Amitabh attended the prestigious Sherwood School, Nainital, and
graduated from Kirorimal College, Delhi.
His first ever job was in a company called Shaw Wallace. He also
worked as a freight broker for a shipping firm, which went by the name
of Bird and Co, drawing a four-figure salary and languishing in the
club lands of Calcutta.
His favourite screen name is Vijay (Deewar, Zanjeer, Shakti) and
favourite screen profession was to play a cop (Zanjeer, Ram Balram,
Bade Miya Chote Miya, Aks)
While shooting for a fight sequence in Manmohan Desai's Coolie,
Amitabh was knocked down by the film's villain Puneet Issar, due to
bad timing, seriously injuring him. August 2 is regarded as the day
when he got a new lease of life.
He is a vegetarian, who loves to gorge on simple food, like aloo puri,
pakodas, dhoklas and parathas.
Besides making a hit jodi with the likes of Jaya Bhadhuri, Rekha,
Zeenat Aman, Raakhee, Parveen Babi and Sridevi, Big B made a smashing
pair with Dharmendra (Ram Balram, Sholay, Chupke Chupke), Vinod Khanna
(Muqqadar Ka Sikander, Amar Akbar Anthony, Parvarish) and Shashi
Kapoor (Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Deewar, Shaan, Trishul).
It was during the making of Sholay that Amitabh discovered he was
going to be the proud father of his first-born, Shweta.
Son Abhishek may be similar in looks, but daughter Shweta is
temperamentally similar to her father, according to Jaya.
For someone who is not a professional singer, Amitabh has sung quite a
few hit songs. Witness: Mere Angne Mein (Laawaris), Rang Barse
(Silsila), Mere Paas Aao (Mr Natwarlal) and Tu Maike Mat Jaiyo (Pukar)
, to name a few.
He has a replica of himself sculpted and displayed at Madame Tussad's
wax museum in London, placing him among the historical and
entertainment Hall of Fame.
Amitabh was one of the first to come up with a music album AB Baby for
his music company Big B music. He even appeared in an imaginatively
shot video by Rakesh Mehra called Eir Bir Phatte, which was an instant
hit.
BBC Online voted him Star of the Millennium, above Hollywood greats.
A trendsetter, Amitabh Bachchan made a path breaking entry in the
world of television with the Indian remake of Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire -- Kaun Banega Crorepati. Going by the astounding success
of the show, a good move by the savvy Bachchan.
Amitabh tried his hand at politics in 1984. He won the Allahabad
Parliamentary seat on a Congress ticket by a whooping number of votes.
AB loves gorging on gulab jamuns, especially from Jhama's in Chembur, Bombay
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