Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Harivansh Rai Shrivastava Bachchan ( IPA: [əmɪˈtaːbʱ ˈbətʃːən] ; born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Zanjeer and Deewaar , and was dubbed India's first "angry young man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood . Referred to as the " Shahenshah of Bollywood", "Star of the Millennium" or "Big B", [3] [4] [5] [6] he has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades. [7] [8] Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema . [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] So total was his dominance on the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry." [14] [15] Early And Personal Life Bachchan was born in Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh, in north central India. [18] His ancestors on his fath