Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Original name	Amitabh Bachchan
Petname	"Amitji", "Big B", Munna (for his parents)
Date of Birth	11 October 1942
Height	6'3"
Sun Sign	Libra
Education	Sherwood School, Nainital Graduated from Kirorimal College, Delhi
Place of birth	Allahabad, India
Family	Father - Harivansh Rai Mother - Teji Wife - Jaya Bachchan (actress) Children - Shweta and Abhishek (actor) Younger brother - Ajitabh
Address	Pratiksha, 10th Road JVPD Scheme Mumbai 400 049
Best friend	Ajitabh Bachchan
Favourite food	vegetarian food like aloo puri, pakodas, dhoklas and parathas.
Costume designers	Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla dress up Amitabh
Fun facts	Amitabh is ambidextrous(can write with both hands) His first job was in Shaw Wallace. He also worked as a freight broker for a shipping firm called Bird and Co. Amitabh and Jaya met for the first time at FTII, Pune, and then again on the sets of Guddi. While shooting for a fight sequence in Coolie, Amitabh was knocked down by the film's villain Puneet Issar, due to bad timing, seriously injuring him. August 2 is regarded as the day when he got a new lease of life. Amitabh writes poetry once in a while. Amitabh makes it a point to have at least one meal with them. Amitabh has sung quite a few hit songs BBC Online voted him Star of the Millennium He won the Allahabad Parliamentary seat on a Congress ticket in 1984 He has a replica of himself sculpted and displayed at Madame Tussad's wax museum in London, placing him among the historical and entertainment Hall of Fame.

Did you guys know AB is ambidextrous(can write with both hands)?? And that his real last name is Shrivastav.

Where did the Bachchan family derive its name? Bachchan is father's nom de plume...actually we're Srivastavas. His pen name became the family name. I'm the first bearer of the name. It seems father's maa used to call him bacha and he made that name into Bachchan. So there's only one Bachchan family. As far as I know, no one else uses this name except for a Hindi journalist of Delhi.

Where did the Bachchan family derive its name? Bachchan is father's nom de plume...actually we're Srivastavas. His pen name became the family name. I'm the first bearer of the name. It seems father's maa used to call him bacha and he made that name into Bachchan. So there's only one Bachchan family. As far as I know, no one else uses this name except for a Hindi journalist of Delhi.

great yaar. in every thing now including his name he's one of a kind.