Big B is in a mood to display only good feelings for SRK.

He drove to his suburban Bandra seaside bungalow ‘Mannat’ and advised King Khan not to take the post-surgery period lightly.

The two film stars have worked together in films like ‘Mohabbatein’ and ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam’. But then there were talks about a rivalry between the two for a long time especially after Shah Rukh acted in the remake of one of Bachchan’s most popular films ‘Don’ and also replaced him as host in the popular game show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’.

He wasn’t invited to the Abhi-Ash wedding but in October 2008 he was seen at the Drona premiere.

Khan underwent an arthroscopic surgery to repair the tear in the main muscle of his left shoulder at the Breach Candy hospital on February 16 and was discharged on the 17th. The actor has been advised six weeks’ rest.

Earlier there was a telephonic conversation between he two actors during which he told the actor ‘not to take his post- surgery period lightly and avoid any kind of activity’. The ‘badshah’ told Bachchan that he was feeling depressed in the hospital and so he came home.

Bachchan had messaged him with wishes for speedy recovery and Shah Rukh called him back to thank him.

For the uninitiated, Big B had written on his blog, “I had sent him a message for his speedy recovery. He called back to thank and inform me that he is home. ‘I was getting depressed in hospital, so came away.’

Amitabh messaged him: “I was planning to visit you in the hospital” and Shah Rukh replied saying: “Come home sir, we shall play some games.”

Big B then wrote about Shah Rukh, “He sounds a little groggy. I shall visit him tomorrow.”

Let’s see if this marks the beginning of a new B-Town dosti

Guess what The suspense is out for Mr. Bachchan has done a cameo in Abhishek’s much awaited Delhi6.

The producers of Delhi 6, UTV and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra had kept Amitabh as a suspense element. Fortunate or unfortunate it is out.

Big B first appears in a photograph, when Waheeda Rehman walks into the ancestral home and refers to Bachchan Sr as her husband. Bachchan Sr enacts the role of Abhishek’s grandfather in the film.

It is out that Mr. Bachchan makes an entry towards the end of the film, during a very crucial part of the climax. This sequence in the film will once again bring the real-life father-son together in reel-life

So far the closest any filmmaker has come to changing Amitabh Bachchan’s look was Raj Kumar Santoshi who got the icon to trim his trademark beard to play the cop in Khakee.

Now Balki, the mega-star’s close friend and creative ally who made the generation-challenged romance Cheeni Kam, will completely change the Big B’s look in their next film together.

The actor requires a new look, and for this purpose Balki has acquired the services of the renowned Hollywood makeup artiste Stephan Dupuis.

Dupuis, a two-time Oscar winner was responsible for Robin Williams’ utterly-credible drag act in Mrs Doubtfire.

Says Balki, “My new film Pa requires very careful calibration. Mr Bachchan will be changing over to a completely new look for the role. I won’t say we don’t have any makeup artistes in India who could’ve done the needful. But after seeing Dupuis’ work in Mrs Doubtfire I felt he was the right person to give Mr Bachchan the makeover he requires.”

The hyper-busy actor known to be extremely finicky about get-ups and false hair pieces has decided to surrender completely to Balki and Dupuis’ vision.

The internationally saluted makeup maestro who has recently styled Sean Penn in the celebrated bio-pic Milk, was familiar with the Big B’s work and is now catching some of his best films on DVD to see how far the actor has experimented with his looks in the past.

Interestingly Mr Bachchan has never done too many variations on his looks.

Not counting the wizened facial disguise in Aakhri Raasta and Sooryvansham to play the patriarch, the elaborate takeoff on Mehmood in Desh Premi and the eunuch’s song in Lawaaris.

Balki the super-gifted admaker who gave a new twist to the concept of cross-generation love by casting Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu as a pair in Cheeni Kum is all set to start his second feature film Pa.

But this time, no Tabu.

In Chennai to finalize the illustrious Ilayaraja for the music and P.C. Sreeram for the cinematography Balki explains, “I’d have loved to cast Tabu again. But Mr Bachchan has no romantic lead opposite him and it’d have looked really odd to cast Tabu opposite Abhishek so soon after she had played his father’s co-star.”

So Vidya Balan, it is.

But the focus is on the father-son jodi. A bit of a cliché, no, to cat Senior and Junior Bachchan as father and son in a film called Pa?

“You have to see it to know what they play. This is not a conventional father-son story. If Cheeni Kum was a casual comedy Pa is a casual tragedy.”

The film will be shot in Delhi and Gwalior

Amitabh honoured at Davos

megastar Amitabh Bacchan was honoured with World Economic Forum's (WEF) Crystal Award here for his contribution to the world of art.

Noted Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi dancer Mallika Sarabhai was also honoured Saturday along with Chinese martial artist and actor Jet Li and Venezuelan musician José Antonio Abreu.

The WEF is a Geneva based non-profit organisation and brings together top business leaders, political leaders, and selected intellectuals to discuss the most pressing issues worldwide.

This year marks the 39th annual gathering of the organization which focused largely on the growing economic depression which has crippled the world market.

Can u believe that once Amitabh Bachchan was not given an autograph by the legendry Dilip Kumar? Well it is true. Do not jump into conclusions as at that time Big B was a young fellow who had come to Mumbai as a tourist.

The unfolding of events during Mr.Bachchan's meeting with Dilip Kumar in 1960 makes up for an interesting reading material.

Check it out from the film star's own words:

"I remember the first time I ever saw him. I had come to Bombay as a visitor with my parents. My father was here to take part in a Kavi Sammelan. Our hosts had taken us out to visit some of the awe inspiring sights and locations of this great city, which for small time and small town me had been like a dream, a fantasy, unperceivable and unimaginable.

It was a prominent restaurant, in now what is commonly referred to as South Bombay, where Dilip Kumar, the Dilip Kumar, walked in. Standing majestically some distance from the entrance door in conversation with some friends, animated and oblivious to the excited occupants of the eatery.

Urged by the elders and eager to go up and greet him and to ask him to oblige us with an autograph, I ran out of the restaurant to a nearby stationary store to buy an autograph book.

Out of breath with excitement and apprehension, I walked back to the legend and softly put up my request. Poised statue like, hand extended with the book, I repeated my quivering words to him. He remained unmoved. Either to me or to the book. In a short while, he turned and left. I followed his departure, book in hand and a little embarrassed and self-conscious and disappointed, returned to my seat, consoled by the elders with me not to take it personally. He may not have noticed you, or perhaps he was too busy with what was transpiring between him and is friends. I understood with some trepidation. End of meeting with Dilip Kumar.

Time passed. The premier of my film 'Black' and I am honored by the presence of Dilip Saheb at the IMAX in Wadala for it.. After the film was over, I found him waiting outside the theatre for me to emerge. I walked up to him. He stretched out his hands to me and held both of mine and stood looking me in the eye, without saying a word. An eternity passed. No one spoke.

They were the most eloquent moments in my life with Mr Dilip Kumar!!

Two days later a letter came from him applauding my work. And signed, DILIP KUMAR

After 46 years I got the autograph I had craved for.