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Films: 150+
Success: 81
Hit: 43
AMITABH BACHCHAN. The man behind the persona of MegaStardom, whose 150+ films over the last five decades have nourished the dreams of millions the world over, remains a riddle.
The overwhelming superhuman, who battled abhorrent from the bubbling cauldron of hellfire itself, was through the 1970s and the 1980s basically a small time industry on whom Hindi silver screen depended to make megabucks, and even to survive.
Amitabh's film industry records can be portrayed just in superlatives. Makers and wholesalers appear to trust still that "even a slump with Amitabh's name on the marquee is an adequate grosser". Each of his movies remains a cash spinner for the initial two weeks. In the 1970s and the 1980s, he was hailed as the small time industry upon whom Hindi film depended to make its most astounding stakes ever, as well as to make due through lean circumstances. A mishap or ailment to the "wonder" implied a noteworthy emergencya stifling of monetary course to the entire structure. It has likewise been recognized that the Amitabh advance stemmed to some degree the business' underlying downslide caused by the video and satellite TV thefts.
So from Zanjeer through Deewar, Sholay, Mukaddar ka Sikandar, Shahenshah, Inderjeet, Agneepath and Akayla, to Khuda Gawah, the Amitabh paradigm keeps on considering varieties an oversimplified shape, amplified to a splendid strength; it has now progressed toward becoming piece of the aggregate mind of a country of film-goers. It was the ideal cure to the tragic bad dream of current unthinking presence, particularly in the less skeptical circumstances of the current past. Amitabh individuates his parts with the most extreme certainty and conviction. He influences the unsubtle to appear to be unpretentious, touches the raunchy with class, makes acting valid. Surely, no other Indian on-screen character had the talking eyes and enchanting voice to imbue nuanced suggestivity into clich circumstances. His artfulness did not distance his characters from the majority. Or maybe, Amitabh's restricted power, of a kind obscure to Hindi film some time recently, zapped the watcher. He likewise enchanted with that dash of comic drama, which he showed now and again (Parvarish, Chupke Chupke, Namak Halal, Amar Akbar Antony). As Govind Nihalani puts it: "Give him the silliest line, he makes it adequate."
Other than the staple admission of athletic, tragic razzmatazz, Amitabh gave capturing exhibitions of a kind where the star cleared a path for the performing artist. Valid, there has been no artful culmination or bravura appear, however Amitabh's high-bore dramatic aptitudes were apparent amidst the-street wanders in which he took an interest (Anand, Namak Haram, Abhiman, Mili, Saudagar).
Major Box Office Record:
- From 1973-86, he has given at least 1 HIT film every year.
- He has given 3 or more Hits in a year in 1975(3), 1977(4), 1978(3) & in 1981(4).
- Holds the maximum record of films running for 100 Weeks, Platinum Jubilee(75 Weeks), Golden Jubliee(50 Weeks) & Silver Jubliee(25 Weeks).
- If collective total for all his films Ticket Sold is constructed it will be highest for any Actor who has worked for nearly 5 decades.
Note:- Few films have been upgraded from Semi-Hit to HIt & Super Hit to Blockbuster as theses changes are expected in New BOI.
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