The Legend

The Legend

Thursday, June 3, 2010

List of awards and nominations received by Amitabh Bachchan

National Film Awards

 

Winner
  • 1970 – Best Newcomer for Saat Hindustani
  • 1991 – National Film Award for Best Actor for Agneepath
  • 2006 – National Film Award for Best Actor for Black

Filmfare Awards

 

Winner
  • 1971 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Anand
  • 1973 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Namak Haraam
  • 1977 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Amar Akbar Anthony
  • 1978 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Don
  • 1990 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (First Recipient)
  • 1991 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Hum
  • 2000 – Superstar of the Millennium .
  • 2000 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Mohabbatein
  • 2001 – Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance for Aks
  • 2003 – Filmfare Power Award
  • 2005 – Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance for Black
  • 2005 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Black
  • 2010 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Paa
Nominated
Bachchan has been nominated as Filmfare Best Actor twenty-nine times (a record) and as Filmfare Best Supporting Actor nine times (also a record). He has also been nominated for Best Playback singer once.

International Indian Film Academy Awards

Winner
  • 2000 – IIFA Special Honorary Award 
  • 2001 – IIFA Best Supporting Actor Award for Mohabbatein
  • 2002 – IIFA Personality of the Year
  • 2006 – IIFA Wall of Fame'.
  • 2006 – IIFA Best Actor Award for Black

Star Screen Awards

 

Winner
  • 2003 – Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 along with Hema Malini for Baghban
  • 2003 – Distinction In Acting Award for Baghban
  • 2004 – Most Outstanding Personality
  • 2005 – Star Screen Award Best Actor for Black
  • 2007 – Star Screen Award for Best Actor (Critics) for Cheeni Kum
  • 2010 – Star Screen Award Best Actor for Paa
  • 2010 – Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 along with Abhishek Bachchan for Paa

Stardust Awards

Winner
  • 2000 – Best Artist of the Millennium by Hero Honda and file Stardust (magazine)
  • 2003 – Stardust Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • 2004 – Special Award for the film Baghban
  • 2005 – Special Award for the film Black
  • 2006 – Stardust Star of the Year Award - Male for Black
  • 2009 – Stardust Best Actor Award for The Last Lear
  • 2010 – Stardust Star of the Year Award - Male for Paa

Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

Winner
  • 1971 – Best Actor in Supporting Role for Anand 
  • 1975 – Best Actor for Mili
  • 2003 – Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award
  • 2005 – Best Actor for Black

 Zee Cine Awards

Winner
  • 2003 – Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement 
  • 2004 – Golden Grade Award
  • 2006 – Zee Cine Award Best Actor- Male for Black

Bollywood Movie Awards

Winner
  • 2001 – Bollywood Movie Award - Critics Award Male for Mohabbatein
  • 2003 – Bollywood Movie Award - Most Sensational Actor for Kaante
  • 2006 – Bollywood Movie Award - Best Actor for Black

Raj Thackeray's criticism


In January 2008 at political rallies, Raj Thackeray, the chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, targeted Amitabh Bachchan, asserting that the actor was "more inclined" towards his native state than Maharashtra. He expressed his disapproval of Amitabh's inaugurating a girls' school named after his daughter-in-law, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, at Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh, rather than in Maharashtra. According to media reports, Raj's censure of Amitabh, whom he admires, stemmed out of his disappointment of not being invited to Amitabh's son Abhishek's marriage to Aishwarya, despite invitations to his estranged uncle Bal and cousin Uddhav.


Responding to Raj's accusations, the actor's wife, SP MP Jaya Bachchan, said that the Bachchans were willing to start a school in Mumbai, provided the MNS leader donated the land to build it. She told the media, "I heard that Raj Thackeray owns huge properties in Maharashtra, in Mumbai—Kohinoor Mills. If he is willing to donate land, we can start a school in the name of Aishwarya here." However, Amitabh abstained from commenting on the issue.

Bal Thackeray refuted the allegations, stating, "Amitabh Bachchan is an open-minded person, he has great love for Maharashtra, and this is evident on many occasions. The actor has often said that Maharashtra and specially Mumbai has given him great fame and affection. He has also said that what he is today is because of the love people have given him. The people of Mumbai have always acknowledged him as an artiste. It was utter foolishness to make these parochial allegations against him. Amitabh is a global superstar. People all over the world respect him. This cannot be forgotten by anyone. Amitabh should ignore these silly accusations and concentrate on his acting."
On 23 March 2008, more than a month and half after Raj's remarks, Amitabh finally spoke out in an interview to a local tabloid saying, "Random charges are random; they do not deserve the kind of attention you wish me to give." Later, on 28 March at a press conference for the International Indian Film Academy, when asked what his take was on the anti-migrant issue, Amitabh said that it is one's fundamental right to live anywhere in the country and the constitution entitles so.He also stated that he was not affected by Raj's comments.

Voice


Bachchan is known for his deep, baritone voice. He has been a narrator, a playback singer and presenter for numerous programmes. Renowned film director Satyajit Ray was so impressed with Bachchan's voice, that he decided to use his voice as commentary in Shatranj Ke Khiladi since he could not find a suitable role for him. Before entering the film industry, Bachchan applied for an announcer's job with All India Radio, although he was rejected.

Health-2005 hospitalisation

In November 2005, Amitabh Bachchan was admitted to Lilavati Hospital's ICU once more, to undergo surgery for diverticulitis of the small intestine. This occurred after Bachchan complained of pains in his abdomen some days prior. During the period and that following his recovery, most of his projects were put on hold, including the television show he was in the process of hosting, Kaun Banega Crorepati. Amitabh returned to work in March 2006.

Television career

In the year 2000, Bachchan stepped up to host India's adaptation of the British television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? entitled, Kaun Banega Crorepati. As it did in most other countries where it was adopted, the program found immediate success. Canara Bank withdrew its law suit against Bachchan in November 2000. Bachchan hosted KBC till November 2005, and its success set the stage for his return to film popularity. In 2009 Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire in the first question of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contest "Amitabh Bachchan" was the correct answer to the question "Who was the star of Zanjeer? Feroz Abbas Khan performed as Amitabh Bachchan in a scene in the movie while Anil Kapoor performed as the host of the contest. Amitabh Bachchan is hosting Bigg Boss 3.

1982 injury while filming Coolie


On 26 July 1982, while filming Coolie in the University Campus in Bangalore, Bachchan suffered a near fatal intestinal injury during the filming of a fight scene with co-actor Puneet Issar. Bachchan was performing his own stunts in the film and one scene required him to fall onto a table and then on the ground. However as he jumped towards the table, the corner of the table struck his abdomen, resulting in a splenic rupture from which he lost a significant amount of blood. He required an emergency splenectomy and remained critically ill in hospital for many months, at times close to death. The public response included prayers in temples and offers to sacrifice limbs to save him, while later, there were long queues of well-wishing fans outside the hospital where he was recuperating. Nevertheless, he spent many months recovering and resumed filming later that year after a long period of recuperation. The film was released in 1983, and partly due to the huge publicity of Bachchan's accident, the film was a box office success.

The director, Manmohan Desai, altered the ending of Coolie after Bachchan's accident. Bachchan's character was originally intended to have been killed off but after the change of script, the character lived in the end. It would have been inappropriate, said Desai, for the man who had just fended off death in real life to be killed on screen. Also, in the released film the footage of the fight scene is frozen at the critical moment, and a caption appears onscreen marking this as the instant of the actor's injury and the ensuing publicity of the accident.
Later, he was diagnosed with Myasthenia gravis. His illness made him feel weak both mentally and physically and he decided to quit films and venture into politics. At this time he became pessimistic, expressing concern with how a new film would be received. Before every release he would negatively state, "Yeh film to flop hogi!" ("This film will flop").

Early work: 1969–1972


Bachchan made his film debut in 1969 as one of the seven protagonists in Saat Hindustani, a film directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and featuring Utpal Dutt, Madhu and Jalal Agha. Though the film was not a financial success, Bachchan won his first National Film Award for Best Newcomer. The critically acclaimed and commercially successful Anand (1971) followed, where he starred alongside Rajesh Khanna. Bachchan's role as a doctor with a cynical view of life garned him a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. Amitabh then played the role of an infatuated lover in Parwaana (1971) opposite Navin Nischol, Yogeeta Bali and Om Prakash and was a rare instance of him portraying the villain. This was followed by several films which were not particularly successful at the box office including Reshma Aur Shera (1971). During this time, he made a guest appearance in the film Guddi which starred his future wife Jaya Bhaduri opposite Dharmendra. Noted for his deep baritone voice early on in his career, he narrated part of the film Bawarchi. In 1972, he made an appearance in the road action comedy Bombay to Goa, directed by S. Ramanathan. He starred alongside actors such as Aruna Irani, Mehmood, Anwar Ali and Nasir Hussain.

Family


Bachchan is married to actress Jaya Bhaduri. They have two children, Shweta Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan. Abhishek is also an actor and is married to actress Aishwarya Rai.

Early Life Of Amitabh Bacchan................!!!


Amitabh Bachchan hails from a Hindu-Sikh family. His father, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan was a well-known Hindi poet, while his mother, Teji Bachchan was a Sikh-Punjabi from Faisalabad (now in Pakistan). Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the famous phrase Inquilab Zindabad, during the Indian independence struggle, but was re-named Amitabh which means, "the light that would never go off." Though his surname was Shrivastava, his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan, under which he published all his works. It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films, and, for all public purposes, it has become the surname of all members of his current family.
Amitabh is the eldest of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's two sons, the second being Ajitabh. His mother had a keen interest in theatre and had been offered a role in a film, but preferred her domestic duties. She had some degree of influence in Bachchan's choice of career because she always insisted that he should take the centre stage. He attended Allahabad's Jnana Prabodhini and Boys' High School (BHS), followed by Nainital's Sherwood College, where he majored in the art stream. He later went on to study at Kirori Mal College of the University of Delhi and completed a Bachelor of Science degree. In his twenties, Bachchan gave up a job as freight broker for the shipping firm, Bird and Co., based in Calcutta now known as Kolkata, to pursue a career in acting.