Shamitabh Wikipedia. Shamitabh is a 2. Indian satirical film written and directed by R. Balki. 56 The film features Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush and Akshara Haasan, in her debut, in the lead roles. 7 The film is jointly produced by Sunil Lulla, Balki, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, R. Plot. Lootera is inspired by O. Henrys The Last Leaf. In the picturesque town of Manikpur, West Bengal in 1953, a landlord goes to watch a Chhau dance with his. The Most Anticipated Indian Movies and Shows widget tracks the realtime popularity of relevant pages on IMDb, and displays those that are currently generating the. K. Damani, Amitabh. Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sunil Manchanda and Dhanush under their respective production banners. Ilaiyaraaja composed the soundtrack album and background score, while cinematography was handled by P. C. Sreeram. 8 The film released to positive reviews with critics praising Dhanush and Amitabhs performances. Danish Dhanush, born mute in rural Igatpuri, loves films. He acts out scenes before his class, amazing his peers and teacher, and spends all his time in the local Paradise theatre. He even tries to board a Mumbai bus to go become a film star but is pulled off by his mothers friends. When he grew up, Danish brings pakodas to the local video store owner and watches films every day. His mother feigns illness and keeps him from going to Mumbai but when she dies, Danish leaves for Mumbai. Danish gets into Film City past its guards and finds shelter in an actors vanity van, hiding under the sofa. Travelling around in the empty van, Danish desperately tries to meet directors but cannot. He meets assistant director Akshara Pandey Akshara Haasan who is impressed by his talent. She shows his video, shot on her phone, to a director but he rejects casting a mute hero. Aksharas father, a doctor, treats Danish after he gets into a fight with security guards. On his recommendation, Danish and Akshara arrive at Finland to meet his friend who shows Danish their new Live Voice Transfer Technology, that uses embedded micro recorders and ear pieces and enables mute people to communicate via a borrowed voice. Akshara and Danish return to Mumbai with the equipment and find Amitabh Sinha Amitabh Bachchan, a failed actor and drunkard. Although he was rejected because of his deep baritone, the duo are actually impressed with the same baritone and ask him to lend his voice to Danish he accepts, and signs an agreement not to disclose himself as Danishs voice. Directed by Milan Luthria. With Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Prachi Desai. A smuggler rises to power in in 1970s Mumbai, a younger gangster seeks to. Plot. Danish, born mute in rural Igatpuri, loves films. He acts out scenes before his class, amazing his peers and teacher, and spends all his time in the local. Netflix New Zealand offers streaming of some of the most popular movies of all time and many new releases in its movie library. Heres the complete list for you. Their first project becomes a major success and numerous film offers come for Danish, now named Shamitabh a portmanteau of Danish and Amitabh. Amitabh, who is officially Danishs valet, also wants a role in accepting or rejecting scripts. He tells Danish his voice is as big if not bigger a star than Danishs talent. The friction between them grows. Amitabh gets fever and Danish makes him take an injection. In retaliation, Amitabh makes Danish accepts singing a song in his new film. Amitabh sings the song Piddly, but is horrified by its picturisation of toilets across snowy peaks, suggested by Danish to tease him. Danish arrives at London to deliver a speech which Amitabh voices for him, but Danish treats him like a servant. Amitabh later becomes inebriated and attacks a police officer, leading to his arrest, but Danish bails him out. When the duo return to Mumbai, journalists ask Danish if he is apologetic about the incident. Amitabh mischievously makes him reply in negative, much to Danishs fury. The duo parts ways Danish plays a mute person in his next film, while Amitabh dubs for another actor in a different film. Both films fail. Meanwhile, Akshara, who had gone to Sikkim to write a script for Danish, returns but berates Danish when he refuses to apologise to Amitabh. She forces Amitabh and Danish to reconcile. A media reporter, having discovered the secret that Danish was born mute, threatens to expose the duo but they decide to tell the truth and surprise the world. Danish and Amitabh accept to work in Aksharas debut film, and Danish tells Akshara that he loves her. While Danish and Amitabh are on the way to Aksharas film ceremony, a car accident occurs Danish is killed while Amitabhs larynx is damaged, making him mute. Some time later, Amitabh paces around Danishs grave with Aksharas script, imagining that Danish is still alive and practicing his lines for the film. Cameo appearances. ProductioneditDevelopmenteditIn August 2. Dhanush would play the lead role in R. Balkis next film. 1. But Balki denied them as rumors, citing that they may have arisen when he had shot for an advertisement featuring. 1. In November 2. 01. Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush were announced as feature in the lead roles. The film also marked the acting debut of Kamal Haasans second daughter, Akshara Haasan. 1. In addition to portraying one of the films central characters, Amitabh Bachchan had also bankrolled the venture. 1. In May 2. 01. 4, Balki revealed that the film would be titled Shamitabh, which also sounded similar to the Bollywood stars name,1. Amitabh Bachchan lent his voice to Dhanush, who plays a dumb aspiring actor in the film. 1. The films title derived from the duos names in which Sh from Dhanush was added as a prefix to Amitabh, therefore becoming Shamitabh. 1. CastingeditBesides the lead cast,1. February 2. 01. 4 that actor Rajeev Ravindranathan would appear in a small role in the film. 1. Rajeev confirmed the same again in July 2. In August 2. 01. 4, it was reported that director Mahesh Bhatt had acted in a cameo role in the film. 2. Later it was reported that not only Mahesh Bhatt, but Karan Johar, Anurag Basu, Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, Rajkumar Hirani, Gauri Shinde, along with lyricist Javed Akhtar and producers Boney Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor would do cameos in the film. 2. Actress Abhinaya of Nadodigal 2. Actress Rekha was selected to play a supporting role. 2. Vandita Shrivastava, an MBA turned actress, stated that she had a role in the film. 2. FilmingeditPrincipal photography commenced on February 2. Igatpuri. 82. 6 Amitabh Bachchan began shooting for his portions in the film in April 2. Shamitabh became the first Bollywood film to be shot in the Lapland region of Finland and in Helsinki. 2. The crew shot some scenes at the Seven Hills Hospital, the same place where Amitabh Bachchan underwent two abdominal surgeries and saw the birth of Aaradhya, his granddaughter. 3. Some scenes were also shot in London. 3. The team took a break in mid July 2. Dhanushs birthday and the success of his 2. Velaiyilla Pattathari 2. In mid August 2. Amitabh Bachchan stated that he had completed his portions for the film,3. Dhanush reportedly did a few dastardly stunts in the film. 3. The films cinematographer P. C. Sreeram was fascinated by Aksharas acting capability and lack of nervousness while shooting with Dhanush and Amitabh Bachchan and lauded her as a woman of substance. 3. Akshara did her own choreography for her dance. 3. During the shooting of the film in Finland, a snow storm hit the area where shooting was going on for a dance sequence in the film and had to immediately walk back towards a safer environment. Hence, they walked for about 1. Choreographers Bosco Caesar decided to continue with it and shot the song the next day since a delay would have caused permission trouble. 3. The soundtrack album and background score were composed by Ilaiyaraaja. 8 Illaiyaraaja began work for the films songs on 6 January 2. Mumbai. 3. 9 Amitabh Bachchan had lent his voice to a song in the film. Promotion and releaseeditThe film released worldwide on 6 February 2. The first look of the lead actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush were released on 2. July 2. 01. 4,4. July 2. 01. 4,4. A video trailer of Amitabh sitting in a toilet and singing piddly si baatein, a catchy, peppy song while holding the script, was released on 3. December 2. 01. 4. An extended version of the trailer was released on 7 January 2. Amitabh Bachchan had been reportedly seen sporting a rugged look and wearing shabby clothes,4. Bachchan found the look quite difficult to preserve throughout the shooting of the film. 4. Bachchan described every film he made with Balki as novel, out of the ordinary and most challenging and Shamitabh is no different. 4.
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