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New Delhi, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is on bed rest following a stomach ache, but he is more concerned about the health of his politician friend Amar Singh, thespian Dilip Kumar and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and keeping himself updated on them. The megastar went to Lilavati Hospital Wednesday morning after a stomach ache [...]

Mumbai, Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan went to Lilavati Hospital here Wednesday morning for what was described as “a routine checkup”, though in his blog he has complained of a stomach ache. Though the hospital authorities declined to comment, the same old stomach problem that Bachchan, 66, has been suffering from for long may have recurred. [...]

New Delhi, Pop legend Michael Jackson was the “incredible perfection that god could have possibly created” and a man who personified “the impossible”, says Hindi film megastar Amitabh Bachchan. “He (Michael) changed the very psyche of not just the kind of music he was making, but also the psyche of the listening audience. Nothing compared to [...]

New Delhi, Superstar Amitabh Bachchan remembers legendary “sarod genius” Ali Akbar Khan, saying he was a treat for music lovers especially when he used to play with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and tabla exponent Ustad Allah Rakha. “We lost a great maestro in Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, the sarod genius. The ‘jugal bandi’ between him and [...]

Macau, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s wax figure, which was unveiled at the Madame Tussauds museum in New York last month, has been especially flown in to be showcased at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards event here. Amitabh’s wax figure, dressed in a traditional black sherwani suit with a heavily embroidered gold and black shawl, [...]

Macau, Despite his aversion to the term “Bollywood”, screen legend Amitabh Bachchan had no hesitation in commending a book bearing the title “Bollywood in Posters” at the start of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards weekend here Thursday. Film historian S.M.M. Ausaja put together the weighty volume which carries posters from the start of Indian [...]

Amitabh Bachchan says he wont take the doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology because of the recent attacks on Indians in Melbourne. Indian media describes the attacks as racist, and diplomatic relations between the two countries have become somewhat awkward. The prime ministers of the two countries have discussed the attacks over the phone, with [...]

New Delhi, Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has asked Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan to reconsider his decision to decline a honorary doctorate in the wake of a series of racist attacks on Indian students in that country. In a letter in response to Bachchan’s denial to the doctorate Saturday, QUT vice chancellor Peter Coaldrake has [...]

New Delhi, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has turned down an honorary doctorate from an Australian university for his contribution to the world of entertainment following a string of racial attacks on Indian students there, the actor said on his blog. The 66-year-old last week agreed to accept the honour from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, [...]

New Delhi, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, whose antipathy towards the media is well known, Wednesday said he “would like to be a journalist”. “I would like to be a journalist. In fact in my interviews that I had given in the 1970s, I mentioned during most of them that I want to become a journalist [...]