Amitabh Bachchan-Rekha

Big B survived accidents, suffered in politics, lost his friends, was almost bankrupt, and then returned with the vengeance like the angry young man who he once portrayed on screen. Only, in real life, he was anything but young.

Today, he is more incisive with the media, bites them down with sharp tweets and blogs, and over the past years, has built a cloak of detached respectability that few would want to ruffle.