On 9th April 1948 Jabalpur-based, Bengali-speaking Indira and Tarun Kumar Bhaduri were blessed with a child they named Jaya, and enrolled in the St. Joseph's Convent School in Bhopal.
Jaya Bachchan, an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, started her career with a supporting role in Satyajit Ray's Bengali film, Mahanagar at the age of 15, with Anil Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee. Prior to this, she had appeared in two Bengali films: a 13-minute short film, Suman, and a Bengali comedy Dhanni Meye (1971), as Uttam Kumar's sister-in-law.
Inspired by her experience with Ray, she decided to join Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune to learn acting, and passed out with the gold medal, and she was also picked out to play the eponymous role of Guddi in the 1971 Hrishikesh Mukherjee's film, Guddi in which she played a schoolgirl obsessed with film star Dharmendra. Guddi was a success, and she moved to Mumbai and soon picked other roles, however her role of a 14-year-old school girl, aided by her petite looks, created the girl-next-door image for her, which she was often associated with through the rest of her career. Though she tried to break out of the mould with glamorous roles as in Jawani Diwani (1972) and a negative character of the heroine faking amnesia, in Anamika (1973), she was mostly recognised for roles of this sort, which were credited with epitomising middle-class sensibility and which she played amiably in films of "middle-cinema" directors like Gulzar, Basu Chatterjee and indeed Hrishikesh Mukherjee. These films include Uphaar (1971), Piya Ka Ghar (1972), Parichay (1972), Koshish (1972) and Bawarchi (1972), with marked sensitivity. By now, she was a popular star.
In Gulzar's Koshish (1973), Bhaduri and Sanjeev Kumar played a deaf couple who struggle through their difficulties as handicapped people. She described the film as "a learning experience" which motivated to do social work in future.
She first acted with her future husband Amitabh Bachchan in the film, Bansi Birju (1972), followed by B.R. Ishara's Ek Nazar also in the same year. Amitabh had undergone a string of flops, and when most lead heroines refused to work him, in Salim-Javed scripted, Zanjeer (1973), she stepped into the film. The film turned out to be a hit and gave rise to Amitabh Bachchan's angry-young-man image. This was closely followed by their pairing in films like Abhimaan (1973), Chupke Chupke (1975) and Sholay (1975).
Her daughter Shweta was born while Jaya and Amitabh were working on Sholay. Following this she retired from films and focused on raising her children. Her last film as a lead actress was Silsila (1981), opposite her husband. During the late 1980s, she wrote the story for the film Shahenshah (1988) which starred her husband in the lead.
After a gap in film appearances of 18 years, she returned to acting with Govind Nihalani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998), a film about the Naxalite movement. In 2000 she starred in Fiza for which she received the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her work. She also starred in Karan Johar's family drama Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) with her husband. She then starred in Karan Johar's next film, Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) playing the role of Preity Zinta's mother, Jennifer, for which she again received a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. She appeared with her son Abhishek in the films Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007) and Drona (2008).
Awards and recognition
Civilian Award
1992 – Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India.
Filmfare Awards
Winner
1974 – Filmfare Special Award for Uphaar
1974 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Abhimaan
1975 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Kora Kagaz
1980 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Nauker
1998 – Filmfare Special Award for Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
2001 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Fiza
2002 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2004 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Kal Ho Na Ho
2007 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Nominated
1972 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Guddi
1972 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Uphaar
1974 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Koshish
1976 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Mili
1982 – Filmfare Best Actress Award for Silsila
International Indian Film Academy Awards Winner
2001 – IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Fiza
2002 – IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2004 – IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award for Kal Ho Na Ho
Other film awards
Winner
1972 – Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Special Award (Hindi film) for Guddi
1999 – Anandalok Awards: Special Editor Award
2001 – Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Best Actress in Supporting Role for Fiza
2001 – Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female for Fiza
2002 – Best Actress in a supporting role for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham at the Sansui Viewers Choice Awards
Honours and recognitions
In 1998, she was honoured with the Omega Award for Excellence: Lifetime Achievement.
2000, Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image, an award for her "abiding contribution to Cinema".
2004, Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sansui Awards.
2010, Lifetime Achievement Award at the "Tongues on Fire" film festival in London.
2012, Lifetime Achievement Award at Jaipur International Film Festival (JIFF).
2013, Master Deenanath Mangeshkar (Vishesh Puraskar) Award for her dedicated services to Indian theatre and cinema.
She is a recipient of the Yash Bharti Award, UP state's highest award from the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaya_Bachchan
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