What are some of the most significant turning points in Amitabh Bachchan's career that contributed to his enduring success?

 The major turning points of Amitabh Bachchan’s career were

1969- His debut with Saat Hindustani and his first National award

1971- His first commercial success with Anand and his first Filmfare Award

1973- Amitabh became a star after strings of flops, with Zanjeer

1975- Amitabh dethroned Rajesh Khanna as the top star with a glorious year- 2 major Blockbusters (Sholay and Deewar) and another cult classic hit (Chupke Chupke)

1977- First Filmfare of Amitabh as lead actor- Amitabh as a megastar with massive hits every year.

1982- Amitabh's tragic accident and post recovery starts doing one or two film a year.

1984- Amitabh takes a sabbatical from films to enter politics

1988- Amitabh's return to cinema and the beginning of his decline with massively hyped films that underperformed - Shahenshah, Ganga Jamuna Saraswati, Toofan and his outright disaster film Jadugar.

1990- Won National award for Best Actor for Agneepath but the film flopped- Aaj ka Arjun one of his last solo hit as lead actor (Hum still had Rajnikanth and Govinda)

1992- takes another sabbatical after Khuda Gawah- starts ABCL corporation to produce films and TV. Apart from a delayed film Insaniyat and guest appearances he doesn't appear in a lead role for years.

1997- Amitabh returns to films with Mrutyudata which is a disaster. ABCL fails badly and Amitabh is in massive debts.

2000- second innings of Amitabh Bachchan with Mohabbatein and Kaun Banega Crorepati

2005- Another National award for Amitabh for Black- also wins both Best Actor Popular and Critics award for Black at the age of 63

2009- Another National and Filmfare Award for Paa at the age of 67

2015- National award and Filmfare Critics Award for Piku

83 years old and still getting lead roles- unlike Rajnikanth does meaningful roles and one of the greatest superstars of all times

What are your top 10 turning points in the history of cricket?

 

• 1975: First Cricket World cup being played.

• 1983: The then underdogs India winning the World cup for the first time.

• 1987: First Cricket World cup being played in the subcontinent where cricket was the most popular sport. All earlier editions were played in England.

• 1991: South Africa return to the international fold after a 21 year old apartheid.

• 1992: First World cup being played in coloured clothing and white coloured ball with Pakistan emerging as champions.

• 2001: The whole cricketing world got stunned when India beat Australia after India was enforced a follow on, thus India ending Australia’s 16 test match winning streak. Thereafter, India was always considered a potential threat by all non asian teams wherever it played them.

• 2007: First T20 world cup being played in South Africa with India becoming the first T20 cricket champions.

• 2010: Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batsman to score a double hundred in One Day International match. He did it against South Africa. As of now, four other batsmen scored double hundreds in One Day Internationals.

• 2011: India becomes the first team to win a 50 over world cup on home soil. This trend was further followed by hosts Australia in 2015 and England in 2019.

• 2019: The test championship started in which top 9 teams play test matches in the form of bilateral series. The final will be played between the top two teams of the points table in July 2021 at Lord's, London.

These are the top 10 turning points to have happened in the history of cricket.