Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and film producer known for his work in Hindi films. He made his debut in 2000, opposite Kareena Kapoor, in the J. P. Dutta-directed war drama Refugee. His portrayal of the titular unnamed refugee garnered him a nomination for Best Male Debut at the Filmfare Awards ceremony. However, the film was a box office failure, as were a series of his subsequent films, including Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai (2001), and Shararat (2002). His career prospects improved in 2004, when he played a gangster in the Mani Ratnam-directed political drama Yuva, and a police officer in Sanjay Gadhvi's action thriller Dhoom. For the former, he won his first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor, and the latter became one of the highest-grossing films of the year and his first commercial success.

In 2005, Bachchan starred in the crime comedy Bunty Aur Babli opposite Rani Mukerji, and the Ram Gopal Varma-directed thriller Sarkar. The former was the second highest-grossing film of the year, and his performance in the latter earned him a second Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. In both films he co-starred with his father, Amitabh Bachchan. That same year, he also appeared in the Bengali film Antarmahal (2005). The following year, Bachchan appeared in the Karan Johar-directed musical romantic drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), for which he received his third consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. The same year, he reunited with Dutta on the historical romance Umrao Jaan (2006), and reprised his role as a police officer in the second installment of the Dhoom series, entitled Dhoom 2 (2006). The latter was the highest grossing Bollywood film to that point. Bachchan next starred alongside Aishwarya Rai in Guru (2007), a biopic inspired by the life of the businessman Dhirubhai Ambani. His title role in the film was positively received.

In 2008, Bachchan starred in Varma's Sarkar Raj, the romantic comedy Dostana, and the superhero film Drona. The following year, Bachchan produced and appeared in Paa (2009), a comedy-drama which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. In the same year, he also starred in the Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra-directed satire Delhi-6 (2009). Bachchan then suffered a brief setback in his career as he starred in another series of films that performed poorly at the box-office, including Ratnam's drama Raavan (2010), and the action thriller Game (2011). His role in the comedy Bol Bachchan (2012), opposite Ajay Devgan, proved to be his first box-office success since Paa. He followed this with three commercially successful films: Dhoom 3 (2013), opposite Aamir Khan, the action heist comedy Happy New Year (2014), opposite Shah Rukh Khan, and the 2016 film Housefull 3. Abhishek Bachchan starred in Manmarziyaan in 2018, an Indian romantic drama directed by Anurag Kashyap.

He was seen in Red Chillies Entertainment production Bob Biswas, that went on floors and was released on 3 December 2021.

Films

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2000	Refugee	Refugee
	Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa	Kabir Srivastav
	Dhai Akshar Prem Ke	Karan Khanna
2001	Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai	Suraj Shrivastav
2002	Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya	Shiv Kapoor
	Desh	Anjan	Bengali film; Cameo
	Om Jai Jagadish	Jagadish Batra
	Shararat	Rahul Khanna
2003	Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon	Prem Kumar
	Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost	Karan Singh
	Kuch Naa Kaho	Raj Malhotra
	Zameen	ACP Jaideep "Jai" Rai
	LOC: Kargil	Captain Vikram Batra
2004	Run	Siddharth (Sidhu)
	Yuva	Lallan Singh	Won - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor (Male)
	Hum Tum	Sameer	Cameo
	Phir Milenge	Tarun Anand
	Dhoom	ACP Jai Dixit
	Rakht	Manav	Guest appearance in the song "Kya Maine Socha"
	Naach	Abhinav
2005	Bunty Aur Babli	Rakesh Trivedi (Bunty)
	Sarkar	Shankar Nagre	Won - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor (Male)
	Dus	Shashank Dheer
	Salaam Namaste	Dr. Vijay Kumar	Cameo Also Narrator
	Antarmahal	Brijbhushan	Bengali film
	Home Delivery	Himself	Guest appearance
	Ek Ajnabee	Bodyguard	Cameo
	Neal 'n' Nikki	Raj Singh	Cameo
	Bluffmaster!	Roy Kapoor
2006	Alag	Himself	Guest appearance in the song "Sabse Alag"
	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna	Rishi Talwar	Won - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor (Male)
	Lage Raho Munna Bhai	Sunny Khurana	Cameo
	Umrao Jaan	Nawab Sultan
	Dhoom 2	ACP Jai Dixit
2007	Guru	Gurukanth "Guru" Desai
	Shootout At Lokhandwala	Abhishek Mhatre	Cameo
	Jhoom Barabar Jhoom	Rakesh "Rikki" Thakkral
	Aag	Dancer	Guest appearance in the song "Mehbooba Mehbooba"
	Laaga Chunari Mein Daag	Rohan Varma
	Om Shanti Om	Himself	Guest appearance
2008	Sarkar Raj	Shankar Nagre
	Mission Istaanbul	Dancer	Guest appearance in the song "Nobody Like You"
	Drona	Aditya (Drona)
	Dostana	Sameer "Sam" Acharya
2009	Luck by Chance	Himself	Guest appearance
	Delhi-6	Roshan Mehra
	Paa	Amol Arte
2010	Raavan	Beera Munda
	Jhootha Hi Sahi	Caller 3	Voiceover
	Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey	Surya Sen
2011	Game	Neil Menon
	Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap		Playback singer for the song "Go Mera Go"
	Dum Maaro Dum	ACP Vishnu Kamath
2012	Players	Charlie Mascrenhas
	Bol Bachchan	Abbas Ali and Abhishek Bachchan (dual role)
2013	Nautanki Saala!	Himself	Guest appearance in the song "Draamebaaz"
	Dhoom 3	ACP Jai Dixit
2014	Happy New Year	Nandu Bhide and Vicky Grover (dual role)
	The Shaukeens	Himself	Cameo
2015	All Is Well	Inder Bhalla
2016	Housefull 3	Bhaskar "Bunty" Mittal
2018	Manmarziyaan	Rajbir "Robbie" Bhatia
	Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle	Bagheera	Hindi dub; Voice
2020	Ludo	Batukeshwar "Bittu" Tiwari
2021	The Big Bull	Harshad Mehta
	Bob Biswas	Bob Biswas
2022	Dasvi	Ganga Ram Chaudhary
2023	Bholaa	Chomu Singh	Cameo
	Ghoomer	Padam "Paddy" Singh Sodhi
2024	Be Happy †	TBA	Completed
	Shoojit Sircar's untitled next †	TBA	Filming

Production credits

Year	Name	Notes
2009	Paa
2011	Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap
2015	Shamitabh
2023	Ghoomer

Television

Title	Year	Role	Ref.
National Bingo Night	2010	Himself
Side Hero	2018
Breathe: Into the Shadows	2020–2022	Dr. Avinash Sabharwal/J
Sons of the Soil: Jaipur Pink Panthers	2020	Himself

Music video

Title	Year	Composer	Director	Role	Notes	Ref.
"Spirit of Chennai"	2016	C. Girinandh	Vikram	Himself	Non-album single

Discography

• 2005: "Right Here Right Now : Bluffmaster!" (Sunidhi Chauhan feat. Abhishek Bachchan)
• 2015: "Until the Sun Comes Up" (Raghav feat. Abhishek Bachchan & Nelly)

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Abhishek Bachchan