Amitabh Bachchan honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award

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Amitabh Bachchan poses with Preity Zinta during the grand finale of the 11th Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) on Thursday after he received the Lifetime Achievement award for completing 40 years in the film industry.

On receiving the award, Mr. Bachchan said, "I am really grateful to the Indian film industry for tolerating me for so many years. I remember all the wonderful people who got associated with me."



His oeuvre ranges from rib-tickling comedies to tearjerkers to subtle, nuanced performances in art-house films. It can be said without doubt that there is nothing in acting that Bachchan hasn't tried.

"I have given almost two-thirds of my life to the Indian film industry. I remember in 1968 I had appeared for a screen test whose result never came out. Then in 1969 director Khwaj Ahmad Abbas gave me a break in his film 'Saat Hindustani' and my journey started," added Bachchan.