Regarded as the most
successful actor from the Hindi Film Industry, Amitabh Bachchan has been given
the “Global Diversity Award 2013” through the British Parliament. He was given
the honour in UK through the John Bercow , Speaker of the House of Commons , at
its State Room. The ceremony seemed to be attended by British actor Hugh Grants
and chaired by Keith Vaz, MP and Chairman, Home Affairs Select Committee.
- The citation towards the award notes his four decade long and unparalleled career in Hindi cinema, by which he worked in about 180 films, and lauds him as “one of the finest and most influential actors within the history of Indian cinema."
- The award also recognizes his charity works specially his role in Diabetes awareness campaign . He's the “Global patron for the diabetes charity “Silver Star” and was given a “Mobile Diabetes Unit” in 2012 for Mumbai through the then UK PM Gordon Brown with respect to Silver Star (named 'Amitabh' in the honour"). The unit helps in early detection of diabetes, that is key to manage this disease.
- another mobile unit is potential started in Delhi (named after his father Harivansh rai Bachchan - a poet and first Indian to obtain a Doctorate in English Language in the Cambridge) and Kerala.
- Padma Shri 1984 and Padma Bhushan 2001
- Knight from the Legion of Honour (in 2007 by French government) - France's highest civilian honour conferred
- Honorary Citizenship from the French town of Deauville
- named the 'Greatest Star of stage or screen from the Millennium' In July 1999, with a BBC online poll.
- wax statue set up in London's Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (2000) ; Ny, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Washington, DC.
- He was the lone Bollywood personality invited to hold 2012 Olympic torch during the last leg of their relay in London's Southwalk.
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