#AmitabhBachchan in first TV drama series

Bollywood’s favourite film star Amitabh Bachchan appears on Indian screens Monday in his first television drama series, in which he plays a real estate businessman with a potentially terminal illness.

After more than four decades in cinema and nearly 200 film appearances to his name, the 71-year-old widely known as “the Big B” makes his TV fiction debut with the lead role in the 20-episode show “Yudh”.

“For quite some time I wanted to get an opportunity on television in which I get to work in a serial,” Bachchan told the Press Trust of India news agency last month.