Theatre and was offered a feature film role, but she preferred herĭomestic duties. He later attended Kirori Mal College, Delhi University. Bachchan's father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007. Other practical purposes, Bachchan has become the surname for all of his In English, Inquilab Zindabad means "long live the revolution." However at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the boy's name to Amitabh, which means "the light that will never die." Although his surname was Shrivastava,Īmitabh's father had adopted the pen name Bachchan ("child-like" inĬolloquial Hindi), under which he published all of his works. Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired by the phrase Inquilab Zindabad popularly used during the Indian independence struggle. 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 and beyond.īachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim Early and personal lifeīachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in north central India.His father Harivansh Rai Bachchan was a Hindi poet and his mother Teji Bachchan was a Punjabi Sikh from Faisalabad, Punjab. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015 for his contributions to the arts. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s. Has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter. He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category atįilmfare, with 39 nominations overall.
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So total was his dominance of the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry."īachchan has won many major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards as Best Actor, a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies and fourteen Filmfare Awards. Our decades.Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Deewar and Zanjeer, and was dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than f Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan (IPA: born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor.