If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

Amitabh Bachchan

Categorized in : Ideas Dirty Pain

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Amitabh Bachchan

never-change challenges

When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath... will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!

Amitabh Bachchan

three years

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.

Amitabh Bachchan

body religious way

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

Amitabh Bachchan

donate philanthropy publicity

It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!

Amitabh Bachchan

unique action looks

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Amitabh Bachchan

technique actors use

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

Amitabh Bachchan

super-star superstar

In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.

Amitabh Bachchan

girl father years

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Amitabh Bachchan

flattering accepting age

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Amitabh Bachchan

media actors age

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Amitabh Bachchan

benefits body facts

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

Amitabh Bachchan

outrageous superstar clothes

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

Amitabh Bachchan

stage careers

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

Amitabh Bachchan

feels

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Amitabh Bachchan

butterfly home night

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

Amitabh Bachchan

stress media home

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

Amitabh Bachchan

musical numbers people

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Amitabh Bachchan

cinema believe ideas

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Amitabh Bachchan

romance play father

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.

Amitabh Bachchan

emotion silence art