April 15 movie: The Amitabh Bachchan Chronicles. We got together with Santa Salsera and watched this collection of Amitabh music videos. We had already seen most of the videos, and it was fun to remember the movies (or try to remember, in some cases). There were a couple I hadn't seen, particularly a really early one with freaky psychedelic effects: Amitabh is praying, and then a ray of light comes down and shines on him in the colors of the rainbow, then he floats up into the sky and sees a vision of figures representing all the major religions in India (all portrayed by Amitabh in costumes and sometimes fake moustaches) and then he sings a song about Indian unity and religious tolerance. We think. There weren't any subtitles so it was hard to tell sometimes.
No songs from some of his best movies: Don, Sholay, or Amar Akbar Anthony. We wondered if it was a rights issue or if those movies are on another volume.
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