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The angry young man mellows

Amitabh Bachhan turns 71
It is one more year in the life of Bollywood megastar, Amitabh Bachhan. On October 11, Bachchan turned 71. And the thespian is going strong.
"It is 71 now. Just last year or just the other day it was 70! The years seem to pass by faster now than they did before," Amitabh posted on his official blog.
Bur Bachchan is not complaining. At an age when most actors have hung up their boots, he is busy hosting the new season of TV game show "Kaun Banega Crorepati". Besides, he put in a great performance in Prakash Jha's recent "Satyagraha".
He also began shooting for "Bhootnath 2" on October 9. "Another new film 'Bhootnath 2' starts and as my make up Deepak Sawant would say 'ek aur meter down ho gaya' (another meter down)," Big B tweeted.
The actor had an early birthday celebration on the set of his quiz reality show KBC when he was gifted a miniature "bel gadi" by a contestant while another brought her 100-year-old Alzheimer suffering mother, who does not remember anything other than Bachchan and his movies.
"There was a desire to push the pedal all along those early years, to mature, to become adult, to bring on greater age. Now, you depress the brakes pedal with equal effort, and hope to stem the slide as it were," he added on his blog.
Nevertheless, he says he is accepting the years, "the giving up on time, on age. It shall happen to us all. That is the commonality of the process of life. We are blessed, all of us," he posted.
The not-so "angry young man" of Hindi films has come a long way from his early days of struggle when his baritone voice failed to get him a niche in All India Radio or when he
spent a few nights on a bench at Marine Drive, Mumbai. He loves to point out that bench now. Bachchan's first salary was Rs 500 and he was paid just Rs. 1,000 for his debut in the offbeat and black-and-white film "Saat Hindustani".
After playing the the title role in "Shahenshah", he gained a fan following with "Laawaris", "Coolie", "Naseeb", Silsila", "Sharabi" and "Jaadugar" . In the year 2000, he became the first living Asian to have been immortalised in wax at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. He was also elected member of the Indian Parliament from the year 1984 to 1987. Bachchan has won numerous major awards, including four National Film Awards and fourteen Filmfare Awards.
Bachchan is riding high and his '70s will no doubt be an action packed decade.
Compiled by correspondent