A new Hitler movie - from India

Nazis are always good for the box office.

June 9, 2010 at 4:08PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The fellow above is Anupam Kher, the next actor to play Hitler - this time it's an Indian movie.

Actors probably love to play Hitler, because you can really show off your rant power, or make everyone uncomfortable with a nuanced portrayal. Richard Basehart did the shout-and-glower routine in 1962's "Hitler." Bruno Ganz did the best job of creating a character, not an archetype. There's a little-seen 1944 movie called "The Hitler Gang," which detailed Hitler's miserable rise to power, and it's quite good - the paperhanger was played by Bobby Watson, who made something of a career as Hitler. Imdb says he played him 9 times. That's unlikely to happen to Kher, who has a lot of work under his belt already - 311 movies since 1982.

I think he looks like he should play Donald Pleasence playing Hitler. Here's what Anupam Kher may look like as Hitler:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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