Mr Bachchan said the film community was looking forward to the awards in July.
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The father of Bollywood star Abhiskek Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, is an actor and cricket supporter.
Even if things do go wrong, Abhishek Bachchan can derive inspiration from his father Amitabh Bachchan's career.
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Bachchan had surgery for an intestinal condition at the same hospital in 2005.
For many, touching Bachchan is almost as good as winning the jackpot prize.
In the mid 1980's, Bollywood's biggest star Amitabh Bachchan fought the elections on a Congress party ticket from his northern hometown of Allahabad.
The Hindi Crorepati, hosted by film legend Amitabh Bachchan, taps the nation's raging get-rich-quick spirit with a sexy basic formula.
Flying from Zurich, Bachchan tolerated a late takeoff along with all the other passengers on the mostly full British Airways jet.
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Aishwarya Rai is one of the top brand ambassadors in the country, while Abhishek Bachchan is the face for Motorola phones.
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Spielberg met Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and other Indian film personalities at a party hosted by businessman Anil Ambani on Monday night.
The central character in "Slumdog Millionaire" is shown as a Bachchan fan.
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Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who visited Khanna's family on Wednesday, revealed that the actor's last words were "time is up" and "pack up".
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And Mr. Luhrmann uses Amitabh Bachchan, a legendary star in his native India, to make the Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfshiem a leering Fagin.
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The venture kicked off with an ad campaign featuring Amitabh Bachchan, a popular actor known for playing a character called Vijay in several movies.
But instead of seeing their presences as a threat, Bachchan sees the growing interest from the west as an opportunity to revolutionize the industry.
As an actor, Amitabh Bachchan is having to give way to younger stars and his films are not as big as they once were.
Popular film actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan's father, film producer Rakesh Roshan, are among reported extortion targets for the gangsters.
Abhishek Bachchan explained what enthralls people about the Indian film industry.
Bachchan has starred in more than 100 films and was once dubbed the "most famous actor of the millennium" in a BBC News website readers' poll.
The same cannot be said of two other releases, Jai Santoshi Maa, and the much anticipated Umrao Jaan, starring top stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan.
Bachchan worked with Khanna in the hit films Anand and Namak Haram in the initial years of his career, before replacing him as Bollywood's biggest name.
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Amitabh Bachchan arrived in the city as preparations got into full swing for the Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards, due to take place in Yorkshire in June.
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Son of screen legend Amitbah Bachchan, Abhishek has emerged as a major star in his own right, scooping top awards and starring in a number of blockbusters.
Although the global number of Google searches for Bachchan puts him on the same scale as Sean Connery, he retains a cloak of anonymity in the West.
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Mr Verma has also pulled off a coup of sorts by signing up Amitabh Bachchan to play one of the roles - Bachchan had acted in the original.
Gone are the days where actors worked on six to seven films at any one time -- in the case of Bachchan, filming three movies in a single day.
Last year Bachchan returned as the celebrity host of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire - one of the most watched shows on Indian television.
By the way, the single best performance of a fraudster ever was done in this Gatsby by Amitabh Bachchan, as Meyer Wolfsheim, fixer of the 1919 World Series, bond fraud expert, and clear eyed seer into Wall Street.
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