Amitabh Bachchan filmography

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian actor, playback singer, film producer, television host and former politician who primarily works in Hindi films. He made his acting debut in 1969 with Saat Hindustani,^[1] and narrated Mrinal Sen's Bhuvan Shome (1969).^[2] He later appeared as Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Anand (1971), for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[2] In 1973, Bachchan played his breakthrough role of Inspector Vijay Khanna in Prakash Mehra's action film Zanjeer. He has since appeared in several films with the character name "Vijay".^[3] During the same year, he appeared in Abhimaan and Namak Haraam. For the latter, he received the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. He starred along with Shashi Kapoor in Yash Chopra's Deewaar, which earned him widespread critical acclaim and popularity, made him won Filmfare Award for Best Actor nomination. He was cited as the "angry young man" for his roles in Deewaar and Zanjeer.^[4] Later he starred in Ramesh Sippy's Sholay (1975), which is considered to be one of the greatest Indian films of all time.^[5]^[6] After appearing in the romantic drama Kabhie Kabhie (1976), Bachchan starred in Manmohan Desai's highest grosser action-comedy Amar Akbar Anthony (1977). He again won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for his performance in the latter. He then played dual roles of Don and Vijay in Don (1978), which again earned him the Filmfare Best Actor Award for the consecutive year. All of them were huge blockbusters.

Bachchan's stardom continued to roar in the early 1980s, and his critically and commercially successful ventures in this period include Dostana (1980), Shaan (1980), Ram Balram (1980), Naseeb (1981), Lawaaris (1981), Kaalia (1981), Yaarana (1981), Satte Pe Satta (1982), Namak Halaal (1982), Khud-Daar (1982), Andha Kanoon (1983) and Coolie (1983). His performances in these films in Dostana and Shakti earned him the nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. He suffered a near-fatal injury while shooting for Coolie.^[7] His workload decreased for the upcoming four years (1984–1987), but he found critical and commercial success in Sharaabi (1984), Geraftaar (1985) and Mard (1985). He returned to the screen with the box-office success Shahenshah (1988).^[8]^[9] A year later, Bachchan played the role of gangster Vijay Deenanath Chauhan in Mukul S. Anand's Agneepath (1990) earned him the National Film Award for Best Actor and later starred in Hum (1991), which was a commercial success. Despite being a box-office failure, the former garnered him the National Film Award for Best Actor and has since developed a cult status.^[10]^[11]^[12] He also earned the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Hum, following which he took another break from acting.^[8] He then played Badshah Khan in Anand's 1992 drama Khuda Gawah, for which he received a civilian award from the President of Afghanistan. Khuda Gawah, released on 8 May 1992, was also a critical and commercial success, and Bachchan's performance was well received both domestically and internationally.^[13] In 1996, he started his film production company Amitabh Bachchan Corporation whose first release Tere Mere Sapne (1996) was a box-office hit.^[14] Amitabh Bachchan is also known as the "Shahenshah" or "Big B" of Bollywood.^[15]

In 2000, Bachchan appeared in a widely acclaimed supporting role in Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein. It won him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. During the same year, he made his television debut as the host of the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati.^[16] He has since hosted its every season except for the third one. He then went on to play the roles of a short-tempered banker in Aankhen (2002), a disillusioned father in Baghban (2003), and a conflicted cop in Khakee (2004).^[17] In 2005, he played the role of a teacher of a blind and deaf girl in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black, for which he received the National Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.^[18]^[19] He received another National Award for Best Actor for playing a progeria patient in R. Balki's Paa (2009). He also portrayed the title character of a friendly ghost in Bhoothnath (2008), and its sequel Bhoothnath Returns (2014);. and played a hypochondriac in the comedy-drama Piku (2015).^[20] It earned him his fourth National Film Award for Best Actor, Played the character of man with constipation in Piku.

Bachchan has also narrated several films including Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977), Lagaan (2001), Parineeta (2005), Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Ra.One (2011), and Krrish 3 (2013). He has also performed as a playback singer for films like Laawaris, Silsila, and Baghban.

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Year	Film	Acting role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
1995	Gulabi		Krishna Vamsi	Telugu film	^[255]
1996	Tere Mere Sapne	Narrator	Joy Augustine		^[50]
1996	Yuvathurki		Bhadran	Malayalam film	^[255]
1997	Mrityudata	Dr. Ram Prasad Ghayal	Mehul Kumar		^[56]^[116]
1997	Ullaasam		J. D.- Jerry	Tamil film	^[255]
1998	Saat Rang Ke Sapne		Priyadarshan		^[56]
1998	Major Saab	Major Jasbir Singh Rana	Tinnu Anand		^[117]
2001	Aks	Insp. Manu Verma	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor	^[127]^[56]
2005	Viruddh... Family Comes First	Vidhyadhar Patwardhan	Mahesh Manjrekar		^[155]
2005	Antarmahal		Rituparno Ghosh	Bengali film	^[256]
2006	Family	Virendra "Viren" Sahai Ruthless Criminal	Rajkumar Santoshi		^[160]^[161]
2009	Paa	Auro	R. Balki	National Film Award for Best Actor Filmfare Award for Best Actor	^[187]^[188]^[189]^[190]
2010	Vihir		Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni	Marathi film	^[257]
2011	Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap	Vijay 'Vijju' Malhotra	Puri Jagannadh	Also playback singer for song "Bbuddah Hoga Terra Baap"	^[188]^[194]^[195]
2013	Saptapadii		Niranjan Thade	Gujarati film	^[258]
2015	Shamitabh	Amitabh Sinha	R. Balki	Also playback singer for song "Piddly"	^[213]^[214]

Year	Title	Role	Note	Ref.
1993–1994	Dekh Bhai Dekh		Producer	^[259]
2000–2006, 2010–present	Kaun Banega Crorepati	Host	Season 1–2, Season 4–present	^[260]
2009	Bigg Boss 3	Host	Season 3	^[261]
2011	The One Show	Himself	Special appearance	^[262]
2013	Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap	Himself	Voice over	^[263]
2014	Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah	Himself	Special appearance	^[264]
2014	Yudh	Yudhisthir Sikarwar	Television miniseries; lead role	^[265]
2015	Desi Rascals	Himself	Special appearance	^[266]
2015–2016	Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zindagi	Host		^[267]
2016–2017	Astra Force	Astra	Animated series; voice role Also co-creator with Sharad Devarajan	^[268]
2023	The Romantics	Himself	Documentary series	^[269]

Year	Title	Language	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
2005	March of the Penguins	English Hindi	Narrator	Luc Jacquet		^[270]
2011	The Story of Film: An Odyssey	English	Himself	Mark Cousins	Special appearance	^[271]
2011	Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told	English Hindi	Himself	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Jeff Zimbalist		^[272]
2015	Putting the Fun in Fundamental	English	Himself	Andy Lee	Special appearance on episode "Bollywood Goddess"	^[273]

Year	Title	Performer(s)	Album	Ref.
1996	Various	Bally Sagoo	"Aby Baby"	^[274]
1988	"Mile Sur Mera Tumhara"	Various	—	^[275]
2002	"Kabhi Nahi"	Adnan Sami	"Tera Chehra"	^[276]
2010	"Phir Mile Sur Mera Tumhara"	Various	—	^[275]
2017	"Phir Se"	Amruta Fadnavis	—	^[277]
2021	"Hum Hindustani"	Various	—	^[278]

Amitabh Bachchan filmography

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Television

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Year	Film	Role	Notes	Ref.
1969	Saat Hindustani	Anwar Ali		^[21]^[14]
1969	Bhuvan Shome	Narrator		^[22]
1970	Bombay Talkie	Himself	Special appearance: English film
1971	Anand	Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee/ Babu Moshai	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor	^[23]
	Pyar Ki Kahani	Ram Chandra		^[24]
	Parwana	Kumar Sen		^[25]
	Reshma Aur Shera	Chhotu		^[26]
	Sanjog	Mohan		^[27]
	Guddi	Himself	Special appearance	^[28]
	Piya Ka Ghar	Himself	Special appearance	^[29]
1972	Bombay to Goa	Ravi Kumar		^[30]
	Bansi Birju	Birju		^[31]
	Ek Nazar	Manmohan Tyagi (Akash)		^[32]
	Raaste Kaa Patthar	Jai Shankar Rai		^[33]
	Bawarchi	–	Narrator	^[22]
	Garam Masala	Robert Taylor	Special appearance	^[34]
	Jaban	Dalaljit	Special appearance	^[34]
1973	Bandhe Haath	Shyamu/Deepak	^[35]	^[33]
	Gehri Chaal	Ratan		^[36]
	Zanjeer	Inspector Vijay Khanna	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor	^[3] ^[14]
	Namak Haraam	Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj	Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor	^[37]^[14]
	Abhimaan	Subir Kumar		^[38]
	Saudagar	Motallam (Moti)		^[39]
	Bada Kabutar	Himself	Special appearance	^[34]
1974	Kasauti	Amitabh (Amit) Sharma		^[40]
	Parinay	Narrator
	Benaam	Amitabh (Amit) Shrivastav		^[41]
	Roti Kapda Aur Makaan	Vijay		^[3]
	Majboor	Ravi Khanna		^[42]
	Dost	Anand	Guest appearance	^[14]
	Kunwara Baap	Anthony	Guest appearance	^[34]
1975	Deewaar	Vijay Verma	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor	^[43]^[14]
	Zameer	Baadal		^[44]
	Sholay	Jaidev (Jai)		^[45]
	Faraar	Rajesh (Raj)		^[46]
	Chupke Chupke	Sukumar Sinha/Parimal Tripathi		^[47]
	Mili	Shekhar Dayal		^[48]
1976	Chhoti Si Baat	Himself	Guest appearance	^[34]
	Kabhi Kabhie	Amitabh Malhotra (Amit)	Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Actor	^[49]^[14]
	Balika Badhu	Adult Amal	Voiceover	^[50]