Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan (pronounced [əmɪˈt̪ɑːbʱ ˈbətːʃən]; born Amitabh Srivastava; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor, film producer, television host, occasional playback singer and former politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of the most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema. During the 1970s–1980s, he was the most dominant actor in the Indian movie scene; the French director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry".Bachchan was born in 1942 in Allahabad to the Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and his wife, the social activist Teji Bachchan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amitabh Bachchan has received more than 22,258,632 page views. His biography is available in 103 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Amitabh Bachchan is the 10th most popular actor (up from 15th in 2019), the 5th 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."