddle to seasoned ac­tors (Dharmendra in Chupke Chu­p­ke and Rajesh Khanna in Anand). Or when he played a calculative, opportu­n­istic jiggery trader in the 1973 Saud­agar, a most un-Bachchan-like ...

First Published: Fri, July 24 2020. 22:41 IST