The most famous person you don’t know
He is an actor who has appeared in around 180 films. Britain’s “Sunday Times” has described him as “Tom Cruise, Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood rolled into one.” In 1999, he was named the Greatest Star of the Millennium by a BBC Online poll. He was a Member of Parliament for three years, he is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, and he is immortalised in wax at London’s Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.
But you have never heard of him.
Who is he?
He is the Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan.
He was staying at the same hotel as me when I was on holiday in India and visiting the city of Varanasi (where he was cremating his father) and he was in the news this week because of the engagement of his son Abhishek who is also a film actor.