Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan (born 5 February 1976) is an Indian film actor and producer known for his work in Hindi films. Part of the Bachchan family, he is the son of actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan.

Bachchan has also played leading and supporting roles in commercially successful comedies and dramas, including Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Bluffmaster! (2005), Guru (2007), Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007), Dostana (2008), Dum Maro Dum (2011), Bol Bachchan (2012), Happy New Year (2014) and Housefull 3 (2016). His highest-grossing releases include the action sequels in which he plays the lead protagonist ACP Jai Dixit in Dhoom trilogy (2004-2013).[1]

In addition to his three Filmfare Awards, Bachchan won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi for producing the comedy-drama Paa (2009). Since 2007, he has been married to actress Aishwarya Rai, with whom he has a daughter.

Bachchan made his acting debut in 2000 with J. P. Dutta’s war film Refugee which was the fifth highest grosser of the year, and followed it by starring in over a dozen films which were all critical and commercial failures. His first commercial successes came with the 2003 & 2004 action films Zameen, Dhoom and Run, which changed his career prospects. Bachchan went on to earn critical appreciation for his performances in the dramas Yuva (2004), Sarkar (2005), and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), which won him three consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the second and only actor after Dilip Kumar to win 3 Filmfare awards consecutively. In 2007, he portrayed a character loosely based on Dhirubhai Ambani in Mani Ratnam’s drama film Guru, which earned him critical acclaim and a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

Early life

Abhishek Bachchan was born on 5 February 1976 in Mumbai to veteran actors of Hindi cinema, Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan (ńee Bhaduri), an accomplished actress in her own right. He has a sister, Shweta Bachchan. His grandfather, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was a noted poet of the Nayi Kavita Literary Movement of the Hindi literature and professor at the Allahabad University in Uttar Pradesh, while his grandmother, Teji Bachchan, was a social activist. The original surname of his family is Srivastava, Bachchan being the pen name used by his grandfather. However, when Amitabh entered films, he did so under his father’s pen name. Bachchan is of Awadhi and Punjabi heritage on his father’s side, and Bengali from his mother’s side. His maternal grandfather was Taroon Kumar Bhaduri, a famous author, and poet. TK Bhaduri wrote a famous book Obhishopto Chambol (Cursed Chambal), an account of his experiences as a journalist/writer in the area. This book provided the raw material and inspiration to almost all dacoit-related films made by the Hindi film industry in India.

Abhishek attended Jamnabai Narsee School and Bombay Scottish School in Mumbai, Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, and Aiglon College in Switzerland. He then attended Boston University but did not obtain any degree from there and he subsequently moved on to Bollywood. He was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of 9.

Films From 2010

010	Raavan	Beera Munda
	Jhootha Hi Sahi	Caller 3
	Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey	Surja Sen/Masterda
2011	Game	Neil Menon
	Dum Maro Dum	ACP Vishnu Kamath
	Bbuddah… Hoga Terra Baap	—
2012	Players	Charlie
2012	Bol Bachchan	Abbas Ali/ Abhishek Bachchan
2013	Nautanki Saala!	—
2013	Dhoom 3	ACP Jai Dixit
2014	Happy New Year	Nandu Bhide/ Vicki Grover
2014	The Shaukeens	—
2015	Shamitabh	—
2015	All Is Well	Inder Bhalla
2016	Housefull 3	Bunty
2018	Manmarziyaan	Rajbir ‘Robbie’ Bhatia
2020	Ludo	Batukeshwar “Bittu” Tiwari
2021	The Big Bull	Hemant Mehta
	Bob Biswas	Bob Biswas
	Dasvi	Ganga Ram Chaudhary

Career

2010–present

Bachchan experienced a brief setback in his career with four films that failed critically and commercially. These films were the thriller Raavan (2010), the social drama Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010), the action thriller Game (2011) and the heist thriller Players (2012). Only Dum Maaro Dum did well that year and was declared above average at the box office.

Bachchan then played the lead role in Rohit Shetty’s comedy Bol Bachchan (2012), which was a major blockbuster at the box office despite receiving mixed reviews from critics. Film critic Anupama Chopra called Bachchan a “good part of the film” and also commented that he “manages to sparkle even in a script that is lazy and determinedly lowbrow”. Bachchan received several awards for his role (Including Screen & IIFA).

Bachchan then appeared in Dhoom 3 (2013), which featured him and Uday Chopra reprising their roles from the previous two Dhoom films. In this installment of the series, they were joined by Aamir Khan and Katrina Kaif. While the film became a major blockbuster, most critics commented that Bachchan’s performance was overshadowed by Khan’s. Dhoom 3 currently ranks among the highest-grossing Hindi films of all time.

Bachchan was next seen in Farah Khan’s dance comedy Happy New Year, a musical heist film, playing the second lead to Shah Rukh Khan. The film featured an ensemble cast of Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah and Jackie Shroff. Bachchan was then seen in the 2015 family-drama All Is Well, which failed at the box oice. Bachchan’s first release of 2016 was the comedy Housefull 3, a sequel of the 2012 film Housefull 2. The film was successful at the box office.

In 2018, Bachchan starred in Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan alongside Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal. In 2020, he featured in T-Series and Anurag Basu Productions film titled Ludo, which was released on Netflix.

As of March 2021, he began filming Dasvi, a film produced by Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films and Jio Studios, alongside Yami Gautam, in February 2021. His film The Big Bull directed by Kookie Gulati and produced by Ajay Devgn, Anand Pandit and Kumar Mangat, for which he started shooting in September 2019 will not be released theatrically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is schedule to stream worldwide on 8 April 2021 on Disney+Hotstar. Bachchan will also be seen in Red Chillies Entertainment production Bob Biswas, slated to release in 2021.

Personal life

Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan With Wife And Daughter

In October 2002, at his father Amitabh Bachchan’s 60th birthday celebration, Abhishek and actress Karisma Kapoor announced their engagement. The engagement was called off in January 2003. Bachchan fell in love with Aishwarya Rai whilst filming for Dhoom 2, though both of them had already appeared together in Dhai Akshar Prem Ke (in which her then longtime boyfriend, Salman Khan, made a brief cameo) and Kuch Naa Kaho. Bachchan and Rai announced their engagement on 14 January 2007 which was later confirmed by his father, Amitabh Bachchan. The couple was married on 20 April 2007, according to traditional Hindu rituals of the Bunt community, to which Rai belongs. The wedding took place in a private ceremony at the Bachchan residence, Prateeksha, in Juhu, Mumbai, but was heavily covered by the entertainment media. The couple appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in September 2009, and were described as more famous than Brangelina. They have been described as a supercouple in the Indian media. Rai gave birth to a baby girl, Aaradhya, on 16 November 2011. Her daughter became quite popular by the name of “Beti B” which was named by the fans and the media, since the couple took over four months to name their daughter.

Bachchan has been brand ambassador for products like LG Home appliances, American Express credit cards, Videocon DTH, Motorola mobiles, Ford Fiesta and Idea Cellular. Bachchan was announced the winner of the “Best Brand Ambassador of the Year” award at the NDTV Techlife Awards in 2009. AdEx India, a division of TAM Media Research conducted a study on celebrity brand endorsements for the period of Jan–Dec 2010 in which Abhishek Bachchan eats the pie with a 4.7% share ad volume out of the 41.5% film actors on the endorsement circuit. Bachchan became the brand ambassador for TTK Prestige, part of the TTK Group in October 2013 along with his wife Aishwarya Rai. In 2014, he became the brand ambassador for the END7 campaign of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. The goal of the campaign is to eradicate seven different tropical diseases by 2020. On 11 July 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19, and was discharged on 8 August after testing negative.

Bachchan bought the Pro Kabaddi League franchise team Jaipur Pink Panthers and co-bought the Indian Super League football team Chennaiyin FC. in 2014. Jaipur Pink Panthers won the first ever championships held in 2014. Chennaiyin FC won the ISL 2015 and 2018. In 2005, he was a part of Tamil director Mani Ratnam’s stage show, Netru, Indru, Naalai, an event which sought to raise funds for The Banyan, a voluntary organisation which rehabilitates homeless women with mental illness in Chennai. In the summer of 2008, Bachchan, his wife, his father, and actors Preity Zinta, Riteish Deshmukh, and Madhuri Dixit starred in the “Unforgettable World Tour” stage production. The first leg covered the US, Canada, Trinidad, and London. Bachchan is also involved in the functional and administrative operations of his father’s company, originally known as ABCL, and renamed as AB Corp. Ltd. That company, along with Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., developed the Unforgettable production. In 2011, Bachchan has promoted awareness of drug abuse in India as part of a citizen education campaign. The actor launched the Awareness Day race, which celebrated the silver jubilee of the country’s Narcotics Control Bureau. His involvement in the kabaddi sport was documented in a 2020 television series, Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Panthers.

Awards

For his roles in the films Yuva (2004), Sarkar (2005) and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Bachchan won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is the second and only actor after Dilip Kumar to win an acting award 3 consecutive times.

Web-Series

Title	Year	Role
National Bingo Night	2010	Himself
Side Hero	2018	Himself
Breathe : Into the Shadows	2020	Dr. Avinash Sabarwal/J
Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers	2020	Himself