Amitabh Bachchan named ‘greatest Bollywood star’ in UK poll

Mumbai, July 30 (TruthDive): Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchanhas
been named as the greatest Bollywood star in a poll conducted in UK.
He emerged the topper in the survey among 100 Greatest Bollywood
Stars.
The survey was done by aBritish Asian weekly newspaper 'Eastern Eye'.
The got the results by compiling the audience votes through social
networking sites, box-office figures, cinematic power and critical
praise. While Bachchan topped the poll chart, he was followed by
yesteryear's acting legend Dilip Kumar, while ShahrukhKhan bagged the
third place.
Actress Madhuri Dixit was the female topper and fourth in the list.
The others who featured amongtop 10 are Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Dev Anand,
Waheeda Rehman, Rajesh Khanna and Sridevi.
Madhuri stated that she was proud to be a part of the greatest
Bollywood star. She was also proud tobe a part of the whole movement
where cinema was getting better and where they were trying to do
something different. Theactress was excited to be highly placed and
she added that it also comes with a great sense of responsibility on
her shoulders where she had to do better every time when she was doing
something.
Other stars who were in the list include Salman Khan(11), Aamir Khan
(14), Dharmendra(15), Hema Malini (18), Madhubala (24),Kajol (30),
Hrithik Roshan (32), Rani Mukerji (38), Kareena Kapoor (43), Mumtaz
(50), Saif Ali Khan (59), Priyanka Chopra (86) and Katrina Kaif (93).
The career span of Amitabhin film industry runs to more than four
decades. The megastar has given blockbusters like 'Sholay' and
'Deewar'. Apart from being an actor, Amitabh Bachchan is a playback
singer, television presenter and film producer. He has hosted popular
TV game show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati.'
Big B was the first Bollywood star to be honoured with a statue at
Madame Tussauds and he also had recently represented India as the
Olympic torch-bearer at theLondon 2012 Games.