The Pondicherry turn

The veteran actor Om Prakash worked with him in Parwaana and was astounded. He went all over, meeting filmmakers and other actors and telling them how he had worked with some of the best actors but had never had worked with an actor like this “lamba sa aadmi” with a very “bhaari” voice and “with a rare fire in his eyes”. His word spread and one of them who took greater interest was producer Prakash Mehra but did not take any decision then.

It was around this time that the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry had a special screening of Anand. It was a coincidence that Amitabh was to shoot in Pondicherry for S. Raamanathan’s Bombay To Goa. And Amitabh saw something strange happening around him. First, just three people kept staring at him, then some more and finally he was surrounded by a crowd and some one asked him if he was the same man who had acted in Anand. He humbly said yes and it was the first time that he was mobbed. posted by akshay shah, and filed under General