Amitabh Bachchan Beautiful Facts

Amitabh Bachchan  Beautiful Facts

Amitabh Bachchan himself once said, "Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering."

Though he mouthed the words himself, his very success contradicts the very notion.Amitabh Bachchan may be growing old but he has shown no signs of slowing down and has indeed been the perfect example of 'aging gracefully'. In an era starkly different from his time, the seventies, Bachchan still holds a firm place in the industry and commands a sense of power and respect that is unmatched till date.

1. Amitabh Bachchan is ambidextrous hence, can write with both hands equally well.

2. His father Harivansh Rai Bachchan wanted to name him Inquilab which means 'revolution' but later named him Amitabh which means 'brilliance unlimited'.

3. Amitabh Bachchan wanted to become an engineer and had even contemplated joining the Indian Air Force at one point of his life.

4. During his struggling days, Amitabh had spent a few nights on a bench at Marine Drive, Mumbai.

5. During the shooting of the movie 'Khuda Gawah' opposite Sridevi, the, then, President of Afghanistan provided Amitabh with half of his country's air force for protection. The movie was one of the most watched Indian films in the history of Afghanistan.

6. Amitabh Bachchan has a sharp memory. He never forgets the birthdays or special occassions of his close ones and makes it a point to wish them each year.

7. For Amitabh Bachchan, the most beautiful actress in the film industry is Waheeda Rahman.

8. He was the first Asian actor to have a wax model displayed at Madame Tussaud's in London.

9. Amitabh first met his future wife, Jaya Bhaduri at the FIlm and Television Institute of India, Pune and later on the sets of 'Guddi'.

10. He was voted 'Star of the Millenium' by BBC Online above legends like Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin and Marlon Brando.

11. He is a vegetarian. Yes, he is. In fact, he has been named the hottest vegetarian celebrity three times in the past by PETA.

12. Amitabh Bachchan worked free of cost for his friend Shashi Kapoor's debut directorial venture Ajooba(1991). Even his Hollywood debut The Great Gatsby (2013) was done for free. In a PTI interview he was quoted saying, "Baz Luhrmann (director) called me and said he has a small role for me, which he felt was not worthy for me. He asked if I would do it and I readily agreed. I did it as a gesture...I have not charged anything".

Bio Details

Name: Amitabh Harivansh Bachchan

Nick Name: Big B, Munna and Amit

DOB: 10^th October 1942

Birth Place: Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Origin: Indian

Country: India

Height: 6 ft. 3 inch. or 188 cm

Weight: 80 Kg or 176 Lbs

Eye: Black

Hair: Black

Measurements:

 Shoe Size: 9

Profession: Singer, Producer, Actor and Television Presenter

Parent’s Name: His father name was ‘Harivansh Rai Bachchan’ and mother name was ‘Teji Bachchan’

Sibling: He has a younger brother ‘Ajitabh’

Status: Married

Spouse Name: Jaya Bhaduri presently known as Jaya Bachchan

Married Year: 1973

Children: He has a son ‘Abhishek Bachchan’ who is also an actor and a daughter ‘Shweta Nanda’

Religion: Hindu

Zodiac: Libra

Hobbies: Music and blogging

Language Known: English and Hindi

Favorite Food: Indian Vegetarian food

OKAY

What is OK ?      HISTORY BEHIND "OK"

It was 175 years ago this Sunday that two little letters were first linked together in a simple abbreviation—OK. Thanks in part to its adoption in the 1840 presidential campaign, what began as a lame joke in a Boston newspaper morphed into one of the most ubiquitous expressions in the English language

Bleary-eyed readers scanning page two of the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, may have barely noticed the linguistic oddity buried in the blizzard of ink in the second column. At the end of a short, throwaway item taking sarcastic jabs at a Providence newspaper stood the abbreviation “o.k.” next to the words “all correct.” Much like the modern-day world filled with text-friendly shortcuts such as LOL and OMG, an abbreviation craze swept nineteenth-century America, although with a twist. In an attempt at humor, young, educated elites deliberately misspelled words and abbreviated them for slang. For example, “KG” stood for “know go,” the incorrect spelling of “no go.” The joke is lost on us today, but it was LOL funny in the 1800s.

So when “o.k.” appeared in print, it was intended to be the shortening of “oll korrect,” the humorous misspelling of “all correct.” According to Allan Metcalf, author of OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word, Boston Morning Post editor Charles Gordon Greene, who often wrote witticisms and took shots at other broadsheets in print, was likely the author of the attack on the Providence newspaper and thus the man who gave birth to OK.

OK reappeared in another Boston Morning Post article three days later, and it very slowly seeped into the American vernacular during 1839. By the end of the year, it had showed up in the Boston Evening Transcript, New York Evening Tattler and the Philadelphia Gazette. The spotlight of the following year’s presidential campaign, however, set OK on the path to linguistic stardom.

In 1840, incumbent Martin Van Buren faced a reelection campaign against William Henry Harrison, the war hero popularized by the slogans “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” and “Log Cabin and Hard Cider.” Van Buren’s supporters came up with their own campaign rallying cry—“O.K.” Van Buren was born and bred in the upstate New York town of Kinderhook, and he developed the nickname “Old Kinderhook.” The Democratic president’s supporters began to form “O.K. Clubs” around the country. As Metcalf writes, “OK now could have a double meaning: Old Kinderhook was all correct.”

Harrison’s opponents also began to adopt OK, but used it in a much different manner. They used the expression to cudgel Van Buren’s mentor, Andrew Jackson. The editor of the New York Morning Herald wrote that Jackson was such a terrible speller that he believed “ole kurrek” was the proper spelling of “all correct” and signed “O.K.” on his presidential papers to indicate his approval. The myth spread far and wide.

Ultimately, the American voters didn’t believe that Van Buren was OK. Harrison won the 1840 election, but so did OK. The expression started to appear in everyday speech, and in 1864 it showed up in the Slang Dictionary of Vulgar Words. It popped up periodically in popular culture as well. The OK Corral, Livery and Feed Stable in Tombstone, Arizona, became world-famous in 1881 after the legendary gunfight that included Doc Holliday and the three Earp brothers. In the 1943 musical “Oklahoma!,” Rogers and Hammerstein declared that the state was “O.K.,” and the 1967 Thomas Harris book “I’m OK, You’re OK” was one of the most popular self-help guides ever written.

While OK became part of the popular lexicon, its origins were disputed for more than a century. Some linguists pointed to Van Buren and Jackson. Others thought it was based on the manufacturer of a popular army biscuit, Orrin Kendall, or a Choctaw chief named Old Keokuk. President Woodrow Wilson thought it evolved from a Choctaw word that he spelled “okeh.” It wasn’t until American linguist Allen Walker Read, a Columbia University English professor, uncovered OK’s true origins in the 1960s, however, that it could be traced back to a newspaper editor’s off-hand quip in 1839.

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