Krish on Amitabh Bachchan

As a kid who grew in the 80s, all i can say that Amitabh is the greatest superstar there has ever been. My first movie of his in theatre was the 5th or 6th rerun of Mr Natwarlal in Anand theatre Thane and that was sometime in 1984 or 1985 when the movie actually came in 1979 and i saw that in a packed house then. Unfortunately the electricity went and we had to come back home sadly 😦

Probably it is during release of Shahenshah when i probably got real taste of his craze as i was slightly older around 12 years. The school that whole week was all about that Mukhtar Singh dialogue etc…
I probably must have seen all his movies of 1970 and 1980s in the 1980s even though the movies were not running and it was hard to see those movies as one needs to rent the video casette etc. The pains we used to go to rent out his older movies like Majboor or Great Gambler and see it is also in some form a tribute to his stardom as it was actually a cumbersome exercise which we were willing to undertake. Movies like Raste ke Pathhar, bAnde Haath etc which didnt do well when released and of which the video casette were not available for anyone to see were considered as some sort of iconic movies purely because they were not seen by anyone. One guy who had seen Parwana was literally a hero as he was only one who had seen it 🙂 Movies where he died in the end were movies which we avoided as no one can come around to see that and left a lump in the throat. And then there was that one scene in each of his movies which was talked about so much it is fresh in memory even today
Kaalia – The Jail scene
natwarlal – The song he sung
Hum – the cockroach scene
MKS – his death scene
Yarana – The dance with lights
Faraar – because it was a negative role
Chupke Chupke – The biology scene
Khoon Pasina/Ram Balram- the fight with tiger (Literally everyone were queueing to see this trash because he fought with a tiger :))
I can go on and recount that 1 scene or dialogue of his every movie which people were thrilled or curious about. Literally all this is nothing but superstardom. Its not just the day 1 footfalls but what stays with you about even some of his trashy movies that defines his superstardom.

Defining AB on basis on ATBB or lack of one – to be honest i was not even aware of all of this as personally i always think every movie of his was a BB then, is a pointless and also a faulty exercise as Marcus said very well earlier.
SRK in isolation is a big superstar and can stand on his own merits and even more so now after Pathaan. AB does not need to figure in this discourse at all