A date with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan — aljazeera.com

I was eight years old and there was an air of excitement at home. We were about to watch our first ever Bollywood film, Amar Akbar Anthony , the tale of three brothers separated at birth and reunited in adulthood, with an abundance of romance, singing, dancing and beating up a few villains along the way. For the next three hours we forgot everything as Amitabh Bachchan and his co-actors transported us into a fantasy land where cheesiness was without shame, melodrama was unapologetic and the melodies were mesmerising.

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