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Jaya Bachchan

Born: April 9, 1949 Movies: 0 Songs: 0

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Alias: Jaya Bhaduri
Age: 77 years
Birth Place: Calcutta, Bengal, India
City: Mumbai
Occupation: Actress
Languages: Hindi
Eye Color: Black
Hair Color: Light Brown
Religion: Hinduism
Parents: Amitabh Bachchan
Children: Abhishek Bachchan, Shweta Nanda

Summary

Jaya Bhaduri was born in a Bengali Hindu family to Indira Bhaduri and Taroon Kumar Bhaduri, writer, journalist and stage artist in Calcutta. She studied in Loreto Convent, Shillong and at Loreto House, Calcutta. 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.

Biography

She started her career with a supporting role in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film, Mahanagar at the age of 15, with Anil Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee. Prior to this, she had appeared in two Bengali films: a 13-minute short film, Suman, and a Bengali comedy Dhanni Meye (1971), as Uttam Kumar's sister-in law. 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 Mumbai 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.

Facts & Trivia

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,[18] while Abhishek Bachchan is married to Aishwarya Rai, also an actor who recently gave birth to a baby girl Aaradhya Bachchan.