Amitabh Bachchan, who started his career with the film 'Saat Hindustani' in 1969, is called the 'Superstar of the Century'. Amitabh Bachchan, who has entertained the audience on the big screen for the last six decades, is still active in films even at the age of 82. He has done more than 200 films in his career. Apart from Hindi, Big B has acted in Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and English language films.

After doing consecutive two hero films, his fortunes changed in the year 1973, when his film 'Zanjeer' was released. In this film, Big B impressed the audience a lot with his action avatar. This was the film of his career after which he never looked back. However, despite the immense love of the audience and the crowds in the theatres to watch his films and being at the peak of his stardom, there came a time in his life when magazines and big publications banned him for political reasons. Why did the media show so much indifference towards Big B, read in today's Throw-Back Thursday story: 

Why did they refuse to print Big B's name at the peak of his career? 

It is believed that Amitabh Bachchan got a break in the industry due to his family's good relations with politicians. Film critic and writer Bharti Pradhan, while talking to news agency ANI, said that after the Emergency ended, Amitabh Bachchan became the target of media censorship.

Pradhan further said that many publications of that time had claimed that Amitabh Bachchan had supported the government's censorship on media during the Emergency imposed in 1975. He was accused of making cuts in the articles published at that time. Due to this, he was boycotted by many well-known publications. 

He did not write names with co-stars like Hema Malini

The film critic further said that the publications felt that Amitabh Bachchan was a part of the machinery of the famous party of that time, so all the reports stopped printing his name. Big B was so serious about the boycott that if his name ever appeared in the credits along with Hema Malini or any co-star, he would write the actress's name and put a comma (,) in front of it, but would not write Amitabh Bachchan's name.

Seeing this behaviour of the media, even when Amitabh Bachchan stood with the cast, he would stand on the side because he knew that he would be cropped. 

These films changed Big B's fortunes 

After doing films like 'Zanjeer' and Deewar, Amitabh Bachchan got the tag of 'Angry Young Man' in the industry. He gave many memorable films to Hindi cinema like Namak Haram, Saudagar, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Shahenshah, Dost, Chup Chupke, Sholay, Hera Pheri, Amar Akbar Anthony, Don, Kala Patthar.