She also starred in Karan Johar's ensemble family melodrama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. In 2000, she starred in Fiza for which she received the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. During the late 1980s, she wrote the story for Shahenshah (1988), which starred her husband in the lead.Īfter a gap of 18 years, she returned to acting with Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998), a film about the Naxalite movement.
Following this, she retired from films and focused on raising her children, making an exception for Yash Chopra's Silsila (1981), once again opposite her husband. Her daughter Shweta was born around the time Jaya and Amitabh were working on Sholay. Jaya Bachchan with her husband Amitabh Bachchan in 2002 All their successive films as a pair were huge hits - Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975), Mili (1975) and Sholay (1975). The film turned out to be a big hit creating Amitabh Bachchan's angry-young-man image. When Amitabh had faced a string of flops and most lead heroines refused to work with him in the Salim–Javed scripted Zanjeer (1973), she agreed to step in. She first acted with Amitabh Bachchan in Bansi Birju (1972), followed by B.R. She described the film as "a learning experience" which motivated her to do social work in future. In Gulzar's Koshish (1973), Bhaduri and Sanjeev Kumar played a deaf couple who struggle through their difficulties as handicapped people. While she did venture out to play glamorous roles as in Jawani Diwani, (1972) and a semi-negative character of an amnesia-faking heroine in Anamika (1973), she was most recognised for her roles epitomising middle-class sensibility, which she played amiably in films of "middle-cinema" directors such as Gulzar, Basu Chatterjee and indeed Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Guddi was a commercial success, and created the girl-next-door image for her, which she was often associated with through the rest of her career. Hrishikesh Mukherjee cast her in Guddi (1971), to play the eponymous role of a petite school-girl obsessed with film star Dharmendra. Inspired by her experience with Ray, she joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune and graduated with the gold medal. She first starred in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film, Mahanagar (1963) at the age of 15, with Anil Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee.She then appeared in two more Bengali films: a 13-minute short Suman, and the comedy Dhanyee Meye (1971), where she played the role of Uttam Kumar's sister-in-law.
Jaya Bachchan is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India. Jaya Bachchan with husband Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek Bachchan and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai She is a member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from the Samajwadi Party, serving four terms since 2004. She has since appeared in the critically-acclaimed films Fiza (2000), Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. After a 17-year sabbatical, she returned to acting with Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998). The cult film Sholay (1975) saw her playing the lauded role of a young widow.įollowing her marriage to actor Amitabh Bachchan and the birth of their children, she restricted her work in films, notably appearing in Nauker (1979) and Silsila (1981).
She starred alongside her husband Amitabh Bachchan in several films, including Zanjeer (1973), Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975), Mili (1975). She was noted for her refreshing performances in films like Uphaar (1971), Koshish (1972) and Kora Kagaz (1974), among others. 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 collaborated in several films thereafter. She has received several accolades, including nine Filmfare Awards and the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honour awarded by the Government of India. Known primarily for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema, she is noted for reinforcing a natural style of acting in both mainstream and "middle-of-the-road" cinema. Jaya Bachchan ( née Bhaduri born 9 April 1948) is an Indian actress and politician.
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