When Amitabh Bachchan confided in Abhishek Bachchan about financial crunch and bankruptcy
Amitabh Bachchan gets second cataract surgery done
Amitabh Bachchan is inarguably one of the biggest superstars the century has ever seen. Despite having worked in the industry for over five decades, Big B still remains one of the most sought-after actors. He might be at the top of his game now, with the entire fraternity looking up to him but there was a time when things had gone pretty hunky-dory for the legend.
Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan
It is no secret that Amitabh Bachchan s production house – ABCL – underwent such extreme financial loss that they had to declare themselves bankrupt. Recently, Abhishek Bachchan spoke up about that phase and how he left his college to help out his father.
The changing face of hindi film entrepreneurs
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Scam 1992 (on Sony Liv), which told the story of
Harshad Mehta in granular detail, was the breakthrough series. It followed his rise from a lowly stockbroker to a messiah who controlled the fate of the market, painting Mehta as simultaneously arrogant and ambitious, irrepressible and charismatic, leaping from risk to risk without a care for failure. It was the most compelling portrait yet of an entrepreneur on Indian screens.
In the black-and-white era, as well as the first two decades of colour cinema in India, film characters with an entrepreneurial spirit were rare. There were practical reasons for this. In the post-independence years, it was difficult for young people to strike out on their own. When the hero in a 1950s or 60s film ran a business or ran from it, like Shammi Kapoor in