In post-Coolie world, Amitabh Bachchan was reborn as a Batman

Movie stars in India are often seen as superheroes, which is probably why our audience has never experienced many desi superheroes on screen. Because why do you need a superhero if your hero can do it all anyway? In the 1970s, when Amitabh Bachchan was known as the ‘angry young man’, he was the man who could do it all. He could punch and kick on screen, he could fight for justice, he could even be the anti-hero, and the audience cheered for him anyway. By all means, he was the superhero of the masses. So when the superhero got injured in a near-fatal accident on the set of Coolie in 1982, it was a shock to the nation. Superheroes are seen as immortal beings, and Bachchan’s brush with death was unimaginable. It was at this time that Bachchan was immortalised as a comic book supe