Big B Turns 'Shady'; Flamboyant Hues For Beard And Hair?

Call it 'sangat ka asar', if you will. Amitabh Bachchan, it seems, has been inspired by his new best buddy, Aamir Khan; for all of a sudden, the Big B is getting experimental about his looks, a la the 'Ghajini' star.

For the past several years, ever since he returned to the industry riding on his 'Crorepati' wave, Amitabh Bachchan has been sporting a single look, fairly, with the dark hair and the pepper grey goatee. Now, however, in two films, back to back, Bachchan is all set to experiment with two different looks.

It's common knowledge now that in 'Aarakshan', Big B is trying to mould himself as a carbon copy of the film's director, Prakash Jha, trimmed beard and hair and all. But what many aren't aware of is that his most interesting look will be in 'Boodha', the film he is doing for Southern director Puri Jagannath. The director reveals that Bachchan is playing a 60 year old character who still believes he is 25 and gets riled if anyone calls him a 'boodha'. And naturally, Amitabh will be dressing the part too.

For the film, Bachchan is all set to go the psychedelic way, dressing like how a hep youngster would today. And while his costumes will go the mod way, the most interesting part of the get up involves what Jagganath intends to do to Big B's famous coif. For the director intends to dye both, Bachchan's hair and beard in just as psychedelic and flamboyant colours as well!

While the filmmaker hasn't finalised a colour for Bachchan's hair, he is sure that it will either be a red tinted colour, or some other equally flashy hue, in keeping with his character. While one can't quite imagine how the Big B will look, come the coloured hair, one is quite sure that with Bachchan himself turning experimental, quite a few of his younger colleagues should get ready to turn various shades of green with envy…!