Over that incredible career his persona, his screen presence, has meant different things to different people. It all comes down to gender, taste, age, but it is rare to find a single admirer of Bollywood throughout the world to disagree with one conclusion: Amitabh Bachchan towers over Indian cinema like no other.
In his heyday, when he established his Angry Young Man persona — Zanjeer, Deewaar, Sholay — and later on when he fine-tuned his comedy chops and charm offensive — Don, Amar Akbar Anthony-he made all other actors, songs, musicians, dance sequences, infinitesimal in comparison.