Jaya Bachchan (Bengali: জয়া ভাদুড়ী বচ্চন, Hindi: जया बच्चन; born Jaya Bhaduri on 9 April 1948) is an Indian actress and politician. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Bachchan is married to Amitabh Bachchan, and her son Abhishek Bachchan is also an actor.After appearing as a child actor in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar (1963), she made her first screen role as an adult in Guddi (1971) directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and performed in films including Jawani Diwani (1972), Koshish, Anamika, Piya Ka Ghar and Bawarchi. She appeared alongside her husband Amitabh Bachchan in films such as Zanjeer (1973), Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke(1975), Mili (1975) and Sholay (1975). She restricted her film work in the coming years and after Silsila in 1981, took a sabbatical for films, only to return with Govind Nihlani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998).
During her career, she won three Filmfare Best Actress Awards, three Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Awards, which makes her the overall most-awarded performer in the female acting categories, along with Nutan. She was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Early life
Bachchan was born in a Bengali family to Indira and Taroon Kumar Bhaduri, writer, journalist and stage artist in Jabalpur. She studied in St. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal. She was awarded the Best All-India N.C.C. Cadet Award, during the Republic Day celebrations in 1966. She later studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.
Career
She started her career with a supporting role in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film, Mahanagar at the age of 15, with Anil Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee. Prior to this, she had appeared in two Bengali film, one a 13-minute short film, Suman, and another a Bengali comedy Dhanni Meye (1971), as Uttam Kumar's sister-in law.
Inspired by her experience with Ray, she decided to join Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune to learn acting, and passed out with the gold medal, and she was also picked out to play the eponymous role of Guddi in the 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee film, Guddi in which she played a schoolgirl obsessed with film star Dharmendra. Guddi was a success, and she moved to Bombay and soon picked other roles, however her role of a 14 year-old school girl, aided by her petite looks, created the girl-next-door image for her, which stayed with her through the rest of her career. Though she tried to break out of the mould with glamourous roles as in Jawani Diwani (1972) and a negative character of the heroine faking amnesia, in Anamika (1973), it was the Guddi girl, epitomizing middle-class sensibility, that she remained in most of her roles as a heroine, which she played amiably in films of "middle-cinema" directors like Gulzar, Basu Chatterjee and indeed Hrishikesh Mukherjee, including, Uphaar (1971), Piya Ka Ghar (1972), Parichay (1972), Koshish (1972) and Bawarchi (1972), with marked sensitivity. By now, she was a popular star.
She first acted with her future husband Amitabh Bachchan in the film, Bansi Birju (1972), followed by B.R. Ishara's Ek Nazar also in the same year. Amitabh had undergone a string of flops, and when most lead heroines refused to work him, in Salim-Javed scripted, Zanjeer (1973), she stepped into the film. The film turned out to be blockbuster and gave rise to Amitabh Bachchan's angry-young-man image. This was closely followed by their pairing in films like Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Her daughter Shweta was born while Jaya and Amitabh were working on Sholay. Following this she retired from films and focused on raising her children. Her last film as a lead actress was Silsila (1981), opposite her husband. During the late 1980s she wrote the story for the film Shahenshah which starred her husband in the lead.
After a gap of film appearances for 18 years, she returned to acting with Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998), a film about the Naxalite movement. In 2000 she starred in Fiza for which she received the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her work. She also starred in Karan Johar's family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) with her husband. She then starred in Karan Johar's next film, Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003). She played the role of Preity Zinta's mother, Jennifer, for which she again received a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award.
In 2007 Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, she appeared with son Abhishek Bachchan.
As of January 2011, she is set to appear in a Bangladeshi film titled Meherjaan starring with Victor Banerjee and Humayun Faridi. The film is based on a Bangaladesh-Pakistan love story in the backdrop of 1971 Bangladesh atrocities. Its a story of Meherjaan (played by Jaya Bachchan), a Bangladeshi girl who falls in love with a young Pakistani army officer who refuses to join the war and saves her from being raped by other Pakistani troops who do not however spare her cousin Neela and kill her father.
Political career
Bachchan was elected as a Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament, representing Rajya Sabha, and in February 2010 she stated her intent to complete her term.
Personal life
On 3 June 1973, she married actor Amitabh Bachchan. The couple have two children: Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan, who is also an actor. Shweta is married to industrialist Nikhil Nanda in Delhi, and has two children, Navya Naveli and Agastya Nanda , while Abhishek Bachchan is married to Aishwarya Rai, also an actor.
Awards and recognition
Filmfare Awards
Winner
- 1974 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Abhimaan
- 1975 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Kora Kagaz
- 1980 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Nauker
- 1998 - Filmfare Special Performance Award for her contribution to the film industry.
- 2001 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Fiza
- 2002 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
- 2004 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Kal Ho Na Ho
- 2007 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominated
- 1972 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Guddi
- 1972 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Uphaar
- 1974 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Koshish
- 1976 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Mili
- 1982 - Filmfare Best Actress Award for Silsila
International Indian Film Academy Awards
Winner
- 2001 - IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Fiza
- 2002 - IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
- 2004 - IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Kal Ho Na Ho
Other film awards
Winner
- 1972 - Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Special Award (Hindi film) for Guddi
- 1999 - Anandalok Awards: Special Editor Award
- 2001 - Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Best Actress in Supporting Role for Fiza
- 2001 - Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female for Fiza
- 2002 - Best Actress in a supporting role for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham at the Sansui Viewers Choice Awards
Honours and recognitions
- In 1992, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India.
- In 1998, she was honoured with the Omega Award for Excellence: Lifetime Achievement.
- She is a recipient of the "Yash Bharati Samman", UP state's highest award from the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
- 2004, Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sansui Awards.
- 2010, Lifetime Achievement Award at the "Tongues on Fire" film festival in London
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Mahanagar | Bani | Bengali film |
| 1971 | Guddi | Kusum/Guddi | Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award |
| Dhanni Meye | Monasha | Bengali film | |
| Uphaar | Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award | ||
| 1972 | Jawani Diwani | Neeta Thakur | |
| Bawarchi | Krishna Sharma | ||
| Parichay | Rama | ||
| Bansi Birju | Bansi | ||
| Piya Ka Ghar | Malti | ||
| Annadata | |||
| Ek Nazar | Shabnam | ||
| Samadhi | |||
| Koshish | Aarti Mathur | Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award | |
| Shor | Raat Ki Rani/Rani | ||
| Jai Jawan Jai Makan | |||
| 1973 | Gaai Aur Gori | Neeta Thakur | |
| Anamika | Anamika/Kanchan/Archana | ||
| Phagun | Krishna Sharma | ||
| Zanjeer | Mala | ||
| Abhimaan | Uma Kumar | Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award | |
| 1974 | Aahat | ||
| Dil Diwana | |||
| Kora Kagaz | Archana Gupta | Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award | |
| Naya Din Nai Raat | |||
| Doosri Sita | |||
| 1975 | Mili | Mili Khanna | Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award |
| Chupke Chupke | Vasudha Kumar | ||
| Sholay | Radha | ||
| 1977 | Abhi To Jee Lein | Jaya | |
| 1978 | Ek Baap Chhe Bete | ||
| 1979 | Nauker | Geeta | Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award |
| 1981 | Silsila | Shobha Malhotra | Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award |
| 1998 | Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa | Sujata Chatterji | |
| 2000 | Fiza | Mother Nishatbi | Winner, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award |
| 2001 | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... | Nandini Raichand | Winner, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award |
| 2002 | Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe | Mansi Devi | |
| 2003 | Kal Ho Naa Ho | Jennifer Kapur | Winner, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award |
| 2007 | Laaga Chunari Mein Daag | Sabitri Sahay | |
| 2008 | Lovesongs | ||
| Drona | Queen Jayanti | ||
| 2010 | Aap Ke Liye Hum | ||
| 2011 | Meherjaan | Meher | Bengali film |
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