Click to play videoBollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has a new role. He is the genie of Aladin. Bachchan is playing the vanishing act in Sujoy Ghosh's next film Aladin. He spoke to CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand.
Rajeev Masand: Mr Bachchan can you describe your first reaction when the director of Aladin Sujoy Ghosh approached you with the idea that you have to do this film and be part of this film.
Amitabh Bachchan: I shall have to go a little further back. Sujoy has been chasing me with several reasons to do film with him and he narrated one or two ideas. One particular idea he was very persistent with. It was not Aladin, it was something else. Then he eventually came with the story of Aladin and said 'I want to you to do this'. The moment I heard it I just felt very attracted to it because it was very simple yet very cute.
Rajeev Masand: I think from an audience perspective it is interesting that it is a modern take on an old fable and in a sense an opportunity to reconnect with something that we really grown up with.
Amitabh Bachchan: Absolutely! Though I must say that the facts of the old story are just there in a very few places. There is a lamp, there is Aladin and there is a genie. But that's about it. He has grown up in a very timid, weak not really a nerd but just a weak, timid person in the college. He keeps getting bullied by all his seniors and people who are tougher and stronger than him. So he has always led a very reticent, reclusive, reserve life. Then he sees this girl in college whom he falls in love with at first sight and he needs to communicate with her. But he does not have enough courage and energy. The gang that teases him in college is always teasing him because his name is Aladin. They convince the girl to give a lamp to him as a present all as a joke. It turns out that this lamp is indeed 'the lamp'. He has to rub it in front of them because they are making fun of him. And a man appears who is a genie. He says I am a genie, I have three wishes, I am 5,000 years old, I am due for my retirement and these are last three wishes so would you please hurry up and ask them because I need to get back.
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