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Abhishek Bachchan was left in awe of his father, veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan’s performance as a media baron in Ram Gopal Varma’s “Rann”, so much so that he says India doesn’t deserve a talent like him.

“We don’t deserve a talent like Mr. Amitabh Bachchan. Don’t think we can make movies to fit his talent,” Abhishek posted on his Twitter page.

Abhishek, who was in the capital Thursday for the premiere of “Rann”, is also all praise for his friend Ritieish Deshmukh’s performance in “Rann”.

“Well done Riteish. His finest performance till date. Proved his versatility beautifully. Recognise people! Stop slotting him,” he added.

For Abhishek Bachchan, constant comparisons with dad Amitabh are an "honour" and not a problem. But as he gears up for his television debut with game show National Bingo Night, he says he is not competing in any way with Bachchan senior, who hosted the popular Kaun Banega Crorepati TV show in 2000.

"If you are not going to compare me to him (Amitabh), whom are you going to compare me to? I have never had a problem being compared to him and, like I said, who doesn’t want to be compared to Amitabh Bachchan? He is the best we have and the best that we ever will have. It’s a matter of great honour for me," said Abhishek.

The 33-year-old has faced comparisons with his father ever since his Bollywood debut with Refugee a decade ago. Now he says he doesn’t want to be weighed on the same scale.

"He (Amitabh) has been on TV and he created history on the medium. Do I hope to be able to outdo that? No, because that’s not possible. Nobody is going to be a better actor than him, nobody is going to be able to make a bigger mark than him on Indian cinema and on world cinema and the same goes for TV. Do I have aspirations of outdoing him? No, I don’t compete with my father," he said.

Vidya Balan, who plays Amitabh Bachchan’s mother in “Paa”, was so impressed by Abhishek’s caring behaviour towards his father during the shooting that she confesses she would like to have a son like Abhishek in real life.

“I would prefer a son like Abhishek. I have seen him with his father on the sets… he was so nice to his father that I was touched,” Vidya told reporters here Saturday.

Director R. Balakrishnan’s “Paa” is an emotional story of a father-son relationship and Amitabh will be seen as Abhishek’s 13-year-old son Auro who is suffering from a rare disease progeria, that accelerates ageing. The film releases Dec 4.

“The film is all about Auro and all through the film there is a certain sensibility about Auro, but no sympathy is shown towards the 13-year-old progeric child in the film,” said Vidya.

When the director approached her for the role, she wasn’t sure about playing the mother of a progeric child. “Initially, I wondered how to do the role as I didn’t have that motherly instinct. But while working on the film I realised what motherhood is,” said Vidya.

In their first appearance in a television commercial Bollywood celebrity couple Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan will show their mischievous side.

The two have teamed up for a soap brand and will be seen getting cosy in the commercial.

The couple has reportedly been paid a hefty amount to feature in the ad film which will be on air this month.

This is their first ad together though the two have featured as a couple in films like “Kuch Naa Kaho”, “Dhai Akshar Prem Ke”, “Umrao Jaan” and “Guru”. Their next is Mani Ratnam’s “Ravan”.

As it was in the news a couple of days ago that to rejuvenate herself from the hectic shoot of Raavana , Aishwarya took a day off and has visited an uber exclusive spa centre in Mumbai which is famous for the natural use of products.

Our khabroo did a lot of probing and has found out that Ash got herself pampered with some of the rare beauty oils…which made her skin so beautiful and luminous? So that seems to be the latest beauty mantra one the most beautiful women of the world, apni Ash…

Well, after learning about his wife’s latest pet passion-‘Beauty Oils’ Abhi bhaiyya decided to do something different this Diwali for his loving wife and has gifted her a real exotic beauty oil gift hamper specially orders and flown in from an unknown location, which has some rare and wonderful beauty oils like Patchouli oils, Granium oil and Orange Oil, which is Ash’s favorite.

Now its Abhishek after Aamir Khan, Shahrukh, Hrithik Roshan and Harman. As Ashutosh Gowarikar has decided to star him in lead role in ‘Khele Hum Ji Jaan Se’ in his historical based movie for which he praised a lot.

Once again Ashutosh Gowarikar has planned to show Chittagong Uprising of 1930 on silver screen.Earlier he spread his magic of direction in making historical facts-based movies like Lagaan and Jodhaa Akbar.

Ashutosh giving confirmation and says ‘Khele Hum Jee Jaan Se is inpired from the book Do and Die by Manini Chatterjee. Book is about the Chittagong Uprising of 1930 so try to potray the things in the movie.He added says ‘It will be a period-thriller film with Abhishek playing Surjya Sen.’

The one trait for which Ashutosh known for is changes starcast for his each movie and never take the artist twice in the lead role.

Katrina Kaif and Abhishek Bachchan make an awkward pair; not that they won’t look good together but Salman Khan was linked with Abhishek’s wife Aishwarya in the past. If everything goes on well, Katrina and Abhishek will act together in the Hindi version of the Hollywood hit film The Hangover.

Director Anees Bazmee has got the movie rights of The Hangover starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Heather Graham. The Hindi version to be produced by Firoz Nadiadwala, actors like Katrina, Abhishek, Paresh Rawal, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh are likely to play the main roles. Katrina would play the female lead role, Abhishek would play the role of Bradley Cooper and Paresh Rawal would play Zach Galifianakis’ role.

The Hangover is about four men experiencing the worst hangover. Everything went haywire after a wild party. The remake version is likely to go to the floors next year.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan travelled all the way to Kargil to pay tribute to the war heroes ahead of Vijay Diwas July 26 armed with ‘gajar ka halwa’ and ‘aam ras’ especially made by his wife Aishwarya Rai and mother Jaya Bachchan for the soldiers posted there.

Abhishek also read out a beautiful poem ‘Agnipath’ written by his grandfather Harivansh Rai Bachchan along with a message from his actor father Amitabh Bachchan.

He visited some of the locations where the Kargil war was fought 10 years back. His entire journey will be shown on NDTV’s special show "Jai Jawan" Saturday at 12 p.m. and Sunday 11.30 a.m. and 9.30 p.m.

The journey to Kargil and Drass is an eight-hour drive. Following the route taken by jawans, Abhishek walked across the Zojilla Pass and even drove for a portion of the journey, meeting soldiers at each point along the way, an NDTV release said.

Abhishek also visited a bunker at Sando top and even tried his hand at firing a few rounds with them at the training centre. He then recounted his experiences while shooting for the movie "LOC Kargil", which was inspired by the war.

On Kargil Vijay Diwas 10 years ago, Indian soldiers defeated the Pakistani infiltrators after fighting for over 40 days in Kargil and Drass and retrieved the control of the land they had lost to infiltrators. Many soldiers lost their lives in the war.

Two caravans used in the shooting of Mani Ratnam’s multilingual movie Ravan, starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, in Ooty have been seized for having forged vehicle documents, police said on Tuesday. The two caravans had the same registration number. “An investigation led to findings of fraud in the use of forged vehicle IDs and tax evasion, which in turn led to seizure of four vehicles during the last week,” said a police official. According to police, the vehicles seized in Ooty have been valued at Rs 12 million. Both Abhishek and Aishwarya are said to have used the vehicles during the shooting.

The shooting of Ravan has been shifted to another hill station, Hogenekkal (some 300 km southwest from Chennai). The police official said he feared the “racket may be much bigger since all top stars use high-priced caravans”. Police teams have left for Mumbai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu to look for other similar vehicles. Sources close to Ratnam said: “To our knowledge only two vehicles that were being operated for us have been seized. The suppliers who lent logistical support to our outdoor units should be blamed.

Our shooting is in progress without any glitches.”Our office has taken up the issue with the suppliers,” the source added. Ravan is being made in Hindi and Tamil. It also stars Tamil actors Vikram and Karthik. Since shooting began last year, minor problems have dogged the venture, including Ratnam being laid down with a mild heart problem, and cinematographer Manikandan handing over the work to another celebrated cameraman Santosh Sivan.

After Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, it is now Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan who will be seen in the role of a spy in super-slick espionage film called ‘Crooked’. After wrapping Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ravaan’, the couple will kick start the shooting of ‘Crooked’. By stepping into the similar roles of Saif and Bebo who are playing spies in Sriram Raghavan’s ‘Agent Vinod’, Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan became follower of the trend set by Saif and Kareena.

Producer Ritesh Sidhwani said, “Our slick espionage thriller will be in the same genre as The Bourne Identity. It will be shot in Greece, Istanbul, Thailand and India. Apart from Ash and Abhi, ‘Crooked’ stars Gul Panag, Jimmy Sheirgil and Boman Irani.

Director Abhinay Deo is in the wrapping up process of Aamir Khan’s productions ‘Delhi Belly’ with Imran Khan and Shernaz Treasuryvala and will start working on ‘Crooked’ shortly.