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Apr 09, 1948 Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India 76 years old
Indian politician and actress
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About Jaya Bachchan
- Jaya Bachchan (née Bhaduri; born on 9 April 1948) is an Indian film actress and politician.
- She is currently the Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from the Samajwadi Party, notably serving four terms since 2004.
- She is recognised as one of the finest Hindi film actresses of her time, particularly known for reinforcing a naturalistic style of acting in both mainstream and "middle-of-the-road" cinema.
- During her career, she won nine Filmfare Awards: including three for Best Actress and three for Best Supporting Actress, which makes her the overall most-awarded performer in the female acting categories, along with Nutan.
- She was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
- In 1992, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.Making her film debut as a teenager in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar (1963), Bachchan's first screen role as an adult was in Guddi (1971), directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, with whom she would collaborate in several films.
- She was noted for her performances in films including Uphaar (1971), Koshish (1972) and Kora Kagaz (1974), among others.
- She appeared alongside her husband Amitabh Bachchan in films such as Zanjeer (1973), Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975), Mili (1975) and Sholay (1975). Following her marriage to actor Amitabh Bachchan and the birth of their children, Bachchan restricted her work in films.
- After her appearance in the Silsila (1981), she took an indefinite sabbatical from films.
- She returned to acting with Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa in 1998.
- Since then, she has appeared in several critically and commercially successful films such as Fiza (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
- (2001) and Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), all which garnered her critical acclaim, as well as several awards and nominations.
