Bachchan family | |
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![]() From left to right: Jaya Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in 2007 | |
Current region | Mumbai, Maharashtra |
Place of origin | Babupatti, Raniganj tehsil, Pratapgarh, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) |
Members | Harivansh Rai Bachchan Teji Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Shweta Bachchan Nanda Nikhil Nanda Kunal Kapoor |
Estate(s) | Jalsa Bungalow Juhu, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
The Bachchan family is a prominent Indian family associated with and involved in the Hindi film industry and Politics of India.
Notable members of the family include actor and former politician Amitabh Bachchan, his wife, actress and Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan; his parents, poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and social activist Teji Bachchan; their daughter, author Shweta Bachchan Nanda; their son, actor Abhishek Bachchan; and Abhishek's wife, actress Aishwarya Rai. In 2007, Time listed Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai on its list of most influential Indians.[1]
The Bachchan family are Indian Awadhi Hindu Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas fluent in several Hindustani languages (Awadhi, Hindi, Urdu) as well as Persian.[2] The family also has Punjabi ethnic roots through patriarch Amitabh's mother Teji Bachchan (née Suri) from Lyallpur (in present-day Pakistan) and Bengali ethnic roots through Amitabh's wife, Jaya (née Bhaduri). The Bachchan family also is connected to the Mangalore region of South India through Amitabh's daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who hails from the Tulu speaking Bunt community.
The family has two houses, Jalsa and Pratiksha, in Mumbai and resides in Jalsa.[3]