Abhishek Bachchan – Career profile !
Though there was a hype about his debut but Abhishek Bachchan started with a moderate success in Refugee. After all he was only son of Bachchan couple, Amitabh and Jaya, who have been getting tremendous respect for their acting skills.
It was a great news with great media coverage and earlier JP Datta wanted to launch Abhishek in “Akhiri Mughal” with Dilip Saab in a substantial role. But somehow plan was not materialised and Abhishek was launched through Refugee. Film was an average success and Abhishek’s performance was noticed. I could not see Refugee at that time when it was released. In between he was associated with few so called flops. Promos of his second film “Tera Jadu chal gaya” were on TV where he was shown saying with strange pronunciation of words “Amaaan kya ho riya hai”. Abhishek looked awkward while saying those funny lines. Shekhar Suman ridiculed his saying in “Movers and Shakers”. Amitabh Bachchan has shown his mastery over Rampuri style of dialect in several of his old films and it was pity to see Abhishek saying dialogues in wrong way. He was in news in 2002 because of his broken engagement with Karishma Kapoor. Even Suraj Barjatya’s Mein Prem ki Diwani Hun could not uplift the image and career graph of Abhishek. But that film did not help either Hritik Roshan.
Abhishek was termed as flop actor who was in films because his dad was a super star and had good connections with big film makers. Even he was termed as temperamental when he was accused to hit a photographer journalist in Delhi during a film shoot.
I could see Refugee in 2004, ( atleast 4 years later of its releasing year) and this was my first ever Abishek’s film, and found him fine as far as first film was concerned. He did not do any unjustice with the role given to him. His second film I saw was Yuva and he was there to give equal response to well matured actor like Ajay Devgan and rising star Vivek Oberoy. He performed very well in the role of Lallan. His dialogue delivery was surely defective and he did not say dialect well but his expressions were good.
Then I saw one of his old film “Haan meine bhee pyar kiya hai” where he was pitted against Karishma Kapoor and Akshay Kumar and it was quite astonishing to see that Abhishek was best among three. Was it his fate which made film flop and added negative values to his image of a flop actor? Then I saw “Run” and he was fine, here too.
This was the time when Ram Gopal Verma signed him for his film Naach and he declared that Abhishek was far better actor than Amiatbh Bachchan was in his early phase of career. He said it perhaps to give Abhishek a necessary self-confidence. RGV said that till now he was getting roles which were not suitable for his kind of personality and he has different personality which requires different kind of roles.
In the mean time came Hum Tum where he had guest role. But then came “Phir Milenge” and it was a performance one expect from an actor to live the character given to him.
Abhishek was very good in “Phir Milenge” during the scene in high court. His intense performance was not less than any contemporary actor. It cant be said that any other actor could have done that scene better than Abhishek. He was just appealing in that monologue.
Here it wont be irrelevant to mention one scene in old film “NamakHaram” of Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna. Amitabh is confronting his screen father Om Shiv Puri and says that it w’d not be good if anything wrong happens to Somu (Rajesh Khanna). Amitabh had proved his capability of intense acting in that one scene. His anger, his frustration, everything was so expressive through his eyes, through his body langauge, through his dialogue delivery. It was super class performance from Amitabh in any manner and with such intense performances Amitabh had made it clear that now superstardom w’d be reaching to him from Rajesh Khanna’s possession. Abhishek has paralleled his father’s such performances, in the court room scene in “Phir Milenge”. Role was matching with his personality.
Naach was released and except the climax scene he was the best part of the film. In the climax scene his dialogue delivery and body language could not support his facial and eyes expressions and that ruined the scene. Don’t know who on earth gave him to wear a loose round neck T shirt in that scene? Such T shirts gives impression of heavy belly with everyone let alone Abhishek who really has heavy body. In the present generation of film actors, he is the only hero who does not have Gymnesium toned body. And he should really be careful because his body posture is very awkward in certain kind of scenes. Or perhaps RGV could not extract the necessary things out of Abhishek in that important scene or as its said that RGV did not direct whole of the Naach so perhaps some of his AD ruined that scene for Abhishek.
Abhishek was satisfactory in Bunty and Babli and a little bit more better in Sarkar. He was not less than Amitabh in these movies or perhaps Amitabh did not wish to over power his son’s acting chances or Amitabh’s roles were quite passive in comparison to Abhishek’s roles.
He has very intense eyes which are amalgam of Jaya and Amitabh’s eyes and ideally his acting ability should also be combined ability of his parent’s excellent acting skills. But its not easy to get standard of acting which Amitabh and Jaya have been having.
Given Abhishek’s performances in Umrao Jaan and Dhoom 2, it can be said that he has not attained stability where he can maintain a certain level of acting. He was really bad in these two films. Have not watched Guru yet but it’s a hope that able director like Mani Ratnam might have extracted out best suitable acting from Abhishek which he was needing to make his character appealing.
Abhishek Bachchan has been improving but has not yet attained a stable standard level of acting where he can ignite every kind of role. He has good voice like his father but his pronounciation in hindi is very bad and often he brings nasal touch in words which is objectionable. When he is active in Hindi films and dreams to make it big here then he should learn proper pronunciation of hindi words, Though it looks very awkward that grand son of famous poet and author of Hindi, Late Harivansh Rai Bachchan, has defective pronunciation of so many hindi words. Second weakness is his body posture. He should take care of it.
But people often go harsh towards him in biased manner. Often he pays price of being son of Amitabh Bachchan. This is a common criticism that he has been getting films because his father has been Super star. Now people forget that this same Super star could not uplift his own career after the debacle of his corporate effort ABCL. He had to win his audience himself. Mohabatein and KBC gave him chance to present his talent before the audience but this was his own charm, talent and hard work which made him super star again.
Nobody in show business is going to spend crors of rupees if an actor does not have any demand in market. They can be hired as character artists in small roles but not as heros. Amitabh Bachchan’s friends can arrange Dhoom or Umrao Jaan for Abhishek but they cant force audience to like him. He is in open arena, full of audience where they have full right and control to reject or accept him.
His fate, like any other actor, will be decided by his own destiny, hard work and talent. As an actor he should be judged on the basis of his films rather than on the basis that why he is having influential friends in cine industry? This is becoming a common tendancy that both SRK and Abhishek Bachchan are repeatedly gets zealous criticism because of their friend circle of filmi people. They work in films so their friends have to be from same field and if their friends have become famous and strong, then its not a faulty scene. A director like Mani Ratnam cant cast SRK or Abhishek because they are something in Industry, he casts them because either he sees them having potential to play the roles in his films or he thinks their presence in film will increase its market potentiality.
Audience does not easily gets influenced by stories, inspite of love stories of Abhishek with Aishwarya Rai, they did not appreciate their on screen pair and none of their film has been able to get even average success. He is finally engaged with her and its yet to see how this marriage affects his career?
When Abhishek did good or average (Phir milenge, Yuva, Sarkar, Bluff Master) he is praised and when he did bad he is rejected ( Dhoom 2 and Umrao Jaan).
If people think he has done well in Guru he will get his due and if they think it’s a hyped performance he will be dumped by audience.
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What nasal tone are you talking about? I do not think he has a nasal tone when he’s loud. Yes, Saif Ali Khan has a nasal tone, but not Abhishek.
And yes.. the Phir Milenge court scene was outstanding .. so was his role.
Philadelphia revisited.
arcopol: he brings effect of “N” in many hindi words which is absolutely wrong. its nasal tone.
RK! i was waiting for this!
my comment was also a silent victim of the storm, so here it goes again :-)
I have followed Abhishek since Refugee. His eyes were used rather well in Refugee but the support system was lacking. I liked this one scene where he has a confrontation with Jackie for being a
Tushar:
thanks for correcting me about his Agra styled dialgue.
He will get his due on the basis of his talent. This is also true that if due to the fact that he belongs to a mighty filmi family and it brings him more projects then he has chances to improve his craft because acting can be improved. This many actors have proved all over the world. He certainly is in better position now then he was 2-3 years ago.
a pleasure Sir.
he certainly needs more due considering his age and growth.
hey looks like everyone forgot BLuffmaster!
Frankly i havent seen the movie but the song video turned his fate. Suddenly from a flop wannabe he was considered ubercool!
gauri:
he was good in bluff master and far better than Fardeen Khan in the film based on almost similar plot. Though I dont know about any such thing if any song changed Abhishek’s fate as an actor. He was not bad actor when he was heavily criticized and he is not the Best actor among his generation actors when he is beingh praised now in Guru etc.
He has his positives and negatives. Frankly speaking I am yet to see a song ( other than Dhadhak Dhadahk in Bunty and Babli) where Abhishek Bachchan can be termed as natural and almost fittable. With his body language he usually spoils the songs where he has to dance.
When I started watching Abhishek’s films, always felt that he is lambi race ka ghoda. He had that raw energy that needs to be used properly. But I got tired after watching one bad film after other. Not only the films were bad but Abhishek didnt show any signs of improving. He had no clue what to do with his hands, his body was so stiff, he could not dance, bad pronunciation n bad acting. I lost all hopes on my lambi race ka ghoda.
And whtver said n done, he got so many films only bcz of Amitabh Bachchan. Which othr actor has got so many films with big directors/co-actors after delivering onbe flop after other. And we indians, desperatly wanted him to succeed. How could he be failure, our BIG B’s son. We will make him a suceess.
Though liked him in Yuva,Phir Milenge and Guru but now I dont like Abhishek Bachchan at all. Once,he was lacking confidence and now its over-confidence all over the place. Too much of attitude in his body language and doing some really bad movies. And he is still getting all the big banners !!!
Phoenixnu:
logically he must be having something in him which pushes film makers to sign him, else they dont sign, Tushar Kapoor, Bobby Deol etc star sons. Even Ritesh Deshmukh who is son of CM and perhaps most powerful in hindi cinema at present because Amitabh Bachchan can not do anything for anyone but Ritesh father certainly can do.
What do you think, why audience love Abhishek becasue he is son of Amitabh Bachchan? why Amitabh’s films go flop then?
RK, talking about signing Abhishek Bachchan…i dont know what they c in him. I guess, must be something.
And yes in the same way lot of other producers c lot of other things in lot many other big bad actors, bad story writers and bad music directors. But they realise their mistakes only after the film releases. And so flop rate is maximum in our films. Doordrshiti har kisi ki bus ki baat nahi.
I have not been able to understand why people love Abhishek Bachchan. i know why girls love him. And the reason is not great acting for sure.
phoenixnu:
you are right, liking and love has no boundaries attached.
pyar na dekhe, andha kana, pyar na dekhe jaat paat,
pyara na dekhe sukhi roti, pyar mein jarur hai kuch baat:d
@RK, bechara pyaar physically handicap hai re bhai aur logon ko mentally handicap banakar chorta hai.
Rk i think you might be right about his acting skills! Not too bad/not too good. So he gets the benefit of doubt
But I think the Bluffmaster video was v well shot n choreographed. It did work for him! For once he was told what to do with his hands n they dint hang around like an extra accessory :D
gauri:
after all Rohan Sippy is his childhood friend. he must be knowing which angle is good for his dear friend Abhishek and which posture is good.:)