The Great Gatsby First Look & Trailer ft. Amitabh Bachchan-Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood

Checkout bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s first appearance in an upcoming Hollywood movie The Great Gatsby. The first look & trailer of upcoming Hollywood movie The Great Gatsby was revealed yesterday.

Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is an upcoming American romantic drama film adaptation of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel of the same name. The Great Gatsby will be directed by Baz Luhrmann, and will star Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway. Amitabh Bachchan and Brendan Maclean are set to make their Hollywood debuts with The Great Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby

Bachchan plays Meyer Wolfsheim, a flamboyant and suave Jewish money lender in the film based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel which stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role along with Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan.

Amitabh Bachchan (left) with Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby"

The 69-year-old bollywood megastar sports a moustache and beard in the photo. Bachchan, who plays a small role of Jewish money lender Meyer Wolfshiem, is seen sitting with DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire.

Happy & excited Bachchan posted on his Twitter account :

“I play Meyer Wolfsheim for about a few seconds… by the time you look down on your popcorn to pick another morsel, I’d be gone from the film…he, he…kinda short service… But with giants of Hollywood – Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire.”

Big B further posted on his account :

“Mr Leonardo DiCaprio – he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin’ to him – He be Gatsby. And Spiderman Tobey Maguire be his good friend. But sittin’ in the frame talkin’ to Spiderman and D (Leonardo), was pretty darn okaaaay! Whadya’ say, me members of the extended families! But they be nice and polite people, I’ll say that… nice and polite.”