Hello, my name is Justin the Clu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And today, we're talking about the greatest superstar to ever grace the big screen. Yes,

we're talking about Amitab Bach Chan, Bollywood's biggest star, who you may know from such

movies as The Great Gatsby?

Yes, where he plays Meyer Wolfshyme for a few minutes. He's also, of course, famous for

Slumdog Millionaire, which he isn't actually in, but he's in that scene. His spectral presence

is in it. An actor pretending to be him that you never see, I think, the top of his head and just the

back of his body. But look, he's the most famous man in India, the biggest star they've ever had, a man held in regard somewhere between, I don't know, a Humphrey Bogart and Abraham Lincoln. Or God. Oh, God. Yeah, pretty much. Like, there's no equivalent in North America for someone like this.

And for us, you know, I think we've always been interested in Amitab Bakchan.

We've always liked the idea of Amitab Bakchan.

And we've gone, how are we supposed to get into this?

Because the man has a daunting filmography.

And honestly, there's books written about him, but they're written in a certain style that you get with a lot of

Indian film writing, which is very insubiastic, a lot of just kind of like tabloor journalism kind of

stuff. Not very rigorous. No. But we did read a book this week by Sonny Singh, which was published

by the BFI, simply called Amitab Bakchan, and that's where we

learned most of what we're going to say on this episode. Basically, we're going to recite the stuff

that we learned in that book. But Amitabakchan, you know, over 100 movies, also just like a vast

career that spans 19 generations. 70s to now. We just saw a movie in theaters, a big giant blockbuster that starred him.

And, you know, not only all the cultural changes of India, but he spans media.

He has a very popular Twitter presence.

He hosted the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

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