{"id":13489,"date":"2016-06-14T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/?p=13489"},"modified":"2016-06-14T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:30:37","slug":"anupam-khers-500th-film-the-big-sick-with-holly-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/anupam-khers-500th-film-the-big-sick-with-holly-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Anupam Kher Announces 500th Film &#8216;The Big Sick&#8217; on His Wife Kiron Kher\u2019s Birthday Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>This morning veteran Indian actor Anupam Kher woke up to congratulations from his fans and co-stars including Robert De Niro.<\/strong> June 14 is not just another day in the life and career of the actor who has made his mark in Bollywood and Hollywood because he announced his 500<sup>th<\/sup> film, a significant milestone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Anupam Kher\u2019s announcement about his upcoming Hollywood film titled <em>The Big Sick<\/em> coincided with his actor-cum-politician wife Kiron Kher\u2019s birthday today.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anupam-Kher-announces-his-500th-film-Hollywood-romantic-flick-The-Big-Sick.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13495 size-full\" title=\"Anupam Kher to act along with Holly Hunter in his 500th film The Big Sick, a Hollywood romantic drama \" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anupam-Kher-announces-his-500th-film-Hollywood-romantic-flick-The-Big-Sick.jpg\" alt=\"Anupam Kher movies, The Big Sick cast, Robert De Niro, Holly Hunter, Hollywood\" width=\"656\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actor took to Twitter to share this news along with a congratulatory note from none other than Hollywood actor Robert De Niro who he had worked with in <em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>, a 2013 Oscar winner. <strong>Robert De Niro said in a video clip,<\/strong> <strong>\u201cAnupam, I just want to say congratulations on finishing your 500<sup>th<\/sup> film. That\u2019s amazing! In America, maybe I have done 90 or 95 movies, but what you have done is incredible. Congratulations again!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Anupam Kher\u2019s 500<sup>th<\/sup> film <em>The Big Sick<\/em> is really a big milestone in his acting career which picked up following the box office success of <em>Saaransh<\/em><\/strong> in which the then 28-year-old Kher played a retired middle-class man and a bereaved father who lost his son in New York. <em>Saaransh<\/em>, his second film, was also chosen as India\u2019s official entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>The Big Sick<\/em> also stars Holly Hunter whose <em>The Piano<\/em> fetched the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993<\/strong>, Ray Romano who won Emmy Awards twice for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series <em>Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em>, Kumail Nanjiani who is best known for his role in HBO\u2019s Emmy Award nominated series Silicon Valley, and Zoe Kazan, a Los Angeles based actor &amp; playwright.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anupam-Kher-with-Kumail-Nanjiani-in-The-Big-Sick.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13497 size-full\" title=\"Actor Anupam Kher with American actor Kumail Nanjiani on the sets of 'The Big Sick' in Hollywood\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Anupam-Kher-with-Kumail-Nanjiani-in-The-Big-Sick.jpg\" alt=\"Anupam Kher in Hollywood, The Big Sick cast, actor Kumail Nanjiani, Holly Hunter \" width=\"649\" height=\"473\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anupam Kher was felicitated with <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/anupam-kher-honorary-texas-citizen\/\" target=\"_blank\">honorary citizenship of Texas<\/a><\/span> in the US as a tribute to his performance in the theatre play &#8216;<em>Mera Woh Matlab Nahi Tha<\/em>,&#8217; which became a hit with the Indian Americans in Houston last year. &#8211; <strong>IndianEagle<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The National Film Award winning actor rightly said, \u201cIt has been a great journey\u201d since the release of his debut film <em>Aagman<\/em> in 1982. He added,<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doing 500 films in 32 years has been an awesome journey. It shows the kind of life I have had. I\u2019m happy that my 500<sup>th<\/sup> landmark film is a <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/tag\/hollywood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a><\/span> project. It\u2019s not that if it was a Hindi film, it would have not been important. But I have done a lot of work in <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/history-of-indian-films-at-cannes-film-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Cinema<\/a><\/span>, and now I am looking at newer avenues. It happened by chance that this film worked out around this time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\">Travel Beats\u00a0is a digital portal for Indians and NRIs by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/cheap-flights\" target=\"_blank\">IndianEagle<\/a>, a leading international travel organization. Travel Beats publishes interesting stories and news about travel, culture, entertainment, lifestyle and aviation from India and the US.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning veteran Indian actor Anupam Kher woke up to congratulations from his fans and co-stars including Robert De Niro. June 14 is not just another day in the life and career of the actor who has made his mark in Bollywood and Hollywood because he announced his 500th film, a significant milestone. 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