From Big Screen to Little and Back Again

Bachchans streak continued until the early 90s, when he retired from films after a series of critical and financial flops. In 2000 he became the host of Kaun Banega Crorepati, Indias version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, which (as in other countries) was a phenomenal success. This led him back to the cinema, but with his white beard and dark hair he began playing age appropriate roles, often appearing as the loving patriarch. He has been immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds museum in London, and was voted Star of the Millennium on a BBC online poll in 2000.