While Amitabh Bachchan shoots in Kolkata sporting a paunch with Deepika Padukone for Piku, Shoma A Chatterji in an interview tries to discover the man behind the make-up
The great Amitabh Bachchan is shooting in Kolkata, where he once stayed and worked before his career in films, merrily cycling around the northern parts of the city with his artificial paunch while security men and production team have a trying time keeping crowds at bay. He has come to shoot for Piku, produced and directed by Shoojit Sircar. It is the story of a father-daughter relationship where Deepika Padukone plays the daughter. In a word-association-response game, the actor brings out the man behind the make-up – assuming he would not care for the word ‘mask’ – donned for forty years in hundreds of films. He indulges in some rare straight talk about family, faith, life and other things.
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