How many of you like Amitabh Bachchan ? . . . . . Happy 72nd Birthday to him today on October 11th 2014 ! Amitabh Harivanshrai Bachchan (born 11th October 1942 in Allahabad,UP) is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Deewar and Zanjeer, and was dubbed Indias 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 four decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. 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. He has won many major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards as Best Actor (a record he shares with Kamal Hassan and Mammootty), a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies and fourteen Filmfare Awards. He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 39 nominations overall. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001 for his contributions towards the arts. He made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 23:06:07 +0000
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