Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan wraps up ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ shoot

8:27 pm January 13, 2021

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday announced that he has finished shooting for the 12th season of the popular game show ”Kaun Banega Crorepati” (KBC). The 78-year-old actor began filming the show keeping in line with the government mandated safety guidelines and protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic on August 23, 2020. On his blog, Bachchan wrote he was tired […]

Amitabh Bachchan hints at undergoing surgery

Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar pay tribute to soldiers killed in clash with Chinese troops

2:55 pm June 17, 2020

Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, actors Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma and others have expressed their deep pain and sadness over the killing of Indian Army personnel during a violent clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh. Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in the clash with Chinese troops in Galwan […]

50 years of Bachchan: Actor for all seasons and many generations

4:45 pm November 8, 2019

Mumbai: Fifty years ago, on November 7, 1969, a gangly, too tall actor appeared on the big screen in the under-appreciated “Saat Hindustani”. It was cinema history in the making but nobody really knew it until many years later. Half a century later, Khwaja Ahmed Abbas’ film is watched and critiqued again and again as […]

I was told not to do TV: Bachchan

8:40 pm August 13, 2019

Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan has become synonymous with “Kaun Banega Crorepati” for nearly two decades but the megastar says he was advised to not do TV when he started out. Bachchan says his arrival on TV, as the first superstar to host a show, was more coincidental than intentional. “It was just a coincidence. The channel […]