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.\u201d 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.
\nBut you have never heard of him.
\nWho is he?<\/p>\n
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\nHe is the Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan<\/a>.
\nHe was staying at the same hotel as me when I was on holiday in India and visiting the city of Varanasi<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"