Faisalabad, Dec 2 : A Pakistani man Jaffar Hussain, hailing from Faisalabad, has claimed that Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan is his younger brother, Geo News reported.
Jaffar Hussain, resident of Nawanpind, Faisalabad says Amitabh had run away to Karachi with one Amir Badshah, and later to Mumbai at the age of 14, adding that his Islamic name was Subh Sadiq.
He said that Amitabh Bachchan was keen to work in movies since childhood. He said his father Abdul Haq was a goldsmith, who had registered a case against Amir Badshah in 1963.
Jaffar Hussain also stated that one of their sisters namely Sardaran Bibi (late) had great affection for Amitabh.
The Geo News report did not mention about any move for providing psychiatric help to Jaffar Hussain.
Amitabh Bachchan is the eldest son of renowned Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Teji Bachchan, both close friends of Nehru family. Teji Bachchan was a Sikh Punjabi from Faisalabad (now in Pakistan).
Amitabh was born on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad and it a well-documented fact corroborated by numerous evidences. Amitabh studied in Gyana Prabodhini and Boys High School in Allahabad, and after his parents shifted to Delhi, we joined Sherwood College, Nainital and later Kirorimal College of Delhi University. He later went to work in Bird and Co in Kolkata, before moving on to work in Bollywood films.
