Amitabh Bachchan has been a Bollywood film star for more than 40 years and is adored in India. Monty Munford meets a man who loves technology and social networks, but is unsure about Facebook.
With a population of more than 1.1 billion people and rising, at some time over the next decade Indian will overtakeChina as the world's most populous country.
Out of that 1.1 billion people, it's a safe bet that any Indian who can eat, pray, love and breathe has heard of, and loves, Amitabh Bachchan. This man is beyond the moniker of 'national treasure'. His face adorns a million billboards, he endorses umpteen products and for many he is revered as a type of deity.
Known regionally as The Big B, Bachchan made his name as the 'Angry Young Man' of Bollywood in the 1970s, when Indian cinema began to embrace edgier themes than its previous emphasis on romantic movies.
Since then Bachchan has changed with the times, even entering Parliament in the 1980s after being elected with one of the highest election margins in Indian electoral history. He resigned three years later, calling politics a 'cesspool'
