The Bachchan family is a prominent Indian family associated with and involved in the Hindi film industry and politics.
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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 |
Notable members of the family include actor and former politician Amitabh Bachchan and 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 came from an Indian Awadhi Hindu background and are Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas that were fluent in several Hindustani dialects (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 (present-day Pakistan) and Bengali ethnic roots through Amitabh's wife, Jaya Bachchan (née Bhaduri). Bachchan family also is connected to roots in Mangalore region of South India through Amitabh's daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who hails from Tulu speaking Bunt community.
The family has two famous houses, Jalsa and Pratiksha, in Mumbai. The family resides in Jalsa Bungalow.[3]