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P20-21New Layout 1 20 Friday Friday, May 4, 2018 Lifestyle | Music & Movies Bollywood greats Bachchan, Kapoor reunite after 27 years wo of Bollywood’s greatest stars, cle and getting on it again,” Bachchan, 75, drama “Kabhi Kabhie” (“Sometimes”). Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, told the Press Trust of India news agency “Amar Akbar Anthony” followed in 1977, Twill share a screen together for the first this week. The cinema icon affectionately “Naseeb” in 1981, “Coolie” in 1983 and time in almost three decades when comedy known as “Big B” shot to stardom in the “Ajooba” (“Prodigy”) in 1991. “102 Not Out” is released today. The movie, early 1970s on the back of powerful roles in “You played my step father-in-law in directed by Umesh Shukla, sees Bachchan hits “Zanjeer” and “Sholay”. He was dubbed ‘Kabhi Kabhie’, we were brothers in ‘Amar play a 102-year-old who dreams of becoming India’s “angry young man” for portraying Akbar Anthony’ and ‘Naseeb’. We were the world’s longest-living man by making it to violent heroes fighting an unjust system and friends in ‘Coolie’ and ... in ‘Ajooba’,” 118. But to do so, he decides he has to put his injecting a new aggressive element into Bol- Kapoor, 65, said to Bachchan at a promo- downbeat 75-year-old son, played by lywood movies, which had previously con- tional event attended by AFP. Lately the two Kapoor (who is 65 in reality), into an old peo- sisted of polite romances. Kapoor, part of have enjoyed success playing cantankerous ple’s home. The two actors-who were the India’s legendary Kapoor acting family, old men, notably Bachchan’s turn in “Piku” stars of a string of hits throughout the 1970s made a name for himself as a romantic hero (2015) and Kapoor’s role as a 90-year-old Indian Bollywood actors Rishi Kapoor (left) and Amitabh Bachchan and ‘80s-last paired up for a film in 1991. following his breakthrough role in the 1973 in “Kapoor & Sons” (2016). “102 Not Out” (right) during the song launch for their comedy-drama Hindi film “102 “Getting together after a gap of 27 years classic “Bobby”. Bachchan and Kapoor’s is an adaptation of a popular Gujarati play Not Out” in Mumbai. — AFP with Rishi ji, was just like getting off a bicy- first film together was the 1976 romantic by Saumya Joshi. — AFP ‘Jackass’ prankster Knoxville on his latest eye-popping role lapstick superstar Johnny Knoxville was re- emaCon to promote his new movie “Action Point.” laxing in his hotel after his latest on-set He recalls a day’s shooting for the comedy about a Smishap when some dried blood in his nostril disastrous theme park when he landed flat on his caused him to blow hard and his eyeball popped face after flying 20 feet (six meters) through the air out. Luckily, he hadn’t been eating hot and sour off a slide. soup or taking a bubble bath, and he was able to Knoxville, whose 31 movies include “Men in reach under, scoop it up and push it back into the Black II,” “The Dukes of Hazzard” and four releases socket. It was the latest in a litany of injuries that in the “Jackass” canon, was rushed to the emer- would make the blood drain from the toughest gency room with a bad case of concussion and a stunt professional’s face-but it was far from the fractured eye socket. “I go back to the hotel room most stomach-churning. “I have, like, 15 doctors for and I blow my nose because I had blood there. My different parts of my body and they all have a spe- left eyeball just pops out of my head. It’s like a car- cial talk with me. I don’t know what to tell ‘em,” toon. I was like, ‘Oh no!’ I pushed it back in and I Knoxville shrugs in an interview with AFP. called the producer,” he said. “I was like, ‘You’ve The star-who rose to fame mesmerizing fans got to come get me. My left eyeball just popped with his shocking stunts in MTV’s 2000-2002 re- out of my head.’ He’s like, ‘Ah ha ha ha ha!’ I’m like ality prank series “Jackass”-was at Las Vegas Cin- ‘I’m serious.’ He goes, ‘I’ll be right there.’” ‘Complete anarchy’ The actor, born Philip John Clapp Jr, came up with the idea for “Jackass” 20 years ago, and it quickly became a hit among the skating crowd, making stars of Knoxville, Ehren “Danger Ehren” McGhehey and Stephen “Steve-O” Glover. Cast Live Nation buys key stake members struggled with alcoholism, drug addiction and depression, however. And the series was rocked by the 2011 death of Ryan Dunn in a drunk in iconic Rock in Rio festival driving accident. Knoxville, devastated by the loss of his friend, threw himself back into work, writing ntertainment giant Live Nation said best-known music festival. It has also expanded and appearing in “Movie 43,” “Jackass Presents: Wednesday it will acquire a controlling overseas with editions in Lisbon, Madrid and, in Bad Grandpa” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” stake in the iconic Rock in Rio festival, the 2015, a first US version in Las Vegas that starred In “Action Point,” due out on June 1 in the US, E latest consolidation in the fast-growing world of some of the top names in pop music including Knoxville plays a daredevil who designs and oper- live music. The Los Angeles-based company said Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. ates his own theme park with his friends. The com- it will take a majority stake in Rock in Rio in 2019, Live Nation is the largest live entertainment edy is inspired by Action Park, which opened in although a representative for the festival in Brazil company, promoting tours and handling sales 1978 in Vernon, New Jersey, and built up a reputa- said that the arrangement would be a 50-50 split. through Ticketmaster. Like its rivals, it has increas- tion for poorly designed, unsafe rides and intoxi- The festival’s Brazilian founder, Roberto Medina, ingly set its sights on festivals and has acquired cated and underage staff. Six people are known to will maintain a key role in organizing the festival, major events such as Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and have died at the center-dubbed “Accident Park” by Live Nation said. “The partnership will generate Austin City Limits in the United States and the nearby hospitals-and eventually it was buried a number of synergies that will enable the real- Leeds and Reading festivals in England. Festivals under an avalanche of personal injury lawsuits. ization of even greater ambitions for Rock in have grown sharply in number, attendance and “Gene Mulvihill ran it and he didn’t have any rules Rio,” Medina said in a statement. profitability since the turn of the century, becom- for the kids. He let them design their own rides. I Rock in Rio has its roots in the fall of Brazil’s ing a rite of passage for many young people in the mean, it was just complete anarchy,” said Knoxville. military dictatorship in 1985 when a total of Western world. With their growth, festivals have The movie contains some of the daredevil’s most nearly 1.4 million people came out for 10 days of also turned into one of the music industry’s major Johnny Knoxville attends Teton Gravity Research’s hair-raising stunts yet, but he insists he doesn’t ac- music that included Queen, Rod Stewart, AC/DC money generators, and companies such as Live “Andy Iron’s Kissed By God” World Premiere at Regency tually enjoy pain. He’s not even that addicted to the and Yes. With a seventh edition taking place last Nation look set to maximize efficiency by running Village Theatre in Westwood, California. — AFP adrenaline rush, he says. — AFP year, Rock in Rio has become South America’s multiple events. — AFP.
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