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Amitabh Bachchan
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9 Facts From Amitabh Bachchan's Career
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As of 2008, Amitabh Bachchan was the highest-grossing Indian film star of all time, with cumulative box office earnings of over Rs 3,700 crore according to trade figures. (India Today - 29 May 2008).
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With 42 nominations in total, he is the most nominated actor in all major acting categories at the Filmfare Awards (33 nominations for Best Actor - a record; 9 nominations for Best Supporting Actor - also a record). He also has a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Playback Singer (male) for the song "Mere Paas Aao Mere Doston" from Mr. Natwarlal (1979) and a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Film Producer for Paa (2009).
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Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi gave a major concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey in 1990. It had a capacity of 40,000 people. Kalyanji Anandji, Rajnikant, Neelam, Sonam, Shakti Kapoor and Anupam Kher also performed at the concert.
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In 2013, on the eve of Indian cinema's centenary celebrations, Bachchan was named the greatest Bollywood star of all time by Britain's Eastern Eye Magazine; his favourite actor Dilip Kumar came second and the era's leading superstar Shahrukh Khan came third. Rajesh Khanna, whom Bachchan had replaced as India's leading film star, placed ninth in the compilation. Film critic and journalist Asjad Nazir, who had previously questioned Bachchan's stardom when compared with Rajesh Khanna or Shahrukh Khan, wrote that if longevity, body of work and impact are considered together, Bachchan may well be the greatest film star in global cinema history.
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Bachchan, who won his first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for ANAND (1972), is as of May 2022 the only actor to receive at least one Filmfare nomination in 6 different decades (the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s), his most recent nomination coming for GULABO SITABO in 2021. The next best is the late Dilip Kumar, whose 19 Best Actor nominations spanned 5 separate but consecutive decades (the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s) before he finally retired in 1997. Bachchan is also the only actor who remained a bona fide film star throughout all the decades mentioned, even during the 90s, when he was partly on leave and bankrupt.
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The story of his post-bankruptcy resurrection, his return to the top of the Indian cinema hierarchy as both actor and film star, and his continued relevance in the 21st century is a subject widely studied by filmmakers as well as aspiring actors.
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The 1980s were the only decade in which Bachchan won neither a Filmfare nor a National Film Award, whether as lead or supporting actor; however, during that decade he received 9 Filmfare nominations for Best Actor and one nomination for Best Playback Singer.
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He was the first recipient of the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, given in memory of the legendary actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor. Bachchan received the honour at the 1992 ceremony. At 49, he is also, as of 2023, the youngest person to be recognised with the title.
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Counting his leading and prominent supporting roles as of December 2023, Bachchan has appeared in 5 films that won the Filmfare Best Film Award. Yet he was honoured for only two of them: ANAND (1971), which earned him his first Filmfare Best Supporting Actor award, and BLACK (2005), which brought him his fourth Filmfare Best Actor nomination as well as his second Best Actor Filmfare (Critics) Award. He was also nominated for Best Actor for DEEWAR (1975) and SHAKTI (1982), and for Best Supporting Actor for VEER ZAARA (2004).
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