Amitabh Bachchan: The megastar's characters that were larger than life

megastar of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan will soon complete his 50 golden years working as a full-time actor. actor marked his debut in year 1969 with Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's directorial, Saat Hindustani. Across various genres, he has portrayed numerous characters. Here are some of his larger-than-life characters who were loved and praised by audience and critics. 

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Vijay Verma - Deewar

Struggling with a series of unfortunate events of life, Vijay fights for his and his family's rights. To support well-being of his family, he starts as a boot polisher as a child. Later in his teen, he becomes a dockyard worker and ends up as a smuggler and a leading figure of underworld in his adulthood. His character fails to realise that path he has opted is taking him away from people for whom he walked on it in first place. 

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Iqbal - Coolie

Amitabh shined in role of a dynamic, confident young man, who takes pride in what he does. Due to his se traits, he is considered as leader of local coolies. His role of common working-class man who takes on rich was loved by audience. movie was also kwn for life-threatening accident Amitabh had while shooting. 

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Buddhadev Gupta - Cheeni Kum

His character Buddhadev, an arrogant and egocentric man, who is in his 60's falls in love with a 34-year-old lady. film explores struggles of a 64-year-old bachelor man to convince his far to accept his love interest played by Tabu. He also shares a beautiful bond of friendship with a 9-year-old-girl who is diagsed with cancer. 

Auro - Paa

actor played character of a 12-year-old boy who is intelligent and witty but diagsed with a rare genetic disorder kwn as Progeria. This is t only struggle for his character Auro. Auro as a dynamic character tries to reunite his parents when he is on death bed. He forgives his far for t accepting him and hurting his mor. 

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Dattatraya Vakharia - 102 t Out

Dattatraya Vakharia character tries to teach audience how one can live ir life happily. As a 102-year-old far, he lives his life way different than his 76-year-old son. Though his character's son played by Rishi Kapoor has accepted his old , Dattatraya never misses an opportunity to relive moments.