Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan is an Indian film actor.Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in north central India. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades.The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001 for his contributions towards the arts.Bachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character, Meyer Wolfsheim. Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the phrase made famous during the Indian independence struggle, Inquilab Zindabad, which means "long live revolution". However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, "the light that will never die.Bachchan himself also wrote a book in 2002: Soul Curry for you and me An Empowering Philosophy That Can Enrich Your Life.
In the early 80s, Bachchan authorised the use of his likeness
for the comic book character Supremo in a series titled The
Adventures of Amitabh Bachchan.Bachchan is the "greatest
star of stage or screen".



