Three generations of a high-profile Bollywood family have tested positive for Covid-19, as per officials. Beloved veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abishek Bachchan have tested positive for Covid and have been taken to the hospital.
On Sunday, the results showed the actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a former Miss World. And her daughter Aaradhya, eight, got infected with coronavirus. Her husband Abhishek Bacchan and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan, both actors are also infected. They were taken to hospital on Saturday with the virus. Both actors have mild symptoms.
Abhishek tweeted on Sunday they would stay in hospital “till doctors decide otherwise”. Aishwarya Bachchan, 46, is one of Bollywood’s most famous faces in India and abroad. Featuring in several Bollywood and Hollywood films. She won the Miss World pageant in 1994. And, she is Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS. She was the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. Aishwarya and her daughter found to be asymptomatic. Her husband Abhishek Bachchan tweeted they would be self-isolating at home.
On Saturday, Amitabh Bachchan tweeted his millions of followers he tested covid +ve. “I have tested Covid-19 positive, and shifted to the hospital. And, hospital informing authorities, family and staff have undergone tests. Results awaited,” he wrote. Amitabh Bachchan, 77, involved in 200 films over five decades. He and Abhishek, 44, taken to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday. Abhishek said, they both were having mild symptoms.
Amitabh Bachchan is currently in the isolation unit of the hospital, ANI reported. He advised anyone who had been close to him in the past 10 days to get tested. Mumbai municipal officials have put up banners outside the actor’s house in the city. Classifying the area as a “containment zone”.
Indian megastars don’t come huge than the Bachchans, a family considered acting royalty. At the helm of the dynasty is Amitabh Bachchan, one of the most famous people on this planet. With billions of his fans spanning continents. Over five decades, the 77-year-old actor starred in hundreds of Bollywood films. Fronted prime time television shows and admired.
Even worshipped by all his die-hard followers. The news that he has coronavirus is massive news in India and beyond. The nation stood still in 1982 as Amitabh Bachchan spent months in hospital. After, one of his film stunts went wrong.
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