Amitabh Bachchan

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Amitabh Bachchan (né Srivastava; born 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor, playback singer, and producer who primarily works in Hindi cinema. Widely considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he has starred in over 200 films. Bachchan has been called “the Angry Young Man”, the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi ke Mahanayak (literally meaning “superstar of the century”), Bollywood’s Star of the Millennium, or simply Big B. His dominance in the Indian film industry during the 1970s–80s led the French director François Truffaut to describe him as a “one-man industry”. He is a recipient of several accolades including seven National Film Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards & one South Filmfare award.
Bachchan was born in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), and he was educated at Sherwood College, Nainital, Uttarakhand and Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. His film career started in 1969 as a voice narrator in Mrinal Sen’s film Bhuvan Shome and first gained popularity in the early-1970s, with films, such as Anand, Zanjeer, Namak Haraam and Roti Kapda Aur Makaan. He achieved greater stardom in later years, being dubbed…