Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 12:17AM So this is an email from my friend Baba, who is a diehard Amitabh Bachchan fan...enjoy!
Dear Friends,
Good Afternoon to one and all!! I hope you are doing well and had a GREAT weekend!! This past weekend, Me and Waqas went to Houston to go see the Amitabh Bachchan concert in Houston. I have to tell you all that it was truly one of the best concerts I have ever been to and seen. We left for Houston on Saturday afternoon, and got to Houston at about close to 5. The concert was at the Toyota Center in downtown Houston. We arrived there at about 8:30 as the concert had the time to start at 9:00. The concert actually started at 9:30. The place was packed that night, as I had heard that a crowd of 12,000 people attended the concert that night. A judge from Harris County in Houston officially declared August 2nd, 2008 as Bollywood Day. HE started talking about the energy this show was brinThe first star to come out was Ritesh Deshmukh, and he was really good throughout the whole show. He came out and told everybody that he was really nervous opening up the show but after all the cheers and applause his fears and nervousness went away. After Ritesh left the stage, the next star to come out with Preity Zinta. She came out to the song "Where's the party tonight"....After the song finished she came out and thanked everybody for coming out and also telling Houston that it was going to be a awesome show. After she left, the lights went out and the two screens on the left and right of the stage came on and showed pictures of Abhishek Bachchan. At that time, the crowd was going wild and cheering loud. When the lights to the arena came back on, everybody was looking toward the stage to see when Abhishek was coming out. BUT, he did not come out on stage. He came from the top row of the lower lever section and walked all the way down to the floor, with security and then on to the stage. Everyone was trying to reach him when he was walking from the lower level to the stage. The music to "One Love" came on, and as he came on s tage, he walked around and started waving to the entire crowd, and people were cheering loud. As he was on stage, a trolly came to the center of the stage, and he got inside it. The trolly rose up to probably 15 to 20 feet in the air, maybe more and started moving forward toward the crowd and audience. He was on the microphone cheering and telling the audience to yell out and make noise loudly. It was one of the coolest things I had seen any actor do..it was awesome!! When the trolly came back on stage, he started doing songs to Bunty and Babli. After he finished dancing to the songs he got on the microphone and was thanking the entire audience for coming out tonight and being so supportive and giving so much love to the Bachchan Family. He went on to say, "I am going to let you in on a little secret. Today is a very meaningful and very special day for the Bachchan Family. Today is my Father's Birthday. He went on to say that his Father's birthday is acutally in October, but today was his second Birthday and he wanted the fans to cheer and wish Amitabh a Happy Birthday when he came on to the stage. The reason for it being his second birthday that August 2nd, was the day that Amitabh Bachchan became well after the accident he suffered on the sets of Coolie back in 1982. It was on that day, that he got well and survived a fatal accident. I know all the Bachchan fans remember that scene where he got hurt on the sets of Coolie, and will never forget that scene. Anyways, as he was going along talking he tells everyone that the next performer to come to the stage is a very talented actress and is also extremely beautiful. At this time, Abhishek was walking toward the side where me and Waqas were sitting. Waqas being the dumb befkoof :) he is, starts shouting "Bhabhi!!!! Bhabhi!!!"....as Abhishek was walking toward the opposite side of the stage from us, he stops about halfway, turns a round and looks at the direction of me and Waqas and he actually blows a kiss at Waqas....folks, I am not kidding!!! This is 100% true and a fact....it was so funny and hilarious...we could not stop laughing!! At that time, the lights went out again and a video was shown on Aishwarya Rai. She came on to the stage, and was performing to the music of "Dhoom". She danced to "Crazy Kiya Re" and other songs from that movie. Overall, she thanked everyone for coming and hoped that everybody enjoyed the show.
By that time, I was waiting and waiting for The King, THE TRUE KING, Big B to come to the stage...however, an announcer announced on the microphone that there is a very special star coming to talk about the effects of Global warming, and what was as Desi's can do to help in this cause.....he introduced Jaya Bachchan to the stage, and she came out to a roar of cheer and applause. She started talking about Global Warming and the effects that it was causing to the planet and how we can help in this cause. After that, on the two screens of the stage Akshay Kumar came on the video talking about it also and asking the audience to please help in this cause. By that time, I had gotten my camera ready on video waiting for the moment to arrive when Amitabh Bachchan(THE KING!!) to come on stage....and it finally happened!! On the screens(left and right of the stage) the word "LEGEND" came out and appeared on the screen.....EVERYONE in the Toyota Center knew who was about to come out. They showed a 2 to 3 minute video on Amitabh(which I am PROUD TO SAY I have recorded on my camera, and still gives me chills and goosebumps watching it....by the way, I am going to put that on youtube for everyone to see.....it's AWESOME!!). After the video was done, the dancers came on stage and started dancing to the song "Jahan Teri Yeh Nazaar Hai" from Kaalia(one of Delhi Friend's favorite...right Prashant!!) and when Amitabh Bachchan appeared on stage the entire place went crazy!! People who were sitting on the floor almost all of them stood up and were taking pictures of Amitabh!! It was just an awesome scene to sit and watch the crowd!! He started singing to songs of Kaalia, Don and Sil Sila. People just loved it when he was singing "Rang Barse" from Sil Sila....the man was just AWESOME!! After he finished singing he thanked everybody for coming and thanked everybody for their love and support. From there, we had two guys who came out on stage to sing songs (Vishal and Shekhar) and they overall were okay....not that great, but who cared....I sure didn't care about them!!
After they had left, the next star that came on stage, in my opinion, got probably the second largest cheer and applause of the night and that was Madhuri Dixit. She first came on stage and danced to the music of "Dil toh Paagal Hai" and from there, she started dancing songs to "Beta" and "Tezaab". She overally looked great, and gave a GREAT performance that night. People were cheering loudly for her....she was amazing!!
After that, the lights went out, and it was dark throughout the Toyota Center....on the microphone came out Abhishek speaking, and said "Dad, I want you to know that I love you very much, and this next item I am dedicating to you". When the curtain came up, you see Abhishek sitting on a munji, and he starts to dance to Kishore Kumar's "Khaike Paan Banaraswala".....the place went nuts!! He actually looked like Amitabh from "Don" in that scene and it was too too too cool!!!! After the song finished, you then started to hear the music to "Pardesia" from Mr. Natwarlal begin and you see Ashwarya Rai singing and dancing to it.....she is doing the part of Rekha, and then comes out Abhishek doing the part of Amitabh....again the place went crazy!!
After they left the stage, and finished the song, again out comes Vishal and Shekhar....WHY GOD WHY!!!! They started singing songs from Bluffmaster and Bachchana Eh Haseeno......as they finished....not a moment too soon, you start to hear the music of "Sara Zamana" from "Yaarana" and all 4(Abhishek, Ritesh, Ashwarya and Preity) wore the the outfit that lighted up when Amitabh sang this awesome song.....as the song was going on, they formed a circle, and out comes Amitabh who sang the last two lines from the movie....the best part of it all was he was singing to it with Kishore Kumar in the background.....absolutely priceless!!!!!
The dancers who were in the show, came out and did some dances from various films, and then the stars did a tribute on India and were dancing to different regions of India. First came out Amitabh who was dancing to the region of Punjab(YEAH BABY!!!). He danced first to the song from Khuddar(I love you!) and then to "Say Shava Shava". After that, came out Preity who danced to the region of Kashmir....she danced to the song "Bhumro Bhumro" from Mission Kashmir. After that, Ritesh came out and danced to the region Maharashtra. From there, Abhishek came out and I can't remember what region he danced to, but he and Aishwarya danced to a song from the movie "Guru" and everyone really enjoyed that number they did together from all the songs they danced to together from the show. You can really see from that number they did, that they really love each other and are very happy together...it was neat!! This song got them the most applause together. BUT, BUT, BUT the highlight by far was the dance performed by Aishwarya and Madhuri to the song "Dhola Re Dhola" from Devdas. When the crowd heard that Aishwarya and Madhuri were doing a dance together everybody knew that the song was going to be done and it WAS INCREDIBLE...I am not a huge Madhuri fan, but I have to admit....this was my first time seeing her perform and she rocked!! After that song finished, the crowd gave it a standing ovation, and they were all shouting "once more!! once more!!"...everyone wanted to see it again.....by this time, it was time for some magic....and on stage, comes back Amitabh Bachchan(THE KING!!) and he started to do dialogues from Kabhi Kabhie, Agneepath(which was awesome!!) and also Deewaar....I have to tell you guys that when he did Deewaar, the expression and the look on his face was just incredible!! While he was doing his dialogues, everyone in the Toyota Center went dead silent, and that is no joke!! It was completely silent, an d while he spoke.....no one said a word!! As he was doing his dialogue from deewaar, his facial expression was incredible, and yes he did cry at the end of that magical dialogue!! I DARE ANY ACTOR IN BOLLYWOOD, ANY ACTOR....YES EVEN THAT STUPID SHAHRUKH KHAN...A.K.A. "GOBI PAKORDA" TO TRY TO DO THAT SCENE AND HE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO DO IT....NO WAY, NO HOW!!" When he was doing the dialgoues, I shouted twice "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!!!!!" He was wearing an awesome awesome sherwani, and he looked too too too good!! At that age of 62, and to be doing dancing and performing with people half his age and him keeping up and teaching a lesson to them was just amazing....simply incredible!! After he did those, it was almost time for the show to be over. Out came Priety and Abhishek who started dancing to "Rock and Roll Soniye"....and then the lights went off again and then you heard the music to "Kajara Re" and the place was clapping and cheering loud like anything!! Aishwarya, Abhishek and Amitabh danced to the song and it was great to see!!
Dear Friends,
Good Afternoon to one and all!! I hope you are doing well and had a GREAT weekend!! This past weekend, Me and Waqas went to Houston to go see the Amitabh Bachchan concert in Houston. I have to tell you all that it was truly one of the best concerts I have ever been to and seen. We left for Houston on Saturday afternoon, and got to Houston at about close to 5. The concert was at the Toyota Center in downtown Houston. We arrived there at about 8:30 as the concert had the time to start at 9:00. The concert actually started at 9:30. The place was packed that night, as I had heard that a crowd of 12,000 people attended the concert that night. A judge from Harris County in Houston officially declared August 2nd, 2008 as Bollywood Day. HE started talking about the energy this show was brinThe first star to come out was Ritesh Deshmukh, and he was really good throughout the whole show. He came out and told everybody that he was really nervous opening up the show but after all the cheers and applause his fears and nervousness went away. After Ritesh left the stage, the next star to come out with Preity Zinta. She came out to the song "Where's the party tonight"....After the song finished she came out and thanked everybody for coming out and also telling Houston that it was going to be a awesome show. After she left, the lights went out and the two screens on the left and right of the stage came on and showed pictures of Abhishek Bachchan. At that time, the crowd was going wild and cheering loud. When the lights to the arena came back on, everybody was looking toward the stage to see when Abhishek was coming out. BUT, he did not come out on stage. He came from the top row of the lower lever section and walked all the way down to the floor, with security and then on to the stage. Everyone was trying to reach him when he was walking from the lower level to the stage. The music to "One Love" came on, and as he came on s tage, he walked around and started waving to the entire crowd, and people were cheering loud. As he was on stage, a trolly came to the center of the stage, and he got inside it. The trolly rose up to probably 15 to 20 feet in the air, maybe more and started moving forward toward the crowd and audience. He was on the microphone cheering and telling the audience to yell out and make noise loudly. It was one of the coolest things I had seen any actor do..it was awesome!! When the trolly came back on stage, he started doing songs to Bunty and Babli. After he finished dancing to the songs he got on the microphone and was thanking the entire audience for coming out tonight and being so supportive and giving so much love to the Bachchan Family. He went on to say, "I am going to let you in on a little secret. Today is a very meaningful and very special day for the Bachchan Family. Today is my Father's Birthday. He went on to say that his Father's birthday is acutally in October, but today was his second Birthday and he wanted the fans to cheer and wish Amitabh a Happy Birthday when he came on to the stage. The reason for it being his second birthday that August 2nd, was the day that Amitabh Bachchan became well after the accident he suffered on the sets of Coolie back in 1982. It was on that day, that he got well and survived a fatal accident. I know all the Bachchan fans remember that scene where he got hurt on the sets of Coolie, and will never forget that scene. Anyways, as he was going along talking he tells everyone that the next performer to come to the stage is a very talented actress and is also extremely beautiful. At this time, Abhishek was walking toward the side where me and Waqas were sitting. Waqas being the dumb befkoof :) he is, starts shouting "Bhabhi!!!! Bhabhi!!!"....as Abhishek was walking toward the opposite side of the stage from us, he stops about halfway, turns a round and looks at the direction of me and Waqas and he actually blows a kiss at Waqas....folks, I am not kidding!!! This is 100% true and a fact....it was so funny and hilarious...we could not stop laughing!! At that time, the lights went out again and a video was shown on Aishwarya Rai. She came on to the stage, and was performing to the music of "Dhoom". She danced to "Crazy Kiya Re" and other songs from that movie. Overall, she thanked everyone for coming and hoped that everybody enjoyed the show.
By that time, I was waiting and waiting for The King, THE TRUE KING, Big B to come to the stage...however, an announcer announced on the microphone that there is a very special star coming to talk about the effects of Global warming, and what was as Desi's can do to help in this cause.....he introduced Jaya Bachchan to the stage, and she came out to a roar of cheer and applause. She started talking about Global Warming and the effects that it was causing to the planet and how we can help in this cause. After that, on the two screens of the stage Akshay Kumar came on the video talking about it also and asking the audience to please help in this cause. By that time, I had gotten my camera ready on video waiting for the moment to arrive when Amitabh Bachchan(THE KING!!) to come on stage....and it finally happened!! On the screens(left and right of the stage) the word "LEGEND" came out and appeared on the screen.....EVERYONE in the Toyota Center knew who was about to come out. They showed a 2 to 3 minute video on Amitabh(which I am PROUD TO SAY I have recorded on my camera, and still gives me chills and goosebumps watching it....by the way, I am going to put that on youtube for everyone to see.....it's AWESOME!!). After the video was done, the dancers came on stage and started dancing to the song "Jahan Teri Yeh Nazaar Hai" from Kaalia(one of Delhi Friend's favorite...right Prashant!!) and when Amitabh Bachchan appeared on stage the entire place went crazy!! People who were sitting on the floor almost all of them stood up and were taking pictures of Amitabh!! It was just an awesome scene to sit and watch the crowd!! He started singing to songs of Kaalia, Don and Sil Sila. People just loved it when he was singing "Rang Barse" from Sil Sila....the man was just AWESOME!! After he finished singing he thanked everybody for coming and thanked everybody for their love and support. From there, we had two guys who came out on stage to sing songs (Vishal and Shekhar) and they overall were okay....not that great, but who cared....I sure didn't care about them!!
After they had left, the next star that came on stage, in my opinion, got probably the second largest cheer and applause of the night and that was Madhuri Dixit. She first came on stage and danced to the music of "Dil toh Paagal Hai" and from there, she started dancing songs to "Beta" and "Tezaab". She overally looked great, and gave a GREAT performance that night. People were cheering loudly for her....she was amazing!!
After that, the lights went out, and it was dark throughout the Toyota Center....on the microphone came out Abhishek speaking, and said "Dad, I want you to know that I love you very much, and this next item I am dedicating to you". When the curtain came up, you see Abhishek sitting on a munji, and he starts to dance to Kishore Kumar's "Khaike Paan Banaraswala".....the place went nuts!! He actually looked like Amitabh from "Don" in that scene and it was too too too cool!!!! After the song finished, you then started to hear the music to "Pardesia" from Mr. Natwarlal begin and you see Ashwarya Rai singing and dancing to it.....she is doing the part of Rekha, and then comes out Abhishek doing the part of Amitabh....again the place went crazy!!
After they left the stage, and finished the song, again out comes Vishal and Shekhar....WHY GOD WHY!!!! They started singing songs from Bluffmaster and Bachchana Eh Haseeno......as they finished....not a moment too soon, you start to hear the music of "Sara Zamana" from "Yaarana" and all 4(Abhishek, Ritesh, Ashwarya and Preity) wore the the outfit that lighted up when Amitabh sang this awesome song.....as the song was going on, they formed a circle, and out comes Amitabh who sang the last two lines from the movie....the best part of it all was he was singing to it with Kishore Kumar in the background.....absolutely priceless!!!!!
The dancers who were in the show, came out and did some dances from various films, and then the stars did a tribute on India and were dancing to different regions of India. First came out Amitabh who was dancing to the region of Punjab(YEAH BABY!!!). He danced first to the song from Khuddar(I love you!) and then to "Say Shava Shava". After that, came out Preity who danced to the region of Kashmir....she danced to the song "Bhumro Bhumro" from Mission Kashmir. After that, Ritesh came out and danced to the region Maharashtra. From there, Abhishek came out and I can't remember what region he danced to, but he and Aishwarya danced to a song from the movie "Guru" and everyone really enjoyed that number they did together from all the songs they danced to together from the show. You can really see from that number they did, that they really love each other and are very happy together...it was neat!! This song got them the most applause together. BUT, BUT, BUT the highlight by far was the dance performed by Aishwarya and Madhuri to the song "Dhola Re Dhola" from Devdas. When the crowd heard that Aishwarya and Madhuri were doing a dance together everybody knew that the song was going to be done and it WAS INCREDIBLE...I am not a huge Madhuri fan, but I have to admit....this was my first time seeing her perform and she rocked!! After that song finished, the crowd gave it a standing ovation, and they were all shouting "once more!! once more!!"...everyone wanted to see it again.....by this time, it was time for some magic....and on stage, comes back Amitabh Bachchan(THE KING!!) and he started to do dialogues from Kabhi Kabhie, Agneepath(which was awesome!!) and also Deewaar....I have to tell you guys that when he did Deewaar, the expression and the look on his face was just incredible!! While he was doing his dialogues, everyone in the Toyota Center went dead silent, and that is no joke!! It was completely silent, an d while he spoke.....no one said a word!! As he was doing his dialogue from deewaar, his facial expression was incredible, and yes he did cry at the end of that magical dialogue!! I DARE ANY ACTOR IN BOLLYWOOD, ANY ACTOR....YES EVEN THAT STUPID SHAHRUKH KHAN...A.K.A. "GOBI PAKORDA" TO TRY TO DO THAT SCENE AND HE WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO DO IT....NO WAY, NO HOW!!" When he was doing the dialgoues, I shouted twice "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!!!!!" He was wearing an awesome awesome sherwani, and he looked too too too good!! At that age of 62, and to be doing dancing and performing with people half his age and him keeping up and teaching a lesson to them was just amazing....simply incredible!! After he did those, it was almost time for the show to be over. Out came Priety and Abhishek who started dancing to "Rock and Roll Soniye"....and then the lights went off again and then you heard the music to "Kajara Re" and the place was clapping and cheering loud like anything!! Aishwarya, Abhishek and Amitabh danced to the song and it was great to see!!
The show started at 9:30 and finished close to 1:30 in the morning. By far, this was truly one of the BEST and most organized concerts I have ever been to. The security was very tight, so there was no way that anyone came on to the stage from the audience....but it was done so professionally and everyone was great and spectacular!! Boy, this is one long email huh!!! :) :) I can't tell you how much it was a blast for me. I paid $200.00 for my ticket, and I would not have minded paying for it again to see the show....I truly got my money's worth..... It was too special and too great....I got to see my Idol, my Guru Amitabh Bachchan and he was THE GREATEST!!! The show was spectacular and it was just awesome!!! The seats me and Waqas had were just TOO SSSSWWWEEETTT We were on the side of the stage, in section 106, and we had second row seats...seat 1 and 2. To compare that to floor lever, is like saying we had 5th row seats center.....we were probably made 7 to 15 feet away from the stage.....it was awesome seats!!!! It was so worth the money!!
I will be sending you guys pics from the concert in a day or two. I am definetely going to put that video on youtube for you guys to see when Amitabh Bachchan first came on stage....THAT WAS AWESOME!!! The video I have is like close to 8 minutes long....I will send it soon, so watch out for it. Thanks for letting me write you guys a HUGE EMAIL!!! Adios!!
Bachchan Always and Forever!!!
Baba :)Performers who got the most applause and cheer:
1. Amitabh Bachchan(THE KING!!) - OF COURSE!!!!
2. Madhuri Dixit
3. Abhishek Bachchan
4. Aishwarya Rai
5. Priety Zinta
6. Ritesh Deshmukh
6. Vishal and Shekhar
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