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Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan born 5 February 1976 in Mumbai, India is an Indian actor and the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. He married actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai in 2007.

Abhishek is of Punjabi Sikh heritage from his grandmother Teji's side, while also of Bengali Kulin Brahmin descent from his mother Jaya Bhaduri's side.


Delhi 6 (2009) Dostana (2008) Drona (2008) Sarkaar Raj (2008) Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)

Guru (2007) Dhoom-.html">Dhoom 2 (2006) Umrao Jaan (2006) Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

Bluff Master (2005) Antar Mahal (2005) Dus (2005) Sarkar (2005) Bunty Aur Babli (2005)

Naach (2004) Phir Milenge (2004) Dhoom (2004) Yuva (2004) Run (2004) LOC Kargil (2003)

Zameen (2003) Kuch Naa Kaho (2003) Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost (2003)

Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003) Desh (2002) Om Jai Jagadish (2002) Shararat (2002)

Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya (2002) Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai (2001) Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya (2000)

Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke (2000) Refugee (2000)








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Abhishek Bachchan - what members say


  • Refugee
  • Refugee review by from Suffolk, England
    Rated - 4 stars Abhishek Bachchan & Kareena Kapoor's debut 20 April 2005
    ...der was a smash hit - the film increases the hope. It is also the launchpad for Abhishek Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor, the two rising star Children of superstars who are expected...  
  • Yuva
  • Yuva review by from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars The story of 3 youths.. 28 July 2004
    ... YUVA (translates to Youth) tells the story of three youngsters, and Lallan (Abhishek Bachchan), Michael (Ajay Devgan) and Arjun (Vivek Oberoi). Lallan is a henchman working...  
  • Umrao Jaan
  • Umrao Jaan review by A customer from Manchester
    Rated - 3 stars Good, but not great. 21 March 2007
    ...formance was definitely superior, but Aishwarya's portrayal was not far behind. Abhishek Bachchan was good, but looked out of place at times. Shabana Azmi was excellent as the r...  

Abhishek Bachchan - filmography


  • Mission Istanbul (2008)
    Starring: Shabbir Ahluwalia,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Shweta Bhardwaj
    Director: Apoorva Lakhia
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A promising journalist Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) is offered a position to head a controversial news station in Istanbul by its owner Owais Husain (Sunil Shetty). With this offer comes the promise of money and many other perks that make this offer hard to refuse. But when he begins to consider ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 14 members
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  • Dostana on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  John Abraham,  Priyanka Chopra
    Director: Tarun Mansukhani
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It's all happening in the Beach Party Capital of the world.....Miami is the setting for Dharma Productions latest offering Dostana - serving a cocktail of all ingredients to do with Friendship, Fun, Frolic and that thing called Love....but with a slight twist there is a small case of pretending to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 432 members
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  • Laaga Chunari Mein Daag on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jaya Bachchan,  Rani Mukerji,  Konkona Sen Sharma
    Director: Pradeep Sarkar
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Badki (elder sister) Rani Mukherji and Chutki (little sister) Konkona live a fun-filled life in Banaras, playing pranks, sneaking off to see a forbidden mujra, and soaking up all the excitement that goes on the ghats of the Ganga. When things get bad, Badki decides to go to Mumbai and seek a living ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 684 members
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  • Guru on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai,  Mithun Chakravarty
    Director: Mani Ratnam
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gurukant Desai (Abhishek) is the ambitious son of a small-time school teacher (Rajendra Gupta). After failing at school and earning his pessimistic father's displeasure he travels to Turkey for work. There he does well, but opts to return home to work for himself. Home, and lacking enough capital ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 966 members
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  • Dhoom 2 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hrithik Roshan,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Bipasha Basu
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    You Could'nt wipe The Smile Off Of Rookie Cop Ail's Face.Teamed Up With Fellow Officer Jai,His Dream Of Keeping The Streets Of India Safe Had Finally Become A Reality.But When A Hi-Tech International Thief Going By The Guise 'Mr.A' Targets Mumbai For His Next Spectacular Heist,It's Not Long Until ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,549 member
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  • Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shahrukh Khan,  Rani Mukherjee
    Director: Karan Johar
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    There are three kinds of married people in the world. First, whose marriages are arranged, I’ve never quite understood that, but I’m sure they know what they’re doing. Then there are those who fall in love and marry their soul mates. These few, I believe, are the most fortunate people in the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,172 member
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  • Umrao Jaan on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Aishwarya Rai,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: J P Dutta
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The real wealth of people is their culture and literary work. Which reflects the times, the place and the people. One such work was Mirza Hadi Ruswa's Umrao Jaan Ada. Ruswa was a teacher in mathematics, science, philosophy & Persian. Ruswa was born in 1857 in Licknow and his parents died when he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 488 members
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  • Neal 'N' Nikki on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Uday Chopra,  Tanisha Mukherjee,  Richa Pallod
    Director: Arjun Sablok
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set across the stunning landscape of British Columbia in Canada, Neal 'n' Nikki is the story of two Indians, born and bred in Canada. It is the story of a journey that changes their lives forever... Neal (Uday Chopra) gives into his parents' wishes of marrying a girl called Sweetie from Bhatinda, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 824 members
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  • Dus (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sanjay Dutt,  Suniel Shetty,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Anubhav Sinha
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed Khan and Shilpa Shetty work for the anti-terrorist cell. They get to understand that a dreaded terrorist in Canada [of Indian origin] is set to wreak havoc when the Indian Prime Minister is supposed to visit Canada, killing thousands of innocent civilians in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,265 member
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  • Run on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Abhishek Bachchan/ Bhoomika Chawla,  Bhoomika Chawla
    Director: Jeeva
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Every day brings with it many situations. Each situation brings with it some choices. Each choice brings with it two roads. One road which you run towards; the other which you run away from. But run you must!
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 405 members
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  • Sarkar on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Ram Gopal Varma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tells the story of Priyamvada Veer Pratap Singh, who is caught in the tension between caring for the needs of her family and taking part in political power games.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,777 member
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  • Naach on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Antara Mali
    Director: Ram Gopal Varma
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A love triangle between two people and their values. A married newspaper editor has feelings for his secretary and a relationship develops. Unbeknown to them, their respective partners are also embroiled in an illicit affair.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 569 members
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  • Dhoom on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Uday Chopra,  John Abraham
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When an armoured truck is robbed by four bikers using custom motorcycles, CID officer Jai Dixit turns to Ali, a garage mechanic, for help in tracking them down. However Ali is a reluctant partner at best, and may not be quite the help Jai needs him to be in order to catch the gang.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,009 members
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  • Yuva (2004)
    Starring: Ajay Devgan,  Vivek Oberoi,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Mani Ratnam
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    3 Young men. From 3 stratas of society. With 3 entirely different points of view towards life... ... Their paths cross over the Hoogly Bridge on a Thursday morning. Their lives change irreversibly.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 870 members
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  • Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Lara Dutta,  Chunky Pandey
    Director: Apoorva Lakhia
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Indian is Land of a billion people, 60 persent of which are living in over 500,000 villages spread around the country. Besides the best efforts of the Indian Rural Department about 87,000 of these villages to this date do not have electricity. 'Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost' takes place in one such village.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 43% from 245 members
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  • Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Ruby Bhatia,  Tanaaz Currim
    Director: Sooraj R. Barjatya
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Roopa (Tanaaz Currim) from the U.S., the elder married daughter of Satyaprakash (Pankaj Kapur) and Susheela (Himani Shivpuri) has a marriage proposal for her younger sister Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), that being Prem Kumar (Abishek Bachchan). She emails her dad that Prem is on his way to see Sanjana. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 117 members
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  • Zameen on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Bipasha Basu,  Kamal Chopra
    Director: Rohit Shetty
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    We live in an age of terror, an age where evil is inflicted upon innocents in unprecedented events like the Mumbai blasts, 11th Sep., Akshardham, the Parliment attack to name a few. In this milieu, unconsciously its always the innocent who are trapped and are set through the trials of our time. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 183 members
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  • Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Paresh Rawal,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Kirti Reddy
    Director: A. Muthu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Pooja spends too long on leave to attend her friend's wedding. When a colleague claims that she was late back because she had got engaged to a photographer she met there, her boss changes his mind about firing her. When she meets his son she regrets the lie her friend told, so they pretend that the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 160 members
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  • Refugee on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kareena Kapoor,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Anupam Kher
    Director: J.P. Dutta
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    REFUGEE features a young man with no name and no homeland who makes his living guiding other refugees across the Judian and Pakistani borders. Although he attempts to develop no emotional ties to his clients, it's love at first sight when he meets a young woman fleeing from Bangladesh.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 54% from 425 members
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  • Rakht on DVD
    Starring: Sanjay Dutt,  Sunil Shetty,  Dino Morea
    Director: Mahesh Manjrekar
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drishti, a young widow and mother, is gifted with the ability to see into the future through visions and tarot readings. She uses her gifts to help out the school principal whose fiancee has suddenly disappeared. However using her abilities to find the woman will soon place her in life threatening ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 473 members
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  • Kuch Naa Kaho on DVD
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai
    Director: Rohan Sippy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Raj lives in New York and is against arranged marriage. When he visits India for a family wedding he is smitten with his uncle's colleague Namrata, who has agreed to find Raj a bride. Soon however, the pair realise their love for one another...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 959 members
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  • IIFA Awards Yorkshire 2007
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The 8th IDEA IIFA Awards, hosted in Yorkshire, was the biggest celebration of Indian Cinema with spectacular performances by the biggest superstars and India's best talent receiving top honours. World-class production, high-energy entertainment and frenzied fans made the IDEA IIFA Awards a night to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4 members
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Abhishek Bachchan - watch online


  • Run to Watch Now (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Bhoomika Chawla,  Abhishek Bachchan/ Bhoomika Chawla
    Director: Jeeva
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 134 minutes
    Every day brings with it many situations. Each situation brings with it some choices. Each choice brings with it two roads. One road which you run towards; the other which you run away from. But run you must!
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 42% from 5 members
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Abhishek Bachchan facts

5 most recent films

Mission Istanbul - 2.0 stars
Sarkaar Raj - 3.0 stars
Drona - 2.0 stars
Dostana - 3.5 stars
Shootout At Lokhandwala - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dostana - 3.5 stars
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - 3.5 stars
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna - 3.5 stars
Guru - 3.5 stars
Sarkar - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Mission Istanbul - 2.0 stars
IIFA Awards Yorkshire 2007 - 3.5 stars
Drona - 2.0 stars
Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai - 2.0 stars
Naach - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Amitabh Bachchan - 8 times - show films
Aishwarya Rai - 7 times - show films
Priyanka Chopra - 5 times - show films
Bipasha Basu - 3 times - show films
Uday Chopra - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rohan Sippy - 4 times - show films
Ram Gopal Varma - 3 times - show films
Apoorva Lakhia - 3 times - show films
Mani Ratnam - 2 times - show films
Jeeva - 2 times - show films