{"id":5581,"date":"2007-05-28T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2007-05-28T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T20:01:00","slug":"sex-amitabh-bachchan-and-the-iron-pillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/sex-amitabh-bachchan-and-the-iron-pillar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Amitabh Bachchan and the Iron Pillar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine Amitabh Bachchan standing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-mysteries.com\/sar_ironpillar.htm\" title=\"Iron Pillar\">Iron Pillar<\/a>, trying to put his arms around it and babbling, &#8220;I want sexy. <i>Maa, mujhe sexy chahiye<\/i>. I want sexy.&#8221; Even in Hindi films can this not happen, you would imagine. But (spoiler alert) in <i>Cheeni Kum<\/i> it does. The film has many charming moments, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bathos\" title=\"Bathos -- Wikipedia\">bathos<\/a> in the last one-third of the film destroys it. <\/p>\n<p>The dialogue above sounds ridiculous out of context, but is even more ridiculous <i>in<\/i> context. Quite as much so as Amitabh&#8217;s dialogue earlier in the film about the level of the water rising because the fish are crying. Tabu looks lovely and acts well, but really, her character, what is she thinking? The problem with the character she loves in the film is not that his age is 64, but that his IQ is.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody <a href=\"\/children-and-the-nouveau-riche\/\" title=\"Children and the nouveau riche\">kicked my chair<\/a> during this film, sadly. I&#8217;m almost beginning to miss it. <i>Some<\/i> entertainment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine Amitabh Bachchan standing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-mysteries.com\/sar_ironpillar.htm\" title=\"Iron Pillar\">Iron Pillar<\/a>, trying to put his arms around it and babbling, &#8220;I want sexy. <i>Maa, mujhe sexy chahiye<\/i>. I want sexy.&#8221; Even in Hindi films can this not happen, you would imagine. But (spoiler alert) in <i>Cheeni Kum<\/i> it does. The film has many charming moments, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bathos\" title=\"Bathos -- Wikipedia\">bathos<\/a> in the last one-third of the film destroys it. <\/p>\n<p>The dialogue above sounds ridiculous out of context, but is even more ridiculous <i>in<\/i> context. Quite as much so as Amitabh&#8217;s dialogue earlier in the film about the level of the water rising because the fish are crying. Tabu looks lovely and acts well, but really, her character, what is she thinking? The problem with the character she loves in the film is not that his age is 64, but that his IQ is.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/children-and-the-nouveau-riche\/\" title=\"Children and the nouveau riche\">kicked my chair<\/a> during this film, sadly. I&#8217;m almost beginning to miss it. <i>Some<\/i> entertainment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sex, Amitabh Bachchan and the Iron Pillar - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/sex-amitabh-bachchan-and-the-iron-pillar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sex, Amitabh Bachchan and the Iron Pillar - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Imagine Amitabh Bachchan standing at the Iron Pillar, trying to put his arms around it and babbling, &#8220;I want sexy. 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