AB: Longest success story – Day 2111

Amitabh Bachchan is Indian cinema’s longest success story and some of his characters travel down generations like a motif forming different patterns at different phases of his career as a result the soldier of Saat Hindustani became the Colonel of Lakshya. The obsessed lover of Parwana graduated into a concerned father of a daughter, stalked by another obsessed lover in Aetbaar. The erstwhile hero of Pyaar ki Kahani who spoke up for the dignity of women, dared to damage it beyond repair as the playboy in Jurmana. In Shakti he failed to comprehend his idealistic father and in Baghban his children failed to value him as a parent. He craved for Dilip Kumar’s approval in Shakti and Akshay Kumar longed for his acceptance in Waqt-The Race against Time.

To be continued