Name:Jaya Bhaduri
Date of Birth:April 9, 1948 Place of Birth:Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh,
India
Occupation:Actress, Politician
Years active:1963, 1971–1981,
1998–present
Spouse:Amitabh Bachchan (1973–present)
Children:Abhishek Bachchan
Shweta Nanda
Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan ( Hindi: जया बच्चन; born Jaya Bhaduri on 9 April 1948) is an Indian actress and politician. Jaya Bachchan is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Bachchan is the wife of Amitabh Bachchan, and is 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. Jaya Bachchan 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 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 in the coming years and after her appearance in the 1981 film Silsila, she took an indefinite sabbatical from films. Jaya Bachchan 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 six competitive Filmfare Awards: 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. Jaya Bachchan was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Early life
Jaya Bhaduri was born in a Hindu Bengali family to Indira and Taroon Kumar Bhaduri, writer, journalist and stage artist in Jabalpur. Jaya Bachchan studied in St. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal. She was awarded the Best All-India N.C.C. Cadet Award, during the Republic Day celebrations in 1966. She later studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, completing her graduation there as a gold medalist.
Career
Inspired by her experience with Ray, she decided to join Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune to learn acting, and passed out with the gold medal, and she was also picked out to play the eponymous role of Guddi in the 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee film, Guddi in which she played a schoolgirl obsessed with film star Dharmendra.Guddi was a success,and she moved to Bombay and soon picked other roles, however her role of a 14 year-old school girl, aided by her petite looks, created the girl-next-door image for her, which she was often associated with through the rest of her career. Though she tried to break out of the mould with glamourous roles as in Jawani Diwani (1972) and a negative character of the heroine faking amnesia, in Anamika (1973), she was mostly recognised for roles of this sort, which were credited with epitomising middle-class sensibility and which she played amiably in films of "middle-cinema" directors like Gulzar, Basu Chatterjee and indeed Hrishikesh Mukherjee.These films include Uphaar (1971), Piya Ka Ghar (1972), Parichay (1972), Koshish (1972) and Bawarchi (1972), with marked sensitivity By now, she was a popular star.
In Gulzar's Koshish (1973), Bhaduri and Sanjeev Kumar played a deaf couple who struggle through their difficulties as handicapped people. Jaya Bachchan described the film as a "a learning experience" which motivated to do social work in future.
Jaya Bachchan first acted with her future husband Amitabh Bachchan in the film, Bansi Birju (1972), followed by B.R. Ishara's Ek Nazar also in the same year.Amitabh had undergone a string of flops, and when most lead heroines refused to work him, in Salim-Javed scripted, Zanjeer (1973), she stepped into the film. The film turned out to be blockbuster and gave rise to Amitabh Bachchan's angry-young-man image.This was closely followed by their pairing in films like Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Jaya Bachchan's daughter Shweta was born while Jaya and Amitabh were working on Sholay. Following this she retired from films and focused on raising her children. Jaya Bachchan last film as a lead actress was Silsila (1981), opposite her husband. During the late 1980s she wrote the story for the film Shahenshah which starred her husband in the lead.
In 2007 Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, she appeared with son Abhishek Bachchan.
As of January 2011, she is set to appear in a Bangladeshi film titled Meherjaan starring with Victor Banerjee and Humayun Faridi. The film is based on a Bangaladesh-Pakistan love story in the backdrop of 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. Its a story of Meherjaan (played by Jaya Bachchan), a Bangladeshi girl who falls in love with a young Pakistani army officer who refuses to join the war and saves her from being raped by other Pakistani troops who do not however spare her cousin Neela and kill her father.
Political career
Bachchan was elected as a Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament, representing Rajya Sabha, and in February 2010 she stated her intent to complete her term.
Personal life
On 3 June 1973, she married actor Amitabh Bachchan. The couple have two children: Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan, who is also an actor. Shweta is married to industrialist Nikhil Nanda in Delhi, and has two children, Navya Naveli and Agastya Nanda ,while Abhishek Bachchan is married to Aishwarya Rai, also an actor.Awards and recognition
Filmfare Awards
Winner
1972 - Filmfare Special Award for Uphaar
1974 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Abhimaan
1975 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Kora Kagaz
1980 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Nauker
1998 - Filmfare Special Award for her contribution to the film industry.
2001 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Fiza
2002 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2004 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Kal Ho Na Ho
2007 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominated
1972 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Guddi
1972 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Uphaar
1974 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Koshish
1976 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Mili
1982 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Silsila
International Indian Film Academy Awards
Winner
2001 - IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Fiza
2002 - IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2004 - IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Kal Ho Na Ho
Other film awards
Winner
1972 - Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Special Award (Hindi film) for Guddi
1999 - Anandalok Awards: Special Editor Award
2001 - Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Best Actress in Supporting Role for Fiza
2001 - Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female for Fiza
2002 - Best Actress in a supporting role for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham at the Sansui Viewers Choice
Awards
Honours and recognitions
In 1992, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India.
In 1998, she was honoured with the Omega Award for Excellence: Lifetime Achievement.
Jaya Bachchan is a recipient of the "Yash Bharati Samman", UP state's highest award from the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
2000, Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image, an award for her "abiding contribution to Cinema".
2004, Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sansui Awards.
2010, Lifetime Achievement Award at the "Tongues on Fire" film festival in London
Filmography
1963 Mahanagar
1971 Guddi
Dhanni Meye
Uphaar
1972 Jawani Diwani
Bawarchi
Parichay
Bansi Birju
Piya Ka Ghar
Annadata
Ek Nazar
Samadhi
Koshish
Shor
Jai Jawan Jai Makan
1973 Gaai Aur Gori
Anamika
Phagun
Zanjeer
Abhimaan
1974 Aahat
Dil Diwana
Kora Kagaz
Naya Din Nai Raat
Doosri Sita
1975 Mili
Chupke Chupke
Sholay
1977 Abhi To Jee Lein
1978 Ek Baap Chhe Bete
1979 Nauker
1981 Silsila
1998 Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
2000 Fiza
2001 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
2002 Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe
2003 Kal Ho Naa Ho
2007 Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
2008 Lovesongs
Drona
2010 Aap Ke Liye Hum
2011 Meherjaan
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