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This is HOW Amitabh Bachchan became AURO in PAA

by: Bharat Darshan | last updated: December 10, 2009
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This is HOW Amitabh Bachchan became AURO in PAA

Paa, the long awaited R. Balki movie released on 4th December 2009. The movie is about a 12 year Progeria infected kid who is living with his Maternal Grand Mother and gynecologist Mom played by Vidya Balan. Paa is a flick where people go with a mindset to watch Amitabh Bachchan in a completely different role and after watching the movie they realize “Amitabh Bachchan” is actually missing from the movie. Rather it is Auro, a 12 year old kid who has taken over Amitabh Bachchan.

 

Amitabh Bachchan is truly the "Star of the Millennium". It is hard to imagine a 67 year old actor to actually act like a 12 year old kid and Amitabh has done it flawlessly. You’ll not get a single glimpse of Amitabh Bachchan in the movie.

 

Here are the pictures to show as to how Amitabh Bachchan transformed into Auro, a 12 year old kid.  

The most Herculean task about the latest release PAA was transforming a 67-year old Amitabh Bachchan into 13-year old child Auro, suffering from a rare disorder called progeria. So come let's take a short run-through over how Amitabh became Auro.

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The prosthetic makeup, as we know, has been done by Hollywood's Christien Tinsley (The Passion of the Christ, Cat Woman) and Dominie Till (The Lord of The Rings Trilogy).

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According to the reports Bachchan's make-up cost 10 per cent of the total budget.

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It used to take four to five hours daily for Amitabh Bachchan's makeup to be done for his film PAA.

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Not only this, if it used to take four hours to put on the make-up then two hours to remove it.

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There are eight different layers of clay which has been put in his make up in the film.

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While applying the make up he cannot eat, drink and talk for four hours.

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Most of the performance comes out because of the make up.

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Big B wore specially designed dentures so as to effortlessly replicate the voice of a 13-year old child.

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He gets a lisp and his speech pattern gets altered because of the extra teeth.

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He wore the dentures throughout the film's shooting and also had them on while dubbing.

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Infact he has also sung a song in his voice wearing these dentures, which sounds like a child.

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Inspite of his condition, Auro is a happy boy.

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But Big B never ever showed a sign of panic, on the contrary he was always co-operative, patient, cool and full of enthusiasm.

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Director R. Balki deserves a salute for thinking out of the box and also presenting Amitabh Bachchan like never before.

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10 minutes into the film and you forget you’re watching Amitabh Bachchan. For, Auro takes over the moment he is introduced to the viewer.

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Yet, all said and done, PAA is an outstanding film. A film for every paa, every maa… for everyone with a heart. Take a bow, Auro!

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