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July 6, 2020 by sastry
Essay on Amitabh Bachchan: He was the ‘angry young man’ of Bollywood in the 1970s, and since then has acted in over 180 Indian films. Amitabh Bachchan is one of the greatest and the most popular actors in the history of Indian cinema. French director Francois Truffaut called him a ‘one-man industry’. He i
He was born in Allahabad on 11 th October 1942 to Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan. His father was a Hindi poet. His mother was a Punjabi Sikh from Faisalabad (now in Pakistan). He was named ‘Inquilaab’ in childhood, after the famous slogan of freedom struggleInquilaab Zindabaad’. Poet Sumitranandan Pant suggested the name Amitabh, which means “the light that will never die.” Amitabh studied in Sherwood College, Nainital and Kirori Mai College, Delhi University.
Bachchan made his debut in 1969 with the film ‘Bhuvan Shome’, as a narrator. He got his first acting role in ‘Saat Hindustani’. In 1971, his famous movie, ‘Anand’, with Rajesh Khanna won him his first Filmfare Award for the Best Supporting Actor. In 1973, director Prakash Mehra cast him in his first angry young man role for ‘Zanjeer’. It went on to be a hit and Bachchan was catapulted to stardom.
In 1975, he starred in Yash Chopra directed ‘Deewar’, which again was a hit. Coming close was ‘Sholay’ released the same year. Both films have been listed in Top 25 must see Bollywood films. In 1977, he won his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for the movie ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’. It was also the highest grossing film of that year