Steven Spielberg in conversation with Amitabh Bachchan

Read More">Last evening was by far one of the most enlightening and yet entertaining evenings as legendary Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan took on the role of an interviewer while opposite him was none other than director-producer par excellence Steven Spielberg. The event which featured the duo in conversation was a close knit affair with a handRead More

Last evening was by far one of the most enlightening and yet entertaining evenings as legendary Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan took on the role of an interviewer while opposite him was none other than director-producer par excellence Steven Spielberg. The event which featured the duo in conversation was a close knit affair with a hand full of people from both the Indian film industry and media, being specially invited to participate.

Big B also shares some of the excerpts of the conversation that he had with Spielberg at the event. He posts, “You started as a child with a 8mm camera Mr Spielberg, casting your Mother in perhaps your first attempt at film making, or that, Read More">where you were so engrossed and indulgent with two ofRead More

Big B also shares some of the excerpts of the conversation that he had with Spielberg at the event. He posts, "You started as a child with a 8mm camera Mr Spielberg, casting your Mother in perhaps your first attempt at film making, or that, where you were so engrossed and indulgent with two of your toy trains crashing into each other, and filming the event at the cost of losing your 'property', because your Father had warned you that if the trains broke again he would throw the entire mechanism out of the window. The 'ET' that you designed and made so endearing, because your Father again told you that if someone came down from the stars they would be good people, unlike the impression most had of them coming to earth to destroy it. Or, why you never thought of making 'StarWars' because you were more interested in bringing the people in space down to Earth, as opposed to George Lucas, taking everyone billions of miles away from Earth to be in the company of the extra terrestrial. Stars, your Father explained were in the sky and looked beautiful. Why then would they want to come down to hurt, conquer or destroy us. Your great friends - Coppola and Sam Mendes .. Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma ... all huge and successful makers and the envy that drove each one of you into healthy competition, yet never exhibiting any negativity, despite, as you so frankly put it, the jealousy that you felt towards each other.

My own apprehension as an actor and the elimination of importance towards us as heroes bloomed, because the greatest heroes in cinema were now, thanks to you and others, a fish, a robot, an extra terrestrial being, or a dinosaur !!!! The human had been devoured by a TRex !!

Interesting observations came through by the evening .. I think the invited fraternity felt good ... and then there was dinner and the night came to an end ..."

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Talking about the event on his blog, Bachchan says, “An evening with an institution .. an evening spent in conversation in the presence of select fraternity and press .. an evening of sharing cinema with prolific maker, inventer, story teller, Read More">innovator and one who continues to surprise us with his genius .. An honest eveningRead More

Talking about the event on his blog, Bachchan says, "An evening with an institution .. an evening spent in conversation in the presence of select fraternity and press .. an evening of sharing cinema with prolific maker, inventer, story teller, innovator and one who continues to surprise us with his genius ..

An honest evening - simple and filled with candor !

Present too, the best in-house fraternity of the time .. a rare presence, but one that lent the evening a feeling of 'family and brotherhood'."

Tweeting his thoughts, Bachchan posted, “A scintillating evening with Mr Steven Spielberg .. films relations scripts trends future .. and more !!” The event hosted by one of India’s leading businessmen Anil Ambani, saw a starry turn out with Abbas-Mustan, Kunal Kohli, Raju Hirani, Balki, Gauri Shinde, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Sudhir Mishra, Prabhu Dheva, Read More">Read More

Tweeting his thoughts, Bachchan posted, "A scintillating evening with Mr Steven Spielberg .. films relations scripts trends future .. and more !!" The event hosted by one of India's leading businessmen Anil Ambani, saw a starry turn out with Abbas-Mustan, Kunal Kohli, Raju Hirani, Balki, Gauri Shinde, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Sudhir Mishra, Prabhu Dheva, Shyam Benegal, Kiran Rao, Ramesh Sippy, Javed Akhtar, Ashutosh Gowarikar. Prasoon Joshi, Anurag Kashyap, Rensil D'Silva, Rakeysh Mehra, Ayaan and many more joining the audience.