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Amitabh Bachchan was the first person in Bollywood to start a public limited company - ABCL that produced the Miss World pageant in Bangalore in 1997. He is on the board of directors of Sahara India Ltd. He is currently hosting the TV game show Kaun Banega Crorepatti on Star Plus, which is hugely popular and has redefined primetime television.
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The Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan has been voted Indian of the Year, The Times of India reported. An opinion poll in the newspaper said that 15 percent of Indians voted for the 64-year-old actor as the most popular citizen, far ahead of the 5 percent who backed the star cricket batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Sonia Gandhi, leader of the governing Congress Party.
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India's all-time biggest movie star Amitabh Bachchan returns to the big screen in the new action thriller "Ek Ajnabee" ("One Stranger") opening worldwide on December 9th. The 63-year-old Bollywood megastar plays a man on a path to self-destruction who finds redemption when he is hired to protect an eight-year-old girl from a kidnapping plot. "Ek Ajnabee" was filmed on location in Bangkok, Thailand and co-stars Arjun Rampal, Perizaad Zorabian, and Vikram Chatwal. Action sequences were directed by the fight choreographer of Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Ong Bak.
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Born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, Amitabh Bachchan hails from a Hindu Kayastha family. His father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan was a well-known Hindi poet, while his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh from Karachi-Pakistan.[1] Bachchan was initially named as Inquilab, inspired from the phrase Inquilab Zindabad, during the Indian independence struggle. He was re-christened Amitabh which means, the light that would never go off. Though his last-name was Srivastava, his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan, under which was published all his works. It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films, and, for all public purposes, it has become the surname of all members of his current family.
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Amitabh Bachchan has been named goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund. He ... received the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award from Ray's son Sandip Ray in Calcutta/Kolkata, India, on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003. Bengal Film Journalists’ Association (BFJA) organizes the annual film award presentation.
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Amitabh Bachchan is often called the 'Angry Young Man' of Indian cinema, a term inspired by realist London theatre of the 1950s, in particular Osborne’s Look Back In Anger. Much as Amitabh is still celebrated for his wide-ranging performances as romantic hero, dramatic lead, comedian and now elder statesman, it is the roles he played as the AYM for which he is most celebrated.
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