Amitabh Bachchan Profile
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11th, 1942 and so can be assigned with the sun sign of Libra. Bachchan’s elongated name is Amitabh Harivansh Srivatsav and Bachchan is his family name. In short he is called as Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan is a world renowned Indian cinema actor and is also the living legend of Indian cinema as he won three National film awards and twelve Film fare awards. Apart from acting Amitabh also worked as a Television host, film producer and as a playback singer. He was an elected member of parliament and represented his constituency of Allahabad from the year 1984-1987. He almost 6 Feet tall and is looks leaner in well fitting clothes and is well known as Amitabh, Mr. Bachchan, Big’B, Bollywood ka Betaj Badshah and a living legend in Indian cinema
Personnel life of Amitabh
Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad district which is in Uttar Pradesh state. His father was Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan who was a poet and his mother was Teji Bachchan who was a Sikh from Pakistan. Amitabh was the eldest son to his parents and had a younger brother named Ajitabh Bachchan.
Amitabh Bachchan is a well versed person as he is a double MA holder from Nainital’s Sherwood College. He pursued his schooling from Boy’s High School and completed his B.S.C from Kirori Mal College New Delhi.
In the year 1973 on June 3rd, Mr. Bachchan married Jaya Bhaduri who was also a Bollywood actress at that time. The couple has two children named Swetha and Abhishek. Swetha is married into the Godrej family and Abhishek is also a married man with Former Miss world Aishwarya Rai as his wife.
Mr. Bachchan’s film career
In the year 1969, Big’B was introduced to the silver screen as one of the hero in the film “Saat Hindusthani”. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas directed this film and had Utpal dutt, Jalla Agha and Madhu in the lead. Bachchan earned a National award in the best new comer category.
Then later on Amitabh was featured in the film titled “Anand” which was a commercial success at the box office. It was in the year 1971 and had Rajesh Khanna in the lead role. Big’B earned his film fare best supporting actor award in this film.
In the year 1973, Amitabh’s film titled “Zanjeer” was released. It was a film which featured Amitabh as an angry young man. He played the character of Inspector Vijay Khanna and was a darling to a million female hearts.
In the year 1982 while shooting for the film “Coolie”, Big ‘B was severely injured while canning a shooting scene with his co-star Puneeth Issar. Bachchan accidentally fell on a table edge and as a result his intestines were badly damaged. He was critically ill for several days and after a long period of recovery Amitabh completed the shooting of Coolie and the film was a super success at the box office.
Then Amitabh was diagnosed with Myasthenia gravis and so opted out of films. He ventured into politics. But he could not sustain his stand there and again returned to the film industry with the come back film “Shahenshah” in the year 1988. the film was super hit at the box office and in the year 1996 Bachchan turned up to produce films under his own banner named A.B.C.L which stand for Amitabh Bachchan Corporation limited. It was a 10 billion company but sank to debts.
Television career
In the year Amitabh ventured into small screen by the game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati” which was a replica of British show who wants to be a billionaire. As the success of the game show melted his debts, Big’B started to charge 13 lakhs for each episode. In the year 2005 the game show ended with Amitabh earning almost billion. His film career was also ignited by the television show success.
Amitabh Bachchan’s controversial life
Amitabh Bachchan was said to be in love with Rekha, but when he married Jaya the whole bollywood buzzed with the development. Unable to suppress her love towards Big’B Rekha remained as a bachelor till date.
Amitabh Bachchan’s relationship with Shahrukh Khan is also terrible. Due to various reasons they pull their legs and so do Aamir and Salman who recently patched up with Amitabh.
Latest
Recently, on October 11th, 2008 Bachchan was admitted to hospital for a complaint of acute abdominal pain. The same which happened in the year 2005, but on October 12th he was discharged and has been advised a month long bed rest. With his hospitalization Rs 100 crores are at stake as his films, advertisements, social dos will be paused for almost a couple of months.