Bachchan Superman: Hindi cinema in Egypt, 1985-1991

摘要

In 1988, superstar Amitabh Bachchan (b. 1942) made an appearance in an Egyptian commercial film Dreams of Hind and Camelia —potentially without his knowledge. One of Pakistani-Egyptian filmmaker Mohammed Khan’s most popular films, Dreams of Hind and Camelia curiously includes several sequences of Prayag Raaj’s 1985 Hindi film Geraftaar (“Arrested”) in which Amitabh Bachchan co-stars. In keeping with his interest in portraying characters enjoying everyday life, Khan directs a scene in Dreams of Hind and Camelia in which best friends Hind and Camelia see Geraftaar in a theater. In fact, the depiction of cinema-going was one of Khan’s trademarks. Yet Dreams of Hind and Camelia proves exceptional in the way it devotes an entire minute to Geraftaar and Amitabh Bachchan in particular.