Bofors Amitabh Bachchan

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  Election 2019: World's Biggest Actor Is PM, Should Have Voted Amitabh Bachchan: Priyanka Gandhi

  Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday included a not-so-subtle dig at mega film star Amitabh Bachchan, who was once one of her father Rajiv Gandhi's closest friends. The Congress leader made the comments in Uttar Pradesh on the last day of an acrimonious campaign for the marathon national election.

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  Amitabh Bachchan Recalls Bal Thackeray's Support During Bofors Scandal

  Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan had shared close ties with Bal Thackeray, one of the most enigmatic politicians who had millions of devoted followers and once controlled Mumbai. For him, Mr Bachchan said, Balasaheb was like family and their relation was "very intimate and personal".

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  'At This Age, I Seek Peace': Amitabh Bachchan On Offshore Account Allegations

  Actor Amitabh Bachchan has spoken at length about his name featuring in the Panama papers and Bofors scandal, explaining that he has always cooperated with the "system" but wishes to be left alone at this stage of his life.

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  Amitabh Bachchan Recalls Bofors Controversy In His Blog

  Actor Amitabh Bachchan said his existence was questioned when he and his family were accused in the Bofors case and it took them 25 painful years to emerge out of the scandal despite their innocence.

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  Amitabh Bachchan Recalls 'Tough Times' During Aaj Ka Arjun Shoot

  "The Bofors controversy, which was falsely and maliciously accusing my family and me was at its prime. We had moved courts in London. The film was under its making during those days, and much like several other projects that I was involved in, was under severe criticism," wrote Mr Bachchan

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  Why I Will Never Talk About the Gandhis: Amitabh Bachchan to NDTV

  In an exclusive interview to NDTV, actor Amitabh Bachchan said that he does not intend to talk about his infamous falling out with the Gandhis after the Bofors scandal. "This is something I need to contain with me and not make it public," he said.

• Family humiliated for years, says Big B on Bofors whistle-blower's clean chit

  The main whistle-blower in the Bofors scam has said, 25 years after the scandal shook India and Sweden, that Amitabh Bachchan's name was planted by Indian investigators in the case. In an interview to the website hoot.org, Sten Lindstrom, the former head of the Swedish policy, admits he was the "Deep Throat" who leaked more than 300 documents to ...

• Bofors scam: Amitabh, Jaya Bachchan react to whistle-blower's revelations

  Bofors scam: The Swedish whistle-blower in the Bofors case has said that Amitabh Bachchan was falsely implicated in the case and that though there is no evidence that Rajiv Gandhi had been bribed in the guns deal, the former prime minister "watched the massive cover-up" in India and Sweden and "did nothing."

• The real reason Amitabh Bachchan quit politics

  He says he quit politics as people questioned his "harmless social service".