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Jaya Bachchan (born Jaya Bhaduri; 1948) is an Indian actress and politician. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Jaya Bachchan is the wife of Amitabh Bachchan, and the mother of Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan. Bachchan 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.
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), Kora Kagaz (1974), among others. She appeared alongside her husband Amitabh Bachchan in films such as 'Bansi Birju ( 1972 ) .'Zanjeer (1973), Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975), Mili (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Following her marriage and the birth of her children, Bachchan restricted her film work for some years, and after her appearance in the 1981 film Silsila, she took an indefinite sabbatical from films. She returned to acting with Govind Nihlani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa in 1998. Since then, she has appeared in such films as Fiza (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), which garnered her several awards and nominations.
During her career, she has 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.
^ Gulzar, p. 457
^ Somaaya, Bhaawana (22 December 2000). "His humility appears misplaced". The Hindu. Retrieved 2011-09-19. "Probably the only actress to make a virtue out of simplicity, Jaya was the first whiff of realistic acting in an era when showbiz was bursting with mannequins"
^ "Jaya Bachchan". Retrieved 2012-05-22.
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Jaya Bachchan
Birth name Jaya Bhaduri
Nationality Inde
Birth 9 april 1948 (76 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Filmfare Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 9 april 1948 (76 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Filmfare Awards
Jaya Bachchan (born Jaya Bhaduri; 1948) is an Indian actress and politician. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Jaya Bachchan is the wife of Amitabh Bachchan, and the mother of Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan. Bachchan 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.
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), Kora Kagaz (1974), among others. She appeared alongside her husband Amitabh Bachchan in films such as 'Bansi Birju ( 1972 ) .'Zanjeer (1973), Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975), Mili (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Following her marriage and the birth of her children, Bachchan restricted her film work for some years, and after her appearance in the 1981 film Silsila, she took an indefinite sabbatical from films. She returned to acting with Govind Nihlani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa in 1998. Since then, she has appeared in such films as Fiza (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), which garnered her several awards and nominations.
During her career, she has 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.
^ Gulzar, p. 457
^ Somaaya, Bhaawana (22 December 2000). "His humility appears misplaced". The Hindu. Retrieved 2011-09-19. "Probably the only actress to make a virtue out of simplicity, Jaya was the first whiff of realistic acting in an era when showbiz was bursting with mannequins"
^ "Jaya Bachchan". Retrieved 2012-05-22.
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Char Adhyay (1997)
, 1h50Directed by Kumar Shahani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rajat Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan
Rating66%
Jaani Dost (1983)
Directed by Yash Chopra, K. Raghavendra Rao
Actors Dharmendra, Parveen Babi, Rekha, Jeetendra, Sridevi, Amjad Khan
Rating58%
Raj Nagar estates owner Raja Dharma Raj Singh is a millionaire. He and his wife Radha have a son and Radha is pregnant with a daughter. One day, Devan Kuber Singh, alias Cobra (Kader Khan), a smuggler and gangster, kills Dharma Raj and frames it as an accident. He then tries to kill Dharma Raj's son, Veeru (Jeetendra), but Veeru escapes. In his hiding place, Veeru meets a boy, Raju (Dharmendra), and they become good friends. Raju decides to spend time with Veeru, sacrificing his studies in the process.
Yeh Vaada Raha (1982)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Tina Ambani, Shammi Kapoor, Poonam Dhillon, Rakhee Gulzar, Rakesh Bedi
Roles Sunita Sikkan
Rating71%
Vikram Rai Bahadur is the only son of Mrs. Sharda, and sole heir to a vast business and estate. While vacationing with his artiste friend, Raja in Kashmir he meets a beautiful girl named Sunita and falls head over heels in love with her. Sunita was a great singer and had also got a contract to sing on Radio, she tells Vikram and also asked him to sing with her but he continuously denied her. Soon he proposes marriage to her, and she accepts. They go to the temple where they had first laid eyes on each other and seek God blessings as well as vow to never part till death, even tying the symbol of their love, a necklace vicky had won for Sunita in a fair, around a wishing pole.
Silsila (1981)
, 3h2Directed by Yash Chopra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Sanjeev Kumar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Roles Shobha Malhotra
Rating71%
Orphaned at very young age, brothers Shekhar Malhotra (Shashi Kapoor) and Amit Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan) lead independent lives. Shekhar is a Squadron Leader with the Indian Air Force, and Amit is an emerging writer. Shekhar has fallen in love with the lovely Shobha (Jaya Bachchan), while Amit seeks to woo the attractive Chandni (Rekha). Amit finds professional success as a playwright in Delhi, enjoying a successful launch into the circles of Delhi's intellectual elite. Amit's passion and dedication to his craft wins Chandni's affections for Amit, and they share a brief, blissful period of courtship.
Gol Maal (1979)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Comedy
Actors Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami, David Abraham, Amitabh Bachchan, Deven Varma
Roles Guest Appearance (herself)
Rating84%
Ramprasad Dashrathprasad Sharma (Amol Palekar) is looking for a better paying job. He and his sister Ratna (Manju Singh) have no relatives or acquaintances except Dr. Kedar (David). Dr. Kedar tells him about Bhavani Shankar's (Utpal Dutt) firm known as Urmila Traders.
Nauker (1979)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bachchan, Mehmood Ali, Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Lalita Pawar, Manmohan Krishna Chadha
Rating62%
Ek Baap Chhe Bete (1978)
Directed by Mehmood Ali
Actors Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Nutan, Jaya Bachchan, I. S. Johar, Shubha Khote, Mehmood Ali
Rating58%
Abhi To Jee Lein (1977)
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Danny Denzongpa, Simi Garewal, Iftekhar, Farida Jalal, Kiran Kumar
Rating47%
Himalay Se Ooncha (1975)
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Sunil Dutt, Mallika Sarabhai, Ranjeet, Rakesh Pandey, Shiv Kumar, Paidi Jairaj
Rating57%
Chupke Chupke (1975)
, 2h7Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Om Prakash, Asrani
Roles Vasudha
Rating82%
Professor Parimal Tripathi (Dharmendra) is a botany professor who falls in love with Sulekha Chaturvedi (Sharmila Tagore) during a women's college botany excursion. Prof. Parimal Tripathi helps the bungalow watchman to get to his village downhill to enable him to see his grandson who's fallen ill. Meanwhile he disguises himself as the bungalow watchman to protect the old man's job. Sulekha finds out one day about the cover-up and is charmed on seeing Parimal's real personality. They both get married. Parimal loves playing pranks and is the antithesis of regular professors. Sulekha, on the other hand is in awe of her jijaji (brother-in-law) Raghavendra (Om Prakash). She considers her jijaji to be highly intellectual and looks upon him as her idol. Parimal develops an inferiority complex thanks to Sulekha's excessive praise of her jijaji and decides to prove that he is in no way a lesser mortal. Jijaji, meanwhile, has written a letter to Haripad bhaiyya (David Abraham Cheulkar) asking him to send a driver who can speak good Hindi because his present driver James D'costa (Keshto Mukherjee) uses improper grammar. This provides the perfect opportunity for Parimal to get to see and interact with jijaji. Parimal becomes Pyaremohan Ilahabadi, a motor-mouth driver who pretends to hate the English language and so speaks only Hindi. So begins the comedy of errors, as Parimal and Sulekha play prank after prank on the unsuspecting jijaji.
Mili (1975)
, 2h4Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ashok Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Usha Kiran
Roles Mili
Rating73%
Mili (Jaya Bhaduri) is a story about a girl who suffers from pernicious anemia, a disease considered untreatable during the period the film was produced. Her lively, inquisitive and cheerful demeanour spreads happiness in everyone's life. She becomes an inspiration to her new neighbour Shekhar (Amitabh Bachchan) who is a drunkard and always depressed. With her cheerful ways she changes Shekhar and he falls in love with her, unaware of her ailment. When he comes to know about it, he thinks of going away as he cannot bear to see her die. A reproach from a neighbour makes him reconsider his decision. As he loves the girl, he offers to marry her and take her abroad for her treatment. The film begins and ends with a scene of a jet aircraft taking off, ostensibly carrying the couple to Switzerland where they hope to find a cure.
Sholay (1975)
, 3h24Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Action, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Buddy films
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Amjad Khan
Roles Radha
Rating80%
In the small village of Ramgarh, the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar) summons a pair of small-time thieves that he had once arrested. Thakur feels that the duo—Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan)—would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ₹ 50,000 reward. Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him, alive, for an additional ₹ 20,000 reward.
Dil Diwana (1974)
Directed by Narender Bedi
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Aruna Irani, Kamal Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Satyen Kappu, Kader Khan
Rating61%
Doosri Sita (1974)
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Romesh Sharma, Raza Murad, A. K. Hangal, Satyen Kappu, Mohan Choti
Rating27%
Kora Kagaz (1974)
Genres Drama
Actors Vijay Anand, Jaya Bachchan, Seema Biswas, Ramesh Sippy, A. K. Hangal, Achala Sachdev
Roles Archana Gupta
Rating72%
Professor Sukesh Dutt (Vijay Anand) and Archana Gupta (Jaya Bhaduri) meet each other in a chance encounter while traveling by BEST bus service in Mumbai. Their meeting again results in formal introduction to each other. Both get attracted to each other and get married. Archana's mother does not like Sukesh due to his modest income. She makes up stories about their affluence, which offends Sukesh. This results in acrimony between Archana and Sukesh, and they decide to separate. Archana goes to live with her parents, while Sukesh relocates. Archana's family asks her to forget Sukesh, and remarry, which Archana finds difficult since she still has feelings for Sukesh.