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Is Big B doing 'The Great Gatsby' for free?

13 September,2011 09:09 AM IST | | The Hitlist Team

It is great news that bade miya Amitabh Bachchan has landed a role in his first Hollywood film, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby

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It is great news that bade miya Amitabh Bachchan has landed a role in his first Hollywood film, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.

What's more, he is doing the film for free. All for a dost. Big B posted on his blog, "He (Baz Luhrmann) called last month and wondered if I would do this small role in his film and I agreed.
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It is a gesture. I have refused any remuneration on this too." Big B's character, Meyer Wolfsheim, is a gambler who helps the Jay Gatsby get rich in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel.

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