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	==See also==		==See also==
	~~{{Portal\|Bollywood\|Biography}}~~
	* [[List of awards and nominations received by Amitabh Bachchan]]		* [[List of awards and nominations received by Amitabh Bachchan]]
	* [[List of Bollywood actors]]		* [[List of Bollywood actors]]

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	Bachchan was born on 11 October 1942 in [[Allahabad]] to the Hindi poet [[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]], and social activist [[Teji Bachchan]].<ref>{{cite news \|last=Masih \|first=Archana \|date=9 October 2012 \|title=Take a tour of Amitabh's home in Allahabad \|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-take-a-tour-of-amitabhs-home-in-allahabad/20121009.htm \|work=[[Rediff.com]] \|access-date=14 February 2014 }}</ref> Harivansh Rai Bachchan was an [[Awadhi people\|Awadhi]] [[Hindu]] [[Kayastha]],<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Bhattacharya \|first1=Sreemita \|title=I am proud of my surname: Amitabh Bachchan \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/I-am-proud-of-my-surname-Amitabh-Bachchan/articleshow/9393354.cms \|access-date=3 March 2021 \|work=The Times of India \|date=28 July 2011 \|language=en}}</ref> who was fluent in [[Awadhi language\|Awadhi]],<ref name="sikh">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5Z9_ysSgW8C\|title=Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire\|last=Mishra\|first=Vijay\|date=2002\|page=131\|publisher=Psychology Press\|isbn=9780415930147\|language=en}}</ref> [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]].<ref name="West-Pavlov">{{cite book \|last=West-Pavlov \|first=Russell \|title=The Global South and Literature \|date=2018 \|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] \|isbn=9781108246316 \|page=167 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yMdJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167}}</ref> Harivansh's ancestors came from a village called [[Babupatti]], in the Raniganj tehsil, in the [[Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh\|Pratapgarh district]], in the present-day state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], in [[India]].<ref>{{cite web\|title=Jaya inaugurates library in memory of Harivansh Rai Bachchan \|website= OneIndia.com \|publisher=Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd \|url=http://www.oneindia.com/2006/03/05/jaya-inaugurates-library-in-memory-of-harivansh-rai-bachchan-1141626344.html\|access-date=18 November 2015\|date= 6 March 2006 }}</ref> Teji Bachchan was a [[Punjabis\|Punjabi]] [[Sikh]] [[Khatri]] from [[Faisalabad\|Lyallpur]], [[Punjab Province (British India)\|Punjab]], [[British Raj\|British India]] (present-day [[Punjab, Pakistan\|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]).<ref name="sikh"/><ref>{{cite news \|last1=PTI \|title=Amitabh Bachchan remembers 'most beautiful woman' mother on her birthday \|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/amitabh-bachchan-remembers-most-beautiful-woman-mother-on-her-birthday/articleshow/40115335.cms \|access-date=3 March 2021 \|work=The Economic Times \|date=12 August 2014}}</ref> Bachchan has a younger brother, Ajitabh.<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWquGT2c6DkC&pg=PA327\|page=327\|title=In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography\|author=[[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]]\|publisher=Penguin Books India\|year= 2001\|isbn =0140276637}}</ref>		Bachchan was born on 11 October 1942 in [[Allahabad]] to the Hindi poet [[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]], and social activist [[Teji Bachchan]].<ref>{{cite news \|last=Masih \|first=Archana \|date=9 October 2012 \|title=Take a tour of Amitabh's home in Allahabad \|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-take-a-tour-of-amitabhs-home-in-allahabad/20121009.htm \|work=[[Rediff.com]] \|access-date=14 February 2014 }}</ref> Harivansh Rai Bachchan was an [[Awadhi people\|Awadhi]] [[Hindu]] [[Kayastha]],<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Bhattacharya \|first1=Sreemita \|title=I am proud of my surname: Amitabh Bachchan \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/I-am-proud-of-my-surname-Amitabh-Bachchan/articleshow/9393354.cms \|access-date=3 March 2021 \|work=The Times of India \|date=28 July 2011 \|language=en}}</ref> who was fluent in [[Awadhi language\|Awadhi]],<ref name="sikh">{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5Z9_ysSgW8C\|title=Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire\|last=Mishra\|first=Vijay\|date=2002\|page=131\|publisher=Psychology Press\|isbn=9780415930147\|language=en}}</ref> [[Hindi]] and [[Urdu]].<ref name="West-Pavlov">{{cite book \|last=West-Pavlov \|first=Russell \|title=The Global South and Literature \|date=2018 \|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] \|isbn=9781108246316 \|page=167 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yMdJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA167}}</ref> Harivansh's ancestors came from a village called [[Babupatti]], in the Raniganj tehsil, in the [[Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh\|Pratapgarh district]], in the present-day state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], in [[India]].<ref>{{cite web\|title=Jaya inaugurates library in memory of Harivansh Rai Bachchan \|website= OneIndia.com \|publisher=Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd \|url=http://www.oneindia.com/2006/03/05/jaya-inaugurates-library-in-memory-of-harivansh-rai-bachchan-1141626344.html\|access-date=18 November 2015\|date= 6 March 2006 }}</ref> Teji Bachchan was a [[Punjabis\|Punjabi]] [[Sikh]] [[Khatri]] from [[Faisalabad\|Lyallpur]], [[Punjab Province (British India)\|Punjab]], [[British Raj\|British India]] (present-day [[Punjab, Pakistan\|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]).<ref name="sikh"/><ref>{{cite news \|last1=PTI \|title=Amitabh Bachchan remembers 'most beautiful woman' mother on her birthday \|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/amitabh-bachchan-remembers-most-beautiful-woman-mother-on-her-birthday/articleshow/40115335.cms \|access-date=3 March 2021 \|work=The Economic Times \|date=12 August 2014}}</ref> Bachchan has a younger brother, Ajitabh.<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWquGT2c6DkC&pg=PA327\|page=327\|title=In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography\|author=[[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]]\|publisher=Penguin Books India\|year= 2001\|isbn =0140276637}}</ref>

	Bachchan's parents were initially going to name him ''Inquilaab'' ([[Hindustani language\|Hindustani]] for "Revolution"), inspired by the phrase ''[[Inquilab Zindabad]]'' (which translates into English as "Long live the revolution") popularly used during the [[Indian independence movement\|Indian independence]] struggle; the name ''Amitabh'' was suggested to his father by poet [[Sumitranandan Pant]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/did-you-know-/Amitabh-was-initially-named-Inquilaab/articleshow/15889267.cms\|title=Amitabh was initially named Inquilaab\|work=The Times of India\|date=28 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="N18Kbc">{{cite web\|url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/in-latest-episode-of-kbc-amitabh-bachchan-reveals-he-was-never-named-inquilab-2959868.html\|title=In Latest Episode of KBC, Amitabh Bachchan Reveals He was Never Named Inquilab\|access-date=26 July 2021\|date=13 October 2020}}</ref> Although his surname was [[Srivastava\|Shrivastava]], Amitabh's father, who opposed the [[Indian caste system\|caste system]], had adopted the pen name Bachchan ("child-like" in colloquial Hindi), under which he published all of his works.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/I-am-proud-of-my-surname-Amitabh-Bachchan/articleshow/9393354.cms\|date=28 July 2011\|access-date=26 July 2017\|title=I am proud of my surname Amitabh Bachchan}}</ref> When his father was looking to get him admitted to a school, he and Bachchan's mother decided the family's name should be Bachchan instead of Shrivastava.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/bollywood/amitabh-bachchan-got-his-surname-bacause-of-caste-system-1.65525580\|title=Amitabh Bachchan got his surname bacause of caste system\|website=gulfnews.com}}</ref> It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films and used for all other practical purposes, Bachchan has become the surname for all of his immediate family.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=In The Afternoon Time\|last=Bachchan\|first=Harivansh Rai\|publisher=Viking Pr\|year=1998\|isbn=978-0670881581}}</ref> Bachchan's father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Teji Bachchan passes away \|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=2078579f-853d-48ae-b826-eeee479169e2&ParentID=d5c75cbf-62a5-49eb-a016-0cf71383854b&&Headline=Big+B's+mother+Teji+Bachchan+is+no+more \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225061509/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=2078579f-853d-48ae-b826-eeee479169e2&ParentID=d5c75cbf-62a5-49eb-a016-0cf71383854b&&Headline=Big+B%27s+mother+Teji+Bachchan+is+no+more \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=25 December 2007 \|work=[[Hindustan Times]] \|author=Khan, Alifiya \|access-date=10 February 2011 }}</ref>		Bachchan's parents were initially going to name him ''Inquilaab'' ([[Hindustani language\|Hindustani]] for "Revolution"), inspired by the phrase ''[[Inquilab Zindabad]]'' (which translates into English as "Long live the revolution") popularly used during the [[Indian independence movement\|Indian independence]] struggle; the name ''Amitabh'' was suggested to his father by poet [[Sumitranandan Pant]].<ref name="N18Kbc">{{cite web\|url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/in-latest-episode-of-kbc-amitabh-bachchan-reveals-he-was-never-named-inquilab-2959868.html\|title=In Latest Episode of KBC, Amitabh Bachchan Reveals He was Never Named Inquilab\|access-date=26 July 2021\|date=13 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/did-you-know-/Amitabh-was-initially-named-Inquilaab/articleshow/15889267.cms\|title=Amitabh was initially named Inquilaab\|work=The Times of India\|date=28 August 2012}}</ref> Although his surname was [[Srivastava\|Shrivastava]], Amitabh's father, who opposed the [[Indian caste system\|caste system]], had adopted the pen name Bachchan ("child-like" in colloquial Hindi), under which he published all of his works.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/I-am-proud-of-my-surname-Amitabh-Bachchan/articleshow/9393354.cms\|date=28 July 2011\|access-date=26 July 2017\|title=I am proud of my surname Amitabh Bachchan}}</ref> When his father was looking to get him admitted to a school, he and Bachchan's mother decided the family's name should be Bachchan instead of Shrivastava.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/bollywood/amitabh-bachchan-got-his-surname-bacause-of-caste-system-1.65525580\|title=Amitabh Bachchan got his surname bacause of caste system\|website=gulfnews.com}}</ref> It is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films and used for all other practical purposes, Bachchan has become the surname for all of his immediate family.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=In The Afternoon Time\|last=Bachchan\|first=Harivansh Rai\|publisher=Viking Pr\|year=1998\|isbn=978-0670881581}}</ref> Bachchan's father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Teji Bachchan passes away \|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=2078579f-853d-48ae-b826-eeee479169e2&ParentID=d5c75cbf-62a5-49eb-a016-0cf71383854b&&Headline=Big+B's+mother+Teji+Bachchan+is+no+more \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225061509/http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=2078579f-853d-48ae-b826-eeee479169e2&ParentID=d5c75cbf-62a5-49eb-a016-0cf71383854b&&Headline=Big+B%27s+mother+Teji+Bachchan+is+no+more \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=25 December 2007 \|work=[[Hindustan Times]] \|author=Khan, Alifiya \|access-date=10 February 2011 }}</ref>

	Bachchan was educated at [[Boys' High School & College (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)\|Boys’ High School & College]], [[Allahabad]]; [[Sherwood College]], [[Nainital]]; and [[Kirori Mal College]], [[University of Delhi]].<ref>{{ cite news\|title=Amitabh Bachchan's journey to the top\|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Amitabh+Bachchan%27s+journey+to+the+top/1/65773.html\|newspaper=[[India Today]]\|date=10 October 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title= Bachchan@77 - 'Big B was a boxer when he was Chhota B'\|url=https://m.hindustantimes.com/cities/bachchan-77-big-b-was-a-boxer-when-he-was-chhota-b/story-IhMWG9vPh7cq2DMZV6sR0N_amp.html\|work=[[Hindustan Times]]\|date=11 October 2019 \|access-date=4 January 2020}}</ref> When Bachchan finished his studies his father approached [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], the founder of [[Prithvi Theatre]], to see if there was an opening for him, but Kapoor "offered no encouragement".<ref name= page412>{{cite book\|page=312\|title=In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography\|author=[[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]]\|publisher=Penguin Books India\|year= 2001\|isbn =0140276637}}</ref> Bachchan then applied for a role as a newsreader for [[All India Radio]], but "failed the audition".<ref name= page412/> He became a business executive for Bird & Company in [[Kolkata]] (Calcutta),<ref name= page412/> and worked in the theatre before starting his film career.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia\|url= https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amitabh-Bachchan\|encyclopedia=britannica.com\|title=Amitabh Bachchan\|author=The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref> It is thought that his mother might have had some influence in Amitabh Bachchan's choice of career because she always insisted that he should "take centre stage".<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iyy4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT9\|page=9\|title=My Life : Amitabh Bachchan\|author=GP Editors\|publisher= General Press\|date=22 October 2019\|isbn=978-9389440737}}</ref>		Bachchan was educated at [[Boys' High School & College (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh)\|Boys’ High School & College]], [[Allahabad]]; [[Sherwood College]], [[Nainital]]; and [[Kirori Mal College]], [[University of Delhi]].<ref>{{ cite news\|title=Amitabh Bachchan's journey to the top\|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/Amitabh+Bachchan%27s+journey+to+the+top/1/65773.html\|newspaper=[[India Today]]\|date=10 October 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|title= Bachchan@77 - 'Big B was a boxer when he was Chhota B'\|url=https://m.hindustantimes.com/cities/bachchan-77-big-b-was-a-boxer-when-he-was-chhota-b/story-IhMWG9vPh7cq2DMZV6sR0N_amp.html\|work=[[Hindustan Times]]\|date=11 October 2019 \|access-date=4 January 2020}}</ref> When Bachchan finished his studies his father approached [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], the founder of [[Prithvi Theatre]], to see if there was an opening for him, but Kapoor "offered no encouragement".<ref name= page412>{{cite book\|page=312\|title=In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography\|author=[[Harivansh Rai Bachchan]]\|publisher=Penguin Books India\|year= 2001\|isbn =0140276637}}</ref> Bachchan then applied for a role as a newsreader for [[All India Radio]], but "failed the audition".<ref name= page412/> He became a business executive for Bird & Company in [[Kolkata]] (Calcutta),<ref name= page412/> and worked in the theatre before starting his film career.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia\|url= https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amitabh-Bachchan\|encyclopedia=britannica.com\|title=Amitabh Bachchan\|author=The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica}}</ref> It is thought that his mother might have had some influence in Amitabh Bachchan's choice of career because she always insisted that he should "take centre stage".<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iyy4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT9\|page=9\|title=My Life : Amitabh Bachchan\|author=GP Editors\|publisher= General Press\|date=22 October 2019\|isbn=978-9389440737}}</ref>

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