Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan's tryst with Kolkata began when he joined Bird & Co. His father, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, was the English teacher of Pandit Vijay Kichlu when the latter was a student of Allahabad University. When he first came to Kolkata, young Bachchan first stayed with Kichlu for a few days at his flat in National Towers on 13 Loudon Street. Then, Kichlu organised a paying guest accommodation in the same apartment just a floor below his flat for Bachchan. That flat was owned by Kichlu's friend. Bachchan stayed there for some one-and-a-half years.