Amitabh Bachchan: The best there ever is
Text: Arthur J Pais in Atlantic City | Photographs: Paresh Gandhi

 12slid1 Amitabh Bachchan: The best there ever is

If repeated standing ovations were a common sight during the first hour of the Unforgettable show at Atlantic City August 9, there was something entirely different in the air when Amitabh Bachchan danced to the Rang Barse song from Silsila.
Hundreds in the audience, young and old, jumped onto the chairs and demanded an encore. They applauded him lustily. Many waved handwritten placards that said things like: ‘You are the best there ever is.’

And when he recited his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s famous and stirring poem Agneepath, the older spectators heard in rapt attention. One man sitting close to me had his hand on his heart.

read rest from website