Abhishek Bachchan has turned a father, that too of a 13-year-old kid! Don’t get surprised. Junior B is playing dad to his actual father – Big B – in their upcoming movie Paa.It takes five hours for the make-up and 68-year-old Amitabh Bachchan is made to look like a 13-year-old kid as he plays a character called Aaro, suffering from progenia in the film. So an older Amitabh is given child-like looks in the movie. Of course, a whole lot of prosthetics and make-up techniques go into getting the right look. All thanks to international make-up artist duo – Christian Kifle and Dominic – as Big B’s make-up was just perfect.
To achieve this kind of looks, the subject is completely stripped off his clothes and is covered in a layer of make-up. Everything from his nose, eyes and mouth are covered leaving just about a sufficient opening for the person to breathe.In fact, it has been so overwhelming for Bachchan that he has often blogged about the experience.”I drove back to the hotel to another trial of make up for Paa. This has just gotten over and even after a hot shower bits and pieces of prosthetics linger irritatingly all over the body. It almost feels to an outsider as though I were losing all my skin,” he wrote recently.
And for every scene Amitabh had to go through the ordeal of a five-hour make-up routine. Interestingly, it did not end just there. Big B had to sit through another hour and a half routine to take the paint off.”The prosthetics and make up timings are improving as is the ability to eat something with it on. My speech suffers whilst I am in the cover of the moulds. But it comes as an added advantage to the play in the character I portray,” Big B adds.
The makers of the film went through a three-month trial with Big B for a look test. Make-up artists tried new looks everyday before finalising one for the character.
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