Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer and former politician. First gained popularity in the early 1970s for films such as Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay. Referred to as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ka Mahanayak, Star of the Millennium, or Big B, he has since appeared in over 200 Indian films.
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Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer and former politician. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for films such as Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay. Referred to as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ka Mahanayak, Star of the Millennium, or Big B, he has since appeared in over 200 Indian films in a career spanning more than five decades. Bachchan has won numerous accolades in his career, including four National Film Awards as Best Actor, Dadasaheb Phalke Award as lifetime achievement award and many awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies. He has won fifteen Filmfare Awards and is the most nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 41 nominations overall. He also made an appearance in a Hollywood film, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim. His father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan was an Awadhi Hindu Kayastha. His mother, Teji Bachchan, was a social activist and Punjabi Sikh woman from Lyallpur, Punjab, British India. He married Jaya Bhaduri, an actress and politician, in 1973 and together they have two children Abhishek, an actor, and Shweta, an author, model, and former model.
Together they have a daughter, Aishwarya Rai, who is married to businessman Nikhil Nanda who is a part of the Bollywood family of Kapoor and Kapoor. He is also the grandfather of actor Abhay Bachchan and the uncle of actor Ravi Agrawal. He was born on 11 October 1942 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. His ancestors on his father’s side came from a village called Babupatti, in the Raniganj tehsil, in the present-day state of Uttar Pradesh. He and his mother decided the family’s name should be Bachchan instead of Shrivastava. He later attended Kirori Mal College, Delhi, and later went on to study at the University of Delhi. His brother Ajitabh is also an actor and he has a younger brother, Ajitbai Bachchan. He had a younger sister, Akshay, who was a model and actress. He now lives in New York City with his wife and two children, Aaradhya and Abhaya. He currently lives in Mumbai, India, with his second wife, actress Aishesh Rai, and has a son, Aryan, and a daughter named Aadhya Navar, who lives in the United States with her mother, Ayesha Rai. In 2007, the Government of France honoured him with its highest civilian honour, Knight of the Legion of honour, in 2007 for his exceptional career in the world of cinema.
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