Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan Age, Height, Weight, Body, Wife or Husband, Caste, Religion, Net Worth, Assets, Salary, Family, Affairs, Wiki, Biography, Movies, Shows, Photos, Videos and More

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Family, Biography, Facts, Photos, Videos & More

Amitabh Bachchan is an Actor, TV Host. Amitabh Bachchan was born on 11th October 1942 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India and his real age is 78 years
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Article Type: Biography
Category: Actor, TV Host
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Father – Harivansh Rai Bachchan (Hindi Poet)

Mother – Teji Bachchan, Shyama (Step-mother)

Brother – Ajitabh Bachchan (Younger, Businessman)

Sister – Not Known

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Son – Abhishek Bachchan (Actor)

Daughter – Shweta Bachchan Nanda

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• He is ambidextrous and can write well with both hands.
• He once gave audition test in All India Radiobut was rejected.
• During his struggling days, a popular comedian Mehmoodoffered him to stay in his own house.
• He had also spent few nights on a bench at Marine Drive, Mumbai.
• Once director Sunil Dutt signed him for a film Reshma Aur Shera(1971) only because he got a letter of introduction from late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
• He is known for his baritone voice and lent his voice as a narrator to many films like Balika Badhu(1975), Tere Mere Sapne (1996), Lagaan (2001), Parineeta (2005), etc.
• He also sung several songs like Do Lafzon Kiof film The Great Gambler (1979), Mere Pas Aao of film  Natwarlal (1979), Chal Mere Bhai of film Naseeb (1981), Neela Aasman of film Silsila (1981), etc.
• During his peak acting years, Stardust imposed a 15-year press ban against him. Later, he claimed to have banned the press from entering his sets until late 1989.
• Before his first superhit film Zanjeer(1973), he has consecutively given 12 flops.

• He worked in 8 different languages like Hindi, English, Punjabi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Bhojpuri, and Malayalam.
• He featured in numerous TV commercial advertisements like ICICI, Emami Boro Plus, Eveready, Justdial, Pepsi, Nerolac, Navaratan Oil, Cadbury, Sahara City Homes, Kalyan Jewellers, Maggi, Dabur, etc.
• During the shooting of film Coolie(1983), he was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis after which he suffered a near fatal intestinal injury.
• He used his screen name Vijayin over 20 films.
• He is the first living Asian who have been modeled in wax at London’s Madame Tussauds wax museum in 2000. There are also many other places where his statue was modeled like New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Washington, and Delhi.

• In 2001, he was honored with the Actor of the Centuryaward at the Alexandria International Film Festival held in Egypt for his contribution to cinema.
• The government of French honored him with its highest civilian honor Knight of the Legion of Honour.
• Many things in India are named after him like Amitabh Bachchan Sports Complex, Amitabh Bachchan Road, and Amitabh Bachchan Government Inter College, Saifai.
• In Kolkata, there is a temple made after him where he is worshipped as a God.

• In 2012, he was named Hottest Vegetarianby PETA India.
• In PETA Asia’s contest poll, he won the Asia’s Sexiest Vegetarian
• In 2013, he was conferred with the Honorary Citizenshipof the French town of Deauville.
• His first car was a second-hand Fiat.
• Amitabh and his son Abhishek Bachchan holds the Guinness World recordfor being the only father-son duo to have played reversed roles on-screen in the Bollywood film Paa (2009).

• The famous French director Francois Truffaut called him one-man industry.
• A number of books have been written about him like Amitabh Bachchan: the Legend; To be or not to be: Amitabh Bachchan; AB: The Legend; Amitabh Bachchan: Ek Jeevit Kimvadanti; Amitabh: The Making of a Superstar; Looking for the Big B: Bollywood, Bachchan & Me; and Bachchanalia.

• Amitabh also wrote a book Soul Curry for you and me – An Empowering Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Lifethat was published in 2002.
• He is a pure vegetarian.
• He likes collecting pens and has a collection of over a thousand pens.
• His favourite city is Saint Petersburg in Russia.
• His favourite car is Lexus.

Gossips, Controversies

• His name showed up in the Bofors embarrassment where he was later pronounced not-liable. He was arraigned for submitting false records to demonstrate that he is a rancher.
• Stardust forced a 15-years prohibition on him amid his pinnacle acting years. As indicated by his blog, he brought the possibility of National Emergency and restriction on Media. In this way, media took that generally and prohibited Amitabh Bachchan: implies no meetings, no notice or pictures, and so on.
• In 1996, he needed to confront a fight in court for sorting out Miss World challenge improperly.

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Residential Properties – 3,175 sqm residential property in Brignogan Plage in France (in addition, properties in Noida, Bhopal, Pune, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar)

Agricultural Land – 3-acre plot worth Rs. 5.7 crore in Daulatpur area of Barabanki district

Movable Assets – worth over Rs.460 crore

Immovable Assets – worth over Rs.540 crore

Jewellery – worth over Rs.62 crore

Vehicles – worth over Rs.13 crore

Watches – worth over Rs.3.5 crore

Pen(s) – worth over Rs.9 lakh

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After completing studies, he started working with Shaw Wallace. He later started working as a freight broker for the shipping firm Bird and Co.

In 1969, he made his first break as an actor in the Bollywood film Saat Hindustani in which he played the role of Anwar Ali.

In 1984, he joined the politics to support his friend Rajiv Gandhi. He contested for the Allahabad seat against Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna in the eighth Lok Sabha elections. He got the seat with the highest victory margin in the history of the general election, that is, 68.2% of the vote. He resigned after three years in politics and calling politics a cesspool.

He took a temporary break from his acting career to set up his own company Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd. (ABCL) with the purpose to introduce services and products that covers a whole cross-section of the entertainment industry of India. The company started in 1996 and produced several films but none of which did well.

In 1997, he made his comeback as an actor with the Bollywood film Mrityudata that was produced by ABCL, but the film was failed both critically and financially. ABCL was the main sponsor of the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant in Bangalore, but the company lost millions. Later, ABCL went into administration and was declared a failed company by the Indian Industries board. During that time, Indian politician Amar Singh helped him financially and later Amitabh started supporting him and his party Samajwadi Party.

He hosted the popular Indian TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepati Season 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9. He also hosted the famous reality show Bigg Boss Season 3 (2009) and Indian entertainment talk show Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zindagi (2015-2016). Apart from that, he acted in some TV shows like Yudh (2014) as Yudhisthir Sikarwar and Astra Force (2016-2017) as Astra (Voice Role).

Honors, Awards

• 1984 : Padma Shri by the Government of India
• 2001 : Padma Bhushan by the Government of India
• 2007 : Knight of the Legion of Honour (France’s highest civilian honour from the Government of France)
• 2015 : Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India National Honours

• 1980 : Awadh Samman by the Government of Uttar Pradesh
• 1994 : Yash Bharti Award (Uttar Pradesh’s highest honour)
• 2005 : Deenanath Mangeshkar award
• 2013 : President of India ‘Medallion of Honour’ National Film Award
• 1990 : Best Actor for Agneepath 2005: Best Actor for Black
• 2009 : Best Actor for Paa 2015: Best Actor for Piku Polls 2002: Voted the “Hottest Male Vegetarian” by ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA)
• 2008 : Voted “Asia’s Sexiest Vegetarian Man” 2012: Voted the “Hottest Male Vegetarian” for the fourth time by ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) Controversies

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