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Grace à l'aide de Globetrotteur17..pour identifier le temple voici quelques infos
Avalokiteshvara est le plus populaire des Bodhisattvas, les « promis à l'éveil » du bouddhisme mahayana (ou « Grand Véhicule »).
Son nom signifie « Seigneur de l'infinie compassion » ou « Seigneur qui regarde d'en haut », et il est le bodhisattva du temps présent.
Avalokiteshvara est considéré comme une émanation du grand bouddha Amitabha. Bien qu'il réside dans le paradis d'Amitabha, il évolue dans notre monde pour le salut des hommes et des animaux.
On le représente généralement sous les traits d'un bel homme Avalokiteshvara vient en aide à ceux qui l'invoquent. Il se rend en enfer pour apporter des boissons fraîches à ceux qui endurent la chaleur des damnés, et il prêche la loi bouddhiste aux êtres incarnés en insectes et en vers. On dit qu'il protège les hommes des catastrophes naturelles et qu'il bénit les enfants. C'est lui qui aurait converti les ogresses du Sri Lanka et aurait reçu pour mission de convertir le Tibet au bouddhisme.
Le Prag Mahal est un palais du XIXe siècle situé à côté de l' Aina Mahal à Bhuj , Gujarat , Inde.
Prag Mahal porte le nom de Rao Pragmalji II, qui l'a commandé et la construction a commencé en 1865. Il a été conçu par le colonel Henry St Clair Wilkins dans ce que l'office de tourisme local décrit comme le style gothique italien, bien que il serait mieux décrit comme une architecture romane du style néo-indo-sarrasin , et de nombreux artisans italiens ont participé à sa construction. Les salaires des artisans du palais étaient payés en pièces d'or. Construction du palais, qui a finalement coûté 3,1 millions de roupies, a été achevé en 1879.
Le tremblement de terre de 2001 au Gujarat a gravement endommagé le palais. En 2006, le palais a été cambriolé, des voleurs volant des antiquités valant des millions de roupies et endommageant d'autres objets dans tout le palais. Le palais était dans un état « fantomatique », « désespéré ». Cependant, le palais et la tour ont été réparés, après qu'Amitabh Bachchan se soit personnellement intéressé à la restauration du palais. et sa tour et son horloge ont été réparés et sont maintenant ouverts au public.
I am tagged !
I am tagged by this person : Prashant Kulli
So now be ready to read 15 things about me :).
Well , here it goes......
1. Who Am I
My name is Prashant and I like to be called by my name only. ;)
I live in Pune, India and I am a software engg by profession.
2. How Am I
Well i am the same as you can see me in this photograph. I am a fun loving chameleon.
I am witty, funny, and intelligent. I am a little short tempered too.
3. How Do I Look
I used to consider myself as as good looking till now, but now i have put on some extra kilos.:P
My friends say sometimes i look like Abhishek Bachhan. :D
4. Place I Love
I am mad about Sahyadri mountain ranges and konkan coastline (India)
I had this love for outing/trips and i slowly started framing the moments in my cam.
5. Photography
Photography for me is to capture the beauty of nature and the moments I lived.
No wonder if you find lotta landscapes in my stream ;)
6. Prashant the SInger
Apart from roaming/travelling/photography i do lotta things.Mentiong a few here.
I like singing which i havent learnt technically (Still performed 3 times on stage till date)
7. Me and Movies
I can never get bored of watching movies. I am an encyclopedia of Bollywood :)
My favorite actors/actresses are Amitabh Bacchhan, Abhishek Bachhan, Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Kajol.
From hollywood i like Russel Crowe, Tom Cruise,Keanu Reeves and Angelina Jolie.
8. I like to play
I just love watching Cricket. I follow it religiouly.I used to play till i was in college.
Fav Players : Sachin Tendulkar and Wasim Akram.
I am not bad at Chess as well. Playing cards is my fav pass time :)
9. Foooooooooood !!!
I just love different kinda food .Sometimes,I keep visitin places just for the taste.
I like sweets a lot. I am a pure NON vegeterian :D
10. Coooooooking !!!
I just not eat but Cook as well. Apart from basic snacks , I can cook chicken and fish quite well.
11. Friends
I am a social animal . I cant live alone. I always love to be surrounded by people.
I love my friends and i care for them. Darshi ,Ritesh and Pankaj are my best friends with whom i spend most of my time.
Thanks for being there mates. :)
12. People i don't like
Yeah. I hate people who are selfish.
Sometimes i also hate people who are too much practical when it comes to relation with me.
13. i should not do this
I like biting my nails. I have bad food habits. Eat a lot of junk food.
14. I wish to do...
I wish to become a technically proficient photographer. (Hope you guys will help me)
I also wanna learn to play guitar. I wanna travel all over India and also travel abroad if i get a chance.
15. Summary
At last what can i say about myself is "Its hard to improve perfection !!!".
In Hindi - "..... waise perfection ko improve karna mushkil hai..."
hehehe :D
(I am sure some people know from where i copied this quote)
Thanks for your patience while reading :)
It has been a great journey on flickr so far and I am glad to have you as friends/ contacts here.
Please keep your comments/favs/suggestions flowing in. That surely helps.
Keep Rockin and Clickin Friends ....
~Prashhant~
Abhishek Bachchan, @bachchan , completed 25 years in films.
Quite undervalued as an actor IMO, mostly because he is often compared to his legendary father Amitabh Bachchan!
Indian Film Festival Melbourne, Australia
Le Bouddha Amitayus "Longévité infinie"
Le buddha Amitayus (Amitabha ou Amida au Japon) assis sur un socle formant une terrasse de lotus. Il tient le flacon de longévité dans ses mains jointes et porte un diadème et un collier. Il est vénéré pour obtenir une longue durée de vie. Amitabha est le Bouddha des Terres pures de l'ouest, qui est l'équivalent du Paradis des chrétiens. C'est Amida et sa suite qui descend sur terre pour venir chercher un défunt et l'amener pour renaître dans les Terres pures de l'ouest.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amit%C4%81bha
Chine, fours de Jingdezhen
18è siècle
Règne de Qianlong
Porcelaine, famille rose
Collection Ernest Grandidier
Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris
www.photo.rmn.fr/archive/13-603469-2C6NU0LZGYVT.html
Oeuvre présentée dans l'exposition : "Médecines d’Asie, l’art de l’équilibre". Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris
Conçue comme une expérience originale, un voyage introspectif entre corps et surnaturel, Médecines d’Asie est la première exposition majeure consacrée en France aux trois grandes traditions médicales asiatiques : indienne, chinoise et tibétaine. À travers un parcours scénographique par-delà les frontières et le temps, l’exposition transporte le visiteur dans un univers où se rencontrent pratiques médicales millénaires et œuvres d’art exceptionnelles, évoquant la méditation et le chamanisme, l’équilibre des énergies et la pharmacopée, le massage et l’acupuncture, l’astrologie et l’exorcisme...
Cette figure en pied représente Avalokiteshvara, le bodhisattva de la compassion, l’une des entités les plus vénérées du bouddhisme du mahâyâna. Il est identifiable grâce au petit « Buddha de l’Ouest », Amitâbha, visible dans sa couronne. Son front est paré d’un diadème quelque peu inhabituel qui pourrait relever d’influences étrangères. Par sa position légèrement déhanchée, et son modelé subtil et doux, cette oeuvre est caractéristique de l’art du Phnom Da. Le visage présente un nez long, fin et légèrement aquilin la chevelure est traitée en mèches calamistrées tombant en cascade dans le dos. Le vêtement est une simple dhotî au plissé rayonnant. Le poli soigné de la sculpture, caractéristique de bien des oeuvres au Cambodge, accentue la douceur des transitions entre les masses qui constituent le corps, tout de sobriété et de mesure. Ce traitement raffiné et détaillé des éléments qui composent le visage ainsi que le soin apporté à l’exécution générale pourraient impliquer un patronage royal.
Les étais assurant une meilleure solidité et soutenant chaque bras, se retrouvent dans de nombreuses rondes-bosses de l’époque préangkorienne, encore techniquement hésitante.
Au centre le Geungnakjeon ou pavillon du Bouddha Amitabha, le Bouddha du Paradis de l’ouest (Terres pures au Japon) et le pavillon de la cloche (à gauche, caché en partie)
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Le temple Tongdo-sa fait partie des trois joyaux du bouddhisme coréen consacrés respectivement au Bouddha (Tongdo-sa), au Dharma (Haein-sa) et au Sangha (Songgwang-sa).
C'est le temple le plus important de Corée car il conserve les reliques du Bouddha et qu’il est très ancien. Il a été fondé en 643 durant l’époque du royaume du Silla par maître Jajang qui a ramené les reliques. C’est un des 4 centres de formation (Chongrim) au Bouddhisme en Corée . Il fait l'objet de nombreux pèlerinages et de séjours de bouddhistes.
Le temple sur Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongdosa
Le site du temple Tongdo-sa
La Pagoda Phap Bao se encuentra fuera de la Ciudad Antigua.
Tres famosas imágenes de Buda se encuentran en el complejo, el Buda Shakyamuni, el Buda Amitabha y el Bodhisattva Maitreya.
Fue construida originalmente en 1981 y fue completamente renovada en el año 2000 por Thich Hanh Niem.
Musée Cernuschi d'art asiatique
Cernuschi Museum of Asian Art
Paris
FR : Ce grand (4,4 mètres de haut) Bouddha japonais, en bronze, est le vestige d'un temple tokyoïte de l'époque Edo (dix-huitième siècle) détruit accidentellement par le feu…
Son grand Bouddha avait été abandonné dans les broussailles d’un jardin de Tokyo…
Statue monumentale sauvée de l’oubli par Henri Cernuschi, riche industriel, grand voyageur et amateur d’art asiatique, qui la rachète en 1871, la transporte en pièces détachées de Tokyo à Paris puis la réassemble et restaure, à l'intérieur de son hôtel particulier parisien, en bordure du Parc Monceau.
Lequel hôtel, incluant ses collections, a été légué à la ville de Paris et est devenu Musée Cernuschi d'Art Asiatique depuis 1898… Les collections d’origine ont été enrichies depuis les années 50 et le musée organise périodiquement d’intéressantes expositions temporaires.
Musée d’art asiatique moins prestigieux que le Musée Guimet mais digne d’intérêt pour tout fan de l’Asie dont je suis…
La position des mains (dharmacakra mudrā) de ce Bouddha Amitâbha (ou Amida, ou "de la lumière infinie") symbolise l'argumentation et la discussion sur la doctrine, deux facultés intellectuelles justement en rupture de stock en France depuis longtemps…
On devrait donc l’envoyer à l'Assemblée Nationale, pour raisonner et arbitrer nos excités de tous bords...
Un peu de sérénité “zen” nous ferait du bien par les temps qui courent !...
Nota technique : Le grain se manifeste un peu trop à 1600 ISO sur le vieux G15 mais, en ville et sans projet photo particulier, je me sépare du reflex pour “voyager” léger !
EN: This tall (4.4 meters high) bronze Japanese Buddha is the vestige of a Tokyoïte temple of the Edo period (eighteenth century) destroyed by fire then abandoned...
Bought in 1871 by Henri Cernuschi, transported in spare parts from Tokyo to Paris then reassembled inside his private Parisian mansion (today Cernuschi Museum)
Buddha Amitâbha (or Amida) whose hand position (dharmacakra mudrā) symbolizes argumentation and discussion
Fragment de catafalque en marbre (dynastie Wei de l'est, VIème siècle).
Amitābha Buddha, marbre. Chine, dynastie Liao (907-1112).
Musée Cernuschi (Paris).
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Imponente imagem de Buda Amitabha, com 10 metros de altura e dez toneladas de peso, no pátio do Templo Budista de Foz do Iguaçu.
As asas congeladas
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Estas asas congeladas
Não é uma setença de morte
É a vida lutando
Para além do último suspiro.
Toda a beleza deste mundo
Você pode imaginar
Deslumbrando e dançando
Em minhas asas esvoaçantes.
E, quanto mais eu dancei
Mais perto chequei
Cada movimento que eu fiz
Desafiou o perigoso fim.
Ainda assim eu beijei
Cada flor com leveza e suavidade
O êxtase da vida...
Agora, as sementes podem germinar.
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Amitabha Chakrabari
21 de janeiro de 2011
(In English)
The frozen Wings
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These wings frozen
Not a sentence of death
Is life fighting
Even after the last breath
All the beauty of this world
You can imagine
Dazzled and danced
On my fluttering wings.
And the more I danced
The closest I came.
Every move I made
Hailed the dangerous end.
Still, I've kissed
Each flower soft and delicate
The ecstasy of life ...
Now, the seeds can germinate.
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Amitabha Chakrabari
January 21, 2011
A typical early evening on Juhu beach, Mumbai.
best in large: www.flickr.com/photos/52198509@N05/4864863112/sizes/l/
Juhu (Marathi:जुहू) is a suburban neighbourhood of western Mumbai. It is famous for its sprawling beach, the Juhu Beach. It is surrounded by Arabian Sea in the west, Santacruz and Vile Parle in the east. Juhu is one of the more affluent areas of Mumbai.
Many Bollywood stars own bungalows in Juhu, famously including Amitabh Bachchan, Amrish Puri, Ajay Devgan, the Deols and numerous other stars. Industrialist Adi Godrej, Musician Khayyam, Lalit Modi, Media Expert Niranjan Parihar, Financial Advisor Bharat Solanki and Chairman of Montex group Raman Jain also have their bungalows in Juhu.
The nearest railway stations are Santacruz, Andheri and Vile Parle.
Copyright © 2010. Toffael Rashid. All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal.
O Templo Budista de Foz do Iguaçu foi construído em 1996 por comunidades chinesas da tríplice fronteira entre Brasil, Paraguai e Argentina e deixa muitos visitantes impressionados pela sua beleza, principalmente da réplica de concreto do famoso Buda sentado Mi La Pu-San, de 7 metros de altura.
Além do Buda, há 120 estátuas representando cada reencarnação de Buda na terra e um templo principal com mais de dois mil metros quadrados e dois andares, onde se localiza a Casa do Mestre.
That’s Daniel P. Hoenemann, the Father of Homeopathy (accepted a science here) with Amitabh Bachchan, a financial advisor.
'Kiss of the rose' rotated.
3rd prize - Digital Open Category Jan 2008
- I just realised this photo was in Explore :) - at #438 on Dec 24, 2007 !!
- Sad at Kodachrome's retirement!! - this was the result of my first macro experiments on 'expired' Kodachrome film. I shot 8 such rolls and I guess they would be my last! The results were stunning even on so called 'expired' film. Slides are fun.
A vendor on a beach at Utorda in South Goa. The ice cream is branded as "Big B" and is a take off on the great Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan who has always been called by that moniker "Big B". ( The linkage to the site is purely for inofmation. the site maintained by the actor makes excessive usage of deleting comments, editing posts etc...and is pure exercise in johnnie come lately to the internet nirvana )
Utorda beach is clean and wonderful in winter. A restaurant going by the name of "Zeebop" is the rage and has a most amazing setting right on the sands. It is a comfortable spot compared to restaurants like Brittos and others on the North Goa Beaches of Baga Calangute etc as it is not festering with aggressive peddlars of junk. The food is good most times but the last time I was there 3 nights ago they made a hash of the Beef chilly fry goan style. They served a better version later but this is what Zeebop is.....excellent setting and ambience but food can be patchy. Brittos the rage of the restaurants in North Goa, on the other hand will give you good food day in day out. Cheers !! Hic !!!
This shot is a crop out of a larger picture and is put up here to show the conformity to the rules of composition compared to the original which was a deliberate break of the rules.
_DSC7965 bnw blue lab double solariser with color ontop blend exclusion CROP TIGHT
“Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc.
I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.”
(Amitabh Bachchan - Indian actor, b.1942)
I was going to Allahabad in order to catch a train to go to Delhi.
There was a little town on the way where the traffic was jammed at a crossroad.
Suddenly a monkey jumped on the car asking for sweets.
As I was searching for some food he saw a man on a bicycle and jumped on his back grabbing his shirt as if he knew him and was used to do this.
This moment spread happiness in the street, even the kid in the background on the picture is laughing.
Later as I was looking at this image I was surprised to see that the man on the left looks the legendary Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan (Big B).
Then this image takes another meaning as the unexpected guest might not be the monkey anymore...
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Au second plan: buste du Bouddha Amida / Amitabha
Époque de Heian (794-1185)
période de Fujiwara (794-1160)
seconde moitié du 11è siècle
Bois, laque et feuille d'or
Achat, 1987
Au premier plan : Bouddha Amida assis
Amida fait le geste de la transmission de la Loi ou de l'explication de la Loi (Vitarka-mudra)
Époque de Heian (794-1185)
période de Fujiwara (794-1160)
11è-12è siècle
Bois, traces de polychromie
Mission Gaston Migeon, 1907
Amida est le Bouddha au centre du culte de la Terre pure de l'ouest, appelée aussi Sukhavati, la "Bienheureuse". Ce culte venu de Chine était très pratiqué au Japon.
Statues présentées dans la rotonde de la bibliothèque historique du musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet à Paris
En reflet dans la vitrine d'Amida, sculpture en porcelaine « Réduction » de l'artiste japonais Takahiro Kondo, 2014, acquise par le musée Guimet, oeuvre créée à partir d'un moulage de son propre corps en position yogique (padsama) et réduite de 20% par la cuisson de la terre.
www.guimet.fr/non-classifiee/une-oeuvre-de-takahiro-kondo...
Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris
"Raring to go
Further and beyond
The audacious instincts
Rips across hurdles
To delve deeper
Into the unknown.........."
- Amitabh Radiance
Haji Sahib Sikkewale sells old coins in Lucknow's Chowk bazaar. He is 72 years old and a Lucknavi native. He has a bit part in the forthcoming Amitabh Bachchan movie where he will appear "as himself". he even gets to speak, welcoming the Bollywood superstar to his store!
Abhishek Bachchan, son of Bollywood god Amitabh Bachchan, is all over the place. In every State of the country, every city, every village and every street, one cannot but come across his face. He's not an exception, though, as advertising seems to be the thing to do for most famous Bollywood actors. Whether it be for Pespi, Mobile phones or brands of crisps, they'll just go for it.
Being considered as great examples for a lot of Indians, especially the young people (they're educated, rich and beautiful, and most importantly, they usually look whiter than a Spaniard), their influence is understandably huge. India has always had this tendency to deifiy everything. And from Bollywood film sets to the holy cow, there's a fine line.
Bhuj, Gujarat, India. 2009
Buddha Amitabha formant le geste de prédication
La période Heian s'étend approximativement sur quatre siècles. De 794, année où la cour impériale déménagea dans sa nouvelle capitale : Heian-Kyô ("Capitale de la paix et de la tranquillité"; actuelle Kyôtô); à 1185, lorsque la puissance des Taira (Heiké) déclina et que le pays tomba sous la domination du pouvoir militaire établi par Minamoto no Yoritomo à Kamakura (qui ouvre la période dite Kamakura).
Kamakura - Grand buddha Daibutsu Bronze mesurant plus de 13.50 m
Parmi de nombreux temples, mausolées et monuments historiques, le monument le plus célèbre aujourd'hui est très certainement le grand bouddha Amitabha de Kamakura. Ce daibutsu est une sculpture en bronze, fondue vers 1252, d'une hauteur de l'ordre de 13,35 m. Les mains du Bouddha ont été sculptées, de manière stylisée, dans la posture dite jo-in, de la méditation zen.
Le bâtiment qui abritait ce grand bouddha de Kamakura aurait été détruit, selon les sources, soit par un typhon, soit par un tsunami, à la fin du XVe siècle. Une plaque en japonais apposée sur les ruines de ce bâtiment parle d'un tsunami (ceci laisse songeur lorsque, depuis le pied de ce bouddha, on voit la mer en contrebas, au loin, peut-être à un kilomètre à vol d'oiseau).
Le grand Bouddha de Kamakura (entrée 200 yens) n'est pas directement relié à la station de Kamakura. Il faut prendre un bus ou un train local longeant la mer pour la station (Station Hase). Entre la gare et le Daibutsu, sur la gauche en montant au Daibutsu, se trouve le vaste temple Hase-dera, plutôt agréable (cloche, jardins, vue, grottes, trésors divers) avec une vue sur la baie (entrée 300 yens)).
Le daibutsu Amitabha de KamakuraAu cœur de la ville, face à la mer et séparé d'elle par une longue allée plantée de cerisiers et bordée de lanternes de pierre, se trouve le temple Tsurugaoka Hachiman Gu dédié à Hachiman, dieu de la guerre, divinité tutélaire du clan Minamoto.
En arrière de la ville, dans des collines protégées de la construction, on trouve de nombreux temples et leurs larges domaines ; certains sont le siège des écoles du bouddhisme zen japonais. Près de la station de Kita-kamakura (signifiant Nord de Kamakura), dans le temple Engaku-ji, est enterré le fameux cinéaste japonais Yasujirō Ozu.
The men who help you with your luggage at Victoria Terminus, Bombay's train station that connects it to the rest of India.
Its an age old job, handed down the generations and again played by Amitabh Bachan in one of his most famous movies early in his career.
Vitrine consacrée à Émile Guimet, créateur du musée éponyme sur les religions
Au centre : Le Bouddha Amitabha, Japon, période d'Edo, bois laqué, or, couleurs, prêt du musée Guimet
Notice dans la base de données de l'agence photo de la RMN
www.photo.rmn.fr/archive/16-526299-2C6NU0A4A1BJ6.html
À droite : Saikoku sanjûsankasho Kannon, Japon, période d'Edo, bois doré, prêt du musée Guimet
Notice agence photo RMN
www.photo.rmn.fr/archive/16-512377-2C6NU0A72ELKR.html
Ces deux oeuvres font partie du Panthéon Bouddhique reconstitué par Émile Guimet à Paris pour son musée des religions. Cet ensemble de statues longtemps exposé dans l'annexe du musée Guimet a été mis en réserve.
Le panthéon bouddhique (photo dalbera)
www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/38686595785/in/album-721576...
www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/5422563138/in/album-7215762...
Oeuvres présentées dans l'exposition "Japon Japonismes" au musée des arts décoratifs (MAD), Paris
madparis.fr/francais/musees/musee-des-arts-decoratifs/exp...
Dans le cadre de la saison « Japonismes 2018 », le Musée des Arts Décoratifs à Paris rend hommage au Japon et à son art et révèle à cette occasion toute la richesse de ses collections qui illustrent depuis la fin du XIXe siècle les relations artistiques entre ces deux grandes nations.
I made costumes of Amitji in Bade Miya Chote Miya and Lal Badshah
from wikipedia
Amitabh Bachchan ([əmɪtaːbʱ bəttʃən] ( listen), born Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan on 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades.[1][2] Bachchan is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema.[3][4][5]
Bachchan has won numerous major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards as Best Actor, and fourteen Filmfare Awards. He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 37 nominations overall. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s. He has received both the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan civilian awards from the Indian government.
Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was a Hindi poet, and his mother, Teji Bachchan, was a Sikh from Faisalabad (now in Pakistan).[6] Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired from the famous phrase Inquilab Zindabad, during the Indian independence struggle. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh which means, "the light that would never go off." Though his surname was Shrivastava, his father had adopted the pen-name Bachchan (meaning child-like in colloquial Hindi), under which he published all his works. It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films, and, for all public purposes, it has become the surname of all members of his family. Bachchan's father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007.[7]
Amitabh is the elder of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's two sons, the second being Ajitabh. His mother had a keen interest in theatre and had been offered a role in a film, but preferred her domestic duties. She had some degree of influence in Bachchan's choice of career because she always insisted that he should take the centre stage.[8]
Bachchan made his film debut in 1969 as a voice narrator in Mrinal Sen's National Award winning film Bhuvan Shome. Thereafter he got his first acting role as one of the seven protagonists in Saat Hindustani, a film directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and featuring Utpal Dutt, Madhu and Jalal Agha. Though the film was not a financial success, Bachchan won his first National Film Award for Best Newcomer.[9]
Anand (1971) followed, where he starred alongside Rajesh Khanna. Bachchan's role as a doctor with a cynical view of life garned him his first Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. He then played his first negative role as an infatuated lover-turned-murderer in Parwaana (1971). This was followed by several films including Reshma Aur Shera (1971). During this time, he made a guest appearance in the film Guddi which starred his future wife Jaya Bhaduri. He narrated part of the film Bawarchi. In 1972, he made an appearance in the road action comedy Bombay to Goa, directed by S. Ramanathan. Many of his films during this early period did not do well, but that was about to change.[10]
Rise to stardom: 1973–1983
Director Prakash Mehra cast him in the leading role for the film Zanjeer (1973) as Inspector Vijay Khanna. The film was a sharp contrast to the romantically themed films that had generally preceded it and established Amitabh in a new persona—the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema.[2] He earned a Filmfare nomination for Best Actor. Filmfare considers this one of the iconic performances of Bollywood history.[10] The year 1973 was also when he married Jaya, and around this time they appeared in several films together; not only in Zanjeer but in films such as Abhimaan which followed and was released only a month after their marriage. Later, Bachchan played the role of Vikram in the film Namak Haraam, a social drama directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and scripted by Biresh Chatterjee addressing themes of friendship. His supporting role won him his second Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award.[citation needed]
Bachchan in Deewar.
In 1974, Bachchan made several guest appearances in films such as Kunwara Baap and Dost, before playing a supporting role in Roti Kapda Aur Makaan. The film, directed and written by Manoj Kumar, addressed themes of honesty in the face of oppression and financial and emotional hardship. Bachchan then played the leading role in film Majboor, released on 6 December 1974, which was a remake of the Hollywood film Zigzag. The film was only a moderate success at the box office.[11] In 1975, he starred in a variety of film genres from the comedy Chupke Chupke, the crime drama Faraar to the romantic drama Mili. 1975 was the year when he appeared in two films which are regarded as important in Hindi cinematic history. He starred in the Yash Chopra directed film Deewaar, opposite Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, and Neetu Singh, which earned him a Filmfare Nomination for Best Actor. The film became a major hit at the box office in 1975, ranking in at number 4.[12] Indiatimes Movies ranks Deewaar amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.[13] Released on 15 August 1975 was Sholay (meaning flames), which became the highest grossing film of all time in India, earning INR 2,36,45,00,000 equivalent to US$ 60 million, after adjusting for inflation.[14] Bachchan played the role of Jaidev. In 1999, BBC India declared it the "Film of the Millennium" and like Deewar, has been cited by Indiatimes movies as amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.[13] In that same year, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards awarded it with the special distinction award called Filmfare Best Film of 50 Years.
Bachchan starred in comedies such as Chupke Chupke (1975) and Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) and in films such as Kabhie Kabhie (1976). In 1976, he was once again cast by director Yash Chopra in his second film, Kabhi Kabhie, a romantic tale in which Bachchan starred as a young poet named Amit Malhotra who falls deeply in love with a beautiful young girl named Pooja played by actress Rakhee Gulzar. The film saw him again nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award. In 1977, he won his first Filmfare Best Actor Award for his performance in Amar Akbar Anthony where he played the third lead opposite Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor as Anthony Gonsalves. In 1978 he starred in all four of the highest grossing films of India in that year.[15] He once again resumed double roles in films such as Kasme Vaade as Amit and Shankar and Don playing the characters of Don, a leader of an underworld gang and his look alike Vijay. His performance won him his second Filmfare Best Actor Award. He also performed in Trishul and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar which both earned him further Filmfare Best Actor nominations. He was billed a "one-man industry" by the French director François Truffaut.[16]
In 1979, for the first time, Amitabh was required to use his singing voice for the film Mr. Natwarlal in which he starred alongside Rekha. His performance in the film saw him nominated for both the Filmfare Best Actor Award and the Filmfare Best Male Playback Awards. In 1979, he also received Best Actor nomination for Kaala Patthar (1979) and then went on to be nominated again in 1980 for the Raj Khosla directed film Dostana, in which he starred opposite Shatrughan Sinha and Zeenat Aman. Dostana proved to be the top grossing film of 1980.[17] In 1981, he starred in Yash Chopra's melodrama film Silsila, where he starred alongside his wife Jaya and rumoured lover Rekha. Other films of this period include Ram Balram (1980), Shaan (1980), Lawaaris (1981), and Shakti (1982) which pitted him against legendary actor Dilip Kumar.[18]
1982 injury while filming Coolie
On 26 July 1982, while filming Coolie in the University Campus in Bangalore, Bachchan suffered a near fatal intestinal injury during the filming of a fight scene with co-actor Puneet Issar.[19] Bachchan was performing his own stunts in the film and one scene required him to fall onto a table and then on the ground. However as he jumped towards the table, the corner of the table struck his abdomen, resulting in a splenic rupture from which he lost a significant amount of blood. He required an emergency splenectomy and remained critically ill in hospital for many months, at times close to death. The public response included prayers in temples and offers to sacrifice limbs to save him, while later, there were long queues of well-wishing fans outside the hospital where he was recuperating.[20] Nevertheless, he spent many months recovering and resumed filming later that year after a long period of recuperation. The film was released in 1983, and partly due to the huge publicity of Bachchan's accident, the film was a box office success.[21]
The director, Manmohan Desai, altered the ending of Coolie after Bachchan's accident. Bachchan's character was originally intended to have been killed off but after the change of script, the character lived in the end. It would have been inappropriate, said Desai, for the man who had just fended off death in real life to be killed on screen. Also, in the released film the footage of the fight scene is frozen at the critical moment, and a caption appears onscreen marking this as the instant of the actor's injury and the ensuing publicity of the accident.[20]
Later, he was diagnosed with Myasthenia gravis. His illness made him feel weak both mentally and physically and he decided to quit films and venture into politics. At this time he became pessimistic, expressing concern with how a new film would be received and stated before every release, "Yeh film to flop hogi!" ("This film will flop").[22]
Politics: 1984–87
In 1984, Bachchan took a break from acting and briefly entered politics in support of long-time family friend, Rajiv Gandhi. He contested Allahabad's seat of 8th Lok Sabha against H. N. Bahuguna, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and won by one of the highest victory margins in general election history (68.2% of the vote).[23] His political career, however, was short-lived: he resigned after three years, calling politics a cesspool. The resignation followed the implication of Bachchan and his brother in the "Bofors scandal" by a newspaper, which he vowed to take to court. Bachchan was eventually found not guilty of involvement in the ordeal.[24]
His old friend, Amar Singh, helped him during a financial crisis due to the failure of his company ABCL. Therefore Bachchan started to support Amar Singh's political party, the Samajwadi party. Jaya Bachchan joined the Samajwadi Party and became a Rajya Sabha member.[25] Bachchan has continued to do favors for the Samajwadi party, including advertisements and political campaigns. These activities have recently gotten him into trouble again in the Indian courts for false claims after a previous incident of submission of legal papers by him, stating that he is a farmer.[26]
A 15 year press ban against Bachchan was imposed during his peak acting years by Stardust and some of the other film magazines. In his own defense, Bachchan claimed to have banned the press from entering his sets until late 1989.[27]
Slump and retirement: 1988–1992
In 1988, Bachchan returned to films, playing the title role in Shahenshah, which was a box office success due to the hype of Bachchan's comeback.[28] After the success of his comeback film however, his star power began to wane as all of his subsequent films failed at the box office. The 1991 hit film, Hum, for which he won his third Filmfare Best Actor Award, looked like it might reverse this trend, but the momentum was short-lived as his string of box office failures continued. Notably, despite the lack of hits, it was during this period that Bachchan won his first National Film Award for Best Actor, for his performance as a Mafia don in the 1990 film Agneepath. These years would be the last he would be seen on screen for some time. After the release of Khuda Gawah in 1992, Bachchan went into semi-retirement for five years. In 1994, one of his delayed films Insaniyat was released but was also a box office failure.[29]
Producer and acting comeback 1996–99
Bachchan turned producer during his temporary retirement period, setting up Amitabh Bachchan Corporation, Ltd. (A.B.C.L.) in 1996, with the vision of becoming a 10 billion rupees (approx 250 million $US) premier entertainment company by the year 2000. ABCL's strategy was to introduce products and services covering the entire section of the India's entertainment industry. Its operations were mainstream commercial film production and distribution, audio cassettes and video discs, production and marketing of television software, celebrity and event management. Soon after the company was launched in 1996, the first film was produced by the company. Tere Mere Sapne failed to do well at the box office but launched the careers of actors such as Arshad Warsi and South films star Simran. ABCL produced a few other films, none of which did well.
In 1997, Bachchan attempted to make his acting comeback with the film Mrityudata, produced by ABCL. Though Mrityudaata attempted to reprise Bachchan's earlier success as an action hero, the film was a failure both financially and critically. ABCL was the main sponsor of the 1996 Miss World beauty pageant, Bangalore but lost millions. The fiasco and the consequent legal battles surrounding ABCL and various entities after the event, coupled with the fact that ABCL was reported to have overpaid most of its top level managers, eventually led to its financial and operational collapse in 1997. The company went into administration and was later declared a failed company by Indian Industries board. The Bombay high court, in April 1999, restrained Bachchan from selling off his Bombay bungalow 'Prateeksha' and two flats till the pending loan recovery cases of Canara Bank were disposed of. Bachchan had, however, pleaded that he had mortgaged his bungalow to Sahara India Finance for raising funds for his company.[30]
Bachchan attempted to revive his acting career and had average success with Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998),[29] and received positive reviews for Sooryavansham (1999)[31] but other films such as Lal Baadshah (1999) and Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999) were box office failures.
Return to prominence: 2000–present
In 2000, Amitabh Bachchan appeared in Yash Chopra's box-office hit, Mohabbatein, directed by Aditya Chopra. He played a stern, older figure that rivalled the character of Shahrukh Khan. His role won him his third Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. Other hits followed, with Bachchan appearing as an older family patriarch in Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love (2001), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) and Baghban (2003). As an actor, he continued to perform in a range of characters, receiving critical praise for his performances in Aks (2001), Aankhen (2002), Khakee (2004) and Dev (2004). One project that did particularly well for Bachchan was Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black (2005). The film starred Bachchan as an aging teacher of a deaf-blind girl and followed their relationship. His performance was unanimously praised by critics and audiences and won him his second National Film Award for Best Actor and fourth Filmfare Best Actor Award. Taking advantage of this resurgence, Amitabh began endorsing a variety of products and services, appearing in many television and billboard advertisements. In 2005 and 2006, he starred with his son Abhishek in the hit films Bunty Aur Babli (2005), the Godfather tribute Sarkar (2005), and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (2006). All of them were successful at the box office.[32][33] His later releases in 2006 and early 2007 were Baabul (2006),[34] Ekalavya and Nishabd (2007), which failed to do well at the box office but his performances in each of them were praised by critics.[35]
In May 2007, two of his films Cheeni Kum and the multi-starrer Shootout at Lokhandwala were released. Shootout at Lokhandwala did very well at the box office and was declared a hit in India, while Cheeni Kum picked up after a slow start and only had average success.[36] A remake of his biggest hit, Sholay (1975), entitled Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, released in August of that same year and proved to be a major commercial failure in addition to its poor critical reception.[36] The year also marked Bachchan's first appearance in an English-language film, Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear. The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2007. He received positive reviews from critics who hailed his performance as his best ever since Black.[37] Bachchan was slated to play a supporting role in his first international film, Shantaram, directed by Mira Nair and starring Hollywood actor Johnny Depp in the lead. The film was due to begin filming in February 2008 but due to the writer's strike, was pushed to September 2008.[38] The film is currently "shelved" indefinitely.[39] Vivek Sharma's Bhoothnath, in which he plays the title role as a ghost, was released on 9 May 2008. Sarkar Raj, the sequel of the 2005 film Sarkar, released in June 2008 and received a positive response at the box-office. Paa, which released at the end of 2009 was a highly anticipated project as it saw him playing his own son Abhishek's Progeria-affected 13-year-old son, and it opened to favourable reviews, particularly towards Bachchan's performance. It won him his third National Film Award for Best Actor and fifth Filmfare Best Actor Award. In 2010, he debuted in Malayalam film through Kandahar, directed by Major Ravi and co-starring Mohanlal.[40] The film was based on the hijacking incident of the Indian Airlines Flight 814.[41] Bachchan did not receive any remuneration for this film.[42]
Television career
In the year 2000, Bachchan stepped up to host India's adaptation of the British television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? entitled, Kaun Banega Crorepati. As it did in most other countries where it was adopted, the program found immediate success. He has hosted all but one of the seasons of the show. Canara Bank withdrew its law suit against Bachchan in November 2000. Bachchan hosted KBC till November 2005, when he fell ill. At that time he was admitted to Lilavati Hospital's ICU once more, to undergo surgery for diverticulitis of the small intestine.[43] During the period and that following his recovery, most of his projects were put on hold, including KBC.[44] He has hosted all but one season of the show. Its success set the stage for his return to film popularity. In 2009 Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire in the first question of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contest "Amitabh Bachchan" was the correct answer to the question "Who was the star of Zanjeer? Feroz Abbas Khan performed as Amitabh Bachchan in a scene in the movie while Anil Kapoor performed as the host of the contest. Bachchan hosted the third season of the reality show Bigg Boss in 2009.[45]
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