Saturday, December 12, 2009

This is HOW Amitabh Bachchan became AURO

The most Herculean task about the latest release PAA was transforming a 67-year old Amitabh Bachchan into 13-year old child Auro, suffering from a rare disorder called progeria. So come let's take a short run-through over how Amitabh became Auro.

Now you can see what's hidden

Auro as a AmitabhThe prosthetic makeup, as we know, has been done by Hollywood's Christien Tinsley (THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, CATWOMAN) and Dominie Till (THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY). Auro as a Amitabh1According to the reports Bachchan's make-up cost 10 per cent of the total budget. Auro as a Amitabh2It is learnt that it used to take four to five hours daily for Amitabh Bachchan's makeup to be done for his film PAA.Auro as a Amitabh3Not only this, if it used to take four hours to put on the make-up then two hours to remove it. Auro as a Amitabh4There are eight different layers of clay which has been put in his make up in the film.Auro as a Amitabh5 While applying the make up he cannot eat, drink and talk for four hours.Auro as a Amitabh6 Most of the performance comes out because of the make up.Auro as a Amitabh7Big B wore specially designed dentures so as to effortlessly replicate the voice of a 13-year old child. Auro as a Amitabh8 He gets a lisp and his speech pattern gets height="300" src="cid:10.2414647210@web95406.mail.in2.yahoo.com" width="450">

He wore the dentures throughout the film's shooting and also had them on while dubbing.Auro as a Amitabh9Infact he has also sung a song in his voice wearing these dentures, which sounds like a child. Auro as a Amitabh10 But Big B never ever showed a sign of panic, on the contrary he was always co-operative, patient, cool and full of enthusiasm.Auro as a Amitabh11 Auro as a Amitabh12 Auro as a Amitabh13 Auro as a Amitabh14 Auro as a Amitabh15