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Amitabh Bachchan

Actor, playback singer, producer and host

Amitabh Bachchan is an actor, playback singer and producer in Hindi cinema. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most commercially successful actors in Indian film history, with more than 200 films. He was born in Allahabad, now Prayagraj, and studied at Sherwood College in Nainital and at Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi.

His film career began in 1969, as a voice narrator in Mrinal Sen's Bhuvan Shome. Anand, Zanjeer, Namak Haraam and Roti Kapda Aur Makaan made him popular in the early 1970s, and his roles earned him the label “Angry Young Man”. From the mid-1970s into the 1980s he led one hit after another, among them Deewaar, Sholay, Amar Akbar Anthony, Trishul, Don, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Kaala Patthar, Namak Halaal, Coolie and Sharaabi. The French director François Truffaut called him a “one-man industry”. In 1999 a BBC online poll voted him the “greatest star of stage or screen”.

His comeback began with Mohabbatein (2000) and continued through Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Baghban, Black, Paa, Piku, Pink, Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva and Kalki 2898 AD. He also appeared in the Hollywood film The Great Gatsby (2013). He has won seven National Film Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards. On this guide he plays Jai in Sholay and Bhashkor in Piku, and he hosts Kaun Banega Crorepati, which is on air.

Credits in detail

Sholay (1975, Hindi) was released 15 August 1975. Amitabh Bachchan plays Jai, under director Ramesh Sippy. The cast also includes Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Jaya Bhaduri.

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001, Hindi) was released 14 December 2001. Amitabh Bachchan is in the cast, under director Karan Johar. The cast also includes Jaya Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol.

Piku (2015, Hindi) was released 8 May 2015. Amitabh Bachchan plays Bhashkor, under director Shoojit Sircar. The cast also includes Deepika Padukone and Irrfan Khan.

Pink (2016, Hindi) was released 16 September 2016. Amitabh Bachchan is in the cast, under director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The cast also includes Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Andrea Tariang.

Kaun Banega Crorepati is a game show on Sony Entertainment Television, Season 18: Monday to Friday, 9:00 pm, from 10 August 2026. Also on SonyLIV.. Amitabh Bachchan hosts it.

Known for

Sholay · Piku · Kaun Banega Crorepati

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  • Sholay

    Film · 1975 · as Jai. Two small-time fighters are hired by a retired officer to bring in a dacoit. It was not an instant monster hit, and then it became the film Hindi cinema is still measured against. Ramesh Sippy directs. Salim–Javed write. Gabbar Singh is Amjad Khan.

  • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

    Film · 2001. A rich Delhi family splits when the adopted son marries against his father’s wish. Karan Johar directs. It is melodrama at full volume, and it is the family film a huge diaspora audience still puts on.

  • Piku

    Film · 2015 · as Bhashkor. A Delhi architect and her ageing father drive to Kolkata with a taxi owner who did not agree to a family. Juhi Chaturvedi wrote it. Shoojit Sircar directed. The joke is domestic and bodily, and the film never turns the father into a saint.

  • Pink

    Film · 2016. Three women in Delhi are dragged into a case after a night that a powerful family wants described their way. Amitabh Bachchan plays the lawyer who takes it. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury directs. Ritesh Shah wrote it. The argument of the film is consent.

  • Kalki 2898 AD

    Film · 2024. The year is 2898 AD and the city of Kashi is a dystopia. A lab subject known as SUM-80 is carrying a child believed to be Kalki, the final incarnation of Vishnu. A group sets out to protect her, the immortal Ashwatthama senses something divine in her, and a bounty hunter called Bhairava has his own reasons for wanting her found.

  • Kaun Banega Crorepati

    Show · Sony Entertainment Television. The Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Season 18 is the current run, themed “Sochna Padega”, and it is still the season on air in October 2026. Shah Rukh Khan hosted only season 3, in 2007.

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