amitabh bachchan has won awards internationally
 early life and family bachchan was born on 11 october 1942 in allahabad to the hindi poet harivansh rai bachchan and social activist teji bachchan
bachchan attempted to revive his acting career and eventually had commercial success with bade miyan chote miyan 1998 and major saab 1998 and received positive reviews for sooryavansham 1999 but other films such as lal baadshah 1999 and hindustan ki kasam 1999 were box office failures