SoggyCornflakes - Bollywood

And self-less and self-sacrificing and work-orientated…and maybe a little bit stupid. You know when there’s a lot of pain in your body? That’s a sign to stop and take it easy. Mr Amitabh Bachchan obviously doesn’t get that though and thinks that enormous pain in your wrists are signs of great virility or something that’s slightly more logical than that.

On the sets of his latest movie Alladin, Amitabh injured his wrist during a dance sequence (in more technical terms, he tore his wrist ligament…that’s not really technical, it’s more accurate I guess). He didn’t tell anyone though and it only became obvious that he was in serious pain when he burst into tears in the middle of a shoot. Just joking…about the tears anyways, it took a while for anyone to find out that he had hurt himself and he insisted that the show goes on…what a cliche!

Director Sujay Ghosh is full of admiration however and says,

“Sir is in considerable pain. But he insists on continuing. Anyone else would have curled up and called off the shoot. But that’s what makes him special.

“When the injury occurred Thursday he didn’t allow us to know what happened. Throughout the day he hid his pain and continued dancing. Only at the end of the day did we get to know what had happened.”

Amitji hopes to be well in a weeks time however so he can continue to shimmy on-screen and delight us with his frollicking. Whoohoo! Did you see him in that Cadbury ad? How cool was he in that!?