Amitabh Bachchan in Hollywood ??

In India, there is a buzz
around the May release
of the movie, The Great
Gatsby. Hollywood is
also just as excited
about one of their most
ambitious products.
From what we have
been reading, the buzz
is not merely because
of the lead stars,
Leonardo DiCaprio and
Tobey Maguire, but a
certain Bollywood legend, who
is reportedly causing
the maximum stir.
Hollywood, for the first
time, got a glimpse of
the fabled acting
prowess of Indian
cinema’s biggest
superstar, Amitabh
Bachchan, who plays
the shrewd and
flamboyant Jewish
gambler Meyer
Wolfsheim in the film
produced by Warner
Bros.
Big B has apparently
impressed everyone,
including the critics,
with a single scene that
marks his rather-late
Hollywood debut in the
film adapted from
American author F Scott
Fitzgerald’s novel by the
same name.
The other reason for
the excitement around
Bachchan’s character is
because of the fact
that this is the first
time an actor outside
the cultural periphery of
the west is portraying
it. Meyer Woflsheim
was first played in 1926
by Pennsylvania-born
George Nash.