amitabh bachchan

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan thanked his legion of fans on Monday for completing 52 years in the film industry. Bachchan fondly remembered the day he signed his first film, Saat Hindustani, in 1969. “Aaj hi ke din film industry mein pravesh kiya tha… February 15, 1969… 52 years !! aabhaar, ”Bachchan tweeted in response to a follower’s post celebrating his journey of more than five decades in film.

Three years ago, on the same date, Bachchan had first shared with fans that he signed with Saat Hindustani on the day he arrived in Mumbai. “49 years ago I came to the city of dreams and signed my first film … “Saat Hindustani ‘on February 15, 1969”, the Gulabo Sitabo actor tweeted at the time. The 78-year-old actor also reflected on the historic date in his blog post. Bachchan wrote that the date became special only because her fans, whom she calls “extended family,” remembered and celebrated it.

“As the night slides into the next day … it slides into the 52-year gap of my beginning in the world of cinema … a chapter that the very effective, caring and loving Ef remember and portray through of your wishes, communications and artistic representations, “the actor wrote.

“It is very attractive to see, hear and read what they give away … if they had not, it would have been one more day, one that was spent in the struggle of life.”

Saat Hindustani, written and directed by Khwaja Ahmed Abbas, was an action drama about seven Indians fighting for break free Go to from the Portuguese colonial rule. The main cast also included Utpal Dutt, AK Hangal, and Anwar Ali. Saat Hindustani released in November 1969, marking Bachchan’s arrival on the big screen.

After an acclaimed performance in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s moving 1971 drama Anand and a series of unsuccessful films with Bombay to Goa (1972), Bachchan’s career took a 180 degree turn only in 1973 with Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer. Not only was the film a huge box office success, it also established the image of Bachchan as an angry young man, one that has strong memory value even four decades later.

Bachchan remains the highest figure in the Indian film industry, courtesy of his impeccable work and his ability to reinvent according to the times. The actor dominated the film industry across all genres until the early 1990s. It was only when the three Khans, Shah Rukh, Aamir, and Salman, began to emerge with younger, more contemporary stories that Bachchan finally faced the competition and slowed down his work.

Reeling from successive failures, including the closure of his production company ABCL, Bachchan’s career took a second life when he debuted on the small screen with the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati in 2000. The superstar has not looked back since, as it is still relevant in both film and television. In fact, it won three of the four national awards during its second entry: Black (2005) by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Paa (2009) directed by R Balki and Piku (2015), directed by Shoojit Sircar.

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