Indian film actor (born 1942)
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For two decades, Bollywood wasn't an industry — it was him. The "angry young man" who turned Hindi cinema into what a French director called a "one-man industry," stacking the highest-grossing films of the 1970s and '80s until the term "superstar" felt inadequate.
Born in Allahabad in 1942, Bachchan started as a voice narrator in 1969, then worked through early films like Anand before Zanjeer made him the face of a new archetype. Through Deewaar, Sholay, and a run of blockbusters — Amar Akbar Anthony, Don, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar — he became what Time called "the undisputed godfather of Bollywood." After stepping back in the 1990s, he returned in 2000 with Mohabbatein and a second act that brought four National Film Awards for Best Actor (a record), plus roles in Black, Paa, Piku, and a Hollywood turn in The Great Gatsby. Over 200 films, sixteen Filmfare A…
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We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film.
He never gave us a script and we never asked - we were safe in his hands.
I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.
When your back is against the wall, there's only one way to go and that's forward.
I strongly believe that "Amitabh Bachchan" has the power to influence people and bring all of us together for a greater purpose – of peace, brotherhood and solidarity.
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