ACTOR

Amitabh Bachchan

1942 - Today

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Amitabh Bachchan (pronounced [əmɪˈt̪ɑːbʱ ˈbətːʃən] ; born Amitabh Srivastava; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema. He is often considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. With a cinematic career spanning over five decades, he has played pivotal roles in over 200 films. Bachchan is often hailed as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Sadi Ke Mahanayak (translated as "Greatest actor of the century" in Hindi), Star of the Millennium, or simply Big B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amitabh Bachchan has received more than 31,052,022 page views. His biography is available in 110 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Amitabh Bachchan is the 15th most popular actor (up from 19th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from India (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Actor.

Amitabh Bachchan is most famous for his roles in movies such as "The Great Gatsby," "The Godfather," and "The Dark Knight."

Memorability Metrics

  • 31M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 110

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 15 out of 13,578. Before him are Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert De Niro, Audrey Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, and Marlene Dietrich. After him are Anthony Quinn, Sarah Bernhardt, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Bette Davis, and Louis de Funès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 8. Before him are Paul McCartney, Martin Scorsese, Muammar Gaddafi, Joe Biden, Stephen Hawking, and Aretha Franklin. After him are Eusébio, Hu Jintao, Harrison Ford, Jimi Hendrix, Ratko Mladić, and Scatman John.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 6 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Narendra Modi (1950), Ashoka (-304), Rajneesh (1931), and George Orwell (1903). After him are Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), and Ramakrishna (1836).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Amitabh Bachchan ranks 1. After him are Vivien Leigh (1913), Shah Rukh Khan (1965), Aishwarya Rai (1973), Salman Khan (1965), Julie Christie (1940), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), Akshay Kumar (1967), Ajay Devgn (1969), Dharmendra (1935), Shilpa Shetty (1975), and Amrish Puri (1932).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Great Gatsby
Meyer Wolfsheim
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
May 9o 20137.367 / 10
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
Yashvardhan “Yash” Raichand
Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.
Dec 14o 20017.7 / 10
Mohabbatein
Narayan Shankar
At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.
Oct 27o 20007 / 10