Amitabh Bachchan

अमिताभ बच्चन

Actors Uttar Pradesh Living

BORN

11 October 1942

HONOUR

Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2019

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Key facts

Born: 11 October 1942, Prayagraj
State of birth: Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
Sector: Actors
Profession: Indian film actor (born 1942)
Gender: Male

Biography

Amitabh Bachchan 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, 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.

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