Absolutely mesmerising, he could take you out of your real world and into the one he was creating in a heartbeat...to the extent that, when the film was over, reality came as a shock.

Body of work is amazing and extremely diversified Westerns, Drama, Comedy and Romance

The charismatic brilliance of his presence dominated the screen - there was no angle the camera didn't like...and the power of his blue-eyed gaze was exceeded only by the quality of his acting.

An amazing range of expressions from boyish innocence to calculating killer, emotional moments with a son or a father whose memory is fading, joking with a friend or seducing a woman, his face and vocal expression [not to mention a sexy voice] are equalled by few. Graceful yet intensely masculine, this charismatic alpha male commands both large and small screens.

July 1999, Amitabh Bachchan was named the "Greatest Star of the Millennium" by BBC online poll, In June 2000, he became the first living Asian to have been immortalised in wax at London's prestigious Madame Tussauds wax museum British newspaper The Sunday Times has described Bachchan as "Tom Cruise, Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood rolled into one On January 27, 2007 he has been awarded France's highest civilian honour, the Knight of the Legion of Honour for his "exceptional career in the world of cinema and beyond"

Just because