HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MEGASTAR BIG B

 


THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIFE OF A MAN IS NOT WHAT HE DOES, BUT THE LEGEND WHICH HE CREATES AROUND HIMSELF.  

THE WORLD KNOWS THIS MEGASTAR AMITABH BACHCHAN BUT HE IS BORN AS  INQUILAAB SRIVASTAVA TO THE GREAT INDIAN POET HARIVANSH RAI BACHCHAN AND THE INDIAN SOCIAL ACTIVIST TEJI BACHCHAN IN ALLAHABAD.

AMITABH ROSE TO FAME DURING 1970s - 1980s AS THE MOST DOMINANT ACTOR IN THE INDIAN CINEMA WHERE HE WAS CALLED "ONE-MAN INDUSTRY" AS HE WON THE HEART OF MILLIONS AROUND THE GLOBE.  HE GAINED DIFFERENT TITLES LIKE 'ANGRY YOUNG MAN" , "SHANENSHAH OF BOLLYWOOD", "SADI KA MAHANAYAK", "BIG B", "STAR OF THE MILLENNIUM"AND "ASIA's SEXIEST VEGETARIAN" .  HE HAS APPEARED IN MORE THAN 200 INDIAN FILMS SPANNING MORE THAN FIVE DECADES AND WON NUMEROUS ACCOLADES IN HIS CAREER.  IT IS INTERESTING TO KNOW AT THE AGE OF 78 HE IS STILL WORKING HARD.

THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AWARDED AMITABH  THE PADMASRI IN 1984.  IN 1991 HE WAS THE FIRST ARTIST TO RECEIVE THE FILMFARE LIFETIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD IN THE NAME OF RAJ KAPOOR. IN 1999 HE WAS QUOTED 'THE BEST STAR OF STAGE OR SCREEN".  IN 2000  HE WAS CROWNED AS "SUPERSTAR OF THE MILLENNIUM"  IN 2001 HE WAS AWARDED THE PADMA BHUSHAN AND THE ACTOR OF THE CENTURY AWARD . THE LEGION OF HONOUR WAS CONFERRED UPON HIM IN 2007 BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.   IN 2010 HE RECEIVED THE ASIAN LIFETIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD , HE WAS HONOURED THE SECOND HIGHEST CIVILIAN AWARD THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN IN 2015,

AMITABH BECAME THE FIRST LIVING ASIAN TO HAVE BEEN MODELLED IN WAX AT LONDON's  MADAME TUSSAUDS WAX MUSEUM IN JUNE 2000.  ANOTHER STATUE WAS INSTALLED IN NEWYORK IN 2008, HONG KONG IN 2011, BANGKOK IN 2011, WASHINGTON DC IN 2012 AND DELHI IN 2017.

IN ALLAHABAD THE AMITABH BACHCHAN SPORTS COMPLEX AND AMITABH BACHCHAN ROAD ARE NAMED AFTER HIM.  A GOVERNMENT SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN SAIFAI, ETAWAH IS CALLED AMITABH BACHCHAN GOVERNMENT INTER COLLEGE.

THERE IS A WATERFALL IN SIKKIM KNOWN AS AMITABH BACHCHAN FALLS.  THERE IS A TEMPLE IN KOLKATA WHERE AMITABH IS WORSHIPPED AS A GOD

HEROES COME AND GO BUT LEGENDS ARE FOREVER.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MEGASTAR AMITABH BACHCHAN OR THE POWERFUL INQUILAAB SRIVASTAVA


   

  




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