amitabh bachhan biography::He suffered from a rare muscular disorder known as myasthenia gravis.However, his unconventional looks did work against him at the beginning of his bollywood career, but he stayed around long enough to be become the icon of the indian film industry.
Amitabh bachchan was born in allahabad in 1942, to dr.
Harivansh rai bachchan and teji bachchan.
Bachchan was initially named inquilaab.
Amitabh bachchan studied in allahabad at jnana pramodhini and boys high school.
He completed his education at sherwood college in nainital and kirori mal college in delhi.
His first job was in shaw wallace.
Amitabh later worked as a freight broker for a shipping firm called bird and co.
In 1969, amitabh made his debut with saat hindustani , which won him the national film award for best newcomer.
After this came movies like reshma aur shera , parwana , and anand in 1971.
Amitabh reworked the image of the hindi film hero with major hits like deewar , sholay , trishul and don.
His status as a demigod was evident when the entire nation prayed for his recovery when he met with a fatal injury during the making of coolie in july, 1982.
In 1984, amitabh entered politics in support of long time friend rajiv gandhi.
Accusations of him being involved in the bofors scandal made him quit politics, although, later on, he was proved innocent.
Amitabh returned to films with blockbusters like shahenshah, agneepath, hum and khuda gawah.
Landed him in immense debts.
He returned back to movies but with no success.
In the year 2000, he stepped up to host the television show kaun banega crorepati and later was seen in mohabbatein along with shah rukh khan.
Both these ventures proved extremely successful.
Since then amitabh has been on a roll.
At sixty plus, with all the endorsements and accolades, he is a greater icon than he was at the height of his popularity three decades ago.
The last two years have seen him doing vastly different roles such as sarkar raj , the last lear , paa and teen patti.
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