Bachchan family tree
Harivansh Rai Bachchan's family, from Amitabh and Jaya to Abhishek, Aishwarya and Aaradhya. Through Shweta's marriage to Nikhil Nanda, Raj Kapoor's grandson, the Bachchans are part of the Kapoor tree.
- 19
- people
- 4
- generations
- 7
- marriages
- 1907–2011
- born
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Who is related to whom in the Bachchan family
How is Navya Naveli Nanda related to Amitabh Bachchan?
Amitabh Bachchan is Navya Naveli Nanda’s maternal grandfather (nana in Hindi).
How is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan related to Jaya Bachchan?
Jaya Bachchan is Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s mother-in-law (saas in Hindi).
How is Agastya Nanda related to Abhishek Bachchan?
Abhishek Bachchan is Agastya Nanda’s maternal uncle (mama in Hindi). Both descend from Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan.
How is Amitabh Bachchan related to Raj Kapoor?
Raj Kapoor is Amitabh Bachchan’s daughter’s husband’s grandfather.
How is Abhishek Bachchan related to Kareena Kapoor?
Kareena Kapoor Khan is Abhishek Bachchan’s sister’s husband’s first cousin.
How is Shweta Bachchan related to Ranbir Kapoor?
Ranbir Kapoor is Shweta Bachchan Nanda’s husband’s first cousin.
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The Bachchan family, generation by generation
Each name links to its source.
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907 – 2003): Hindi poet, author of Madhushala and Amitabh Bachchan's father. · married Shyama (? – 1936)
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan also married Teji Bachchan (1914 – 2007): Wife of Harivansh Rai Bachchan and mother of Amitabh.
- Amitabh Bachchan (b. 1942): One of Hindi cinema's best-known actors; his daughter's marriage joins the Bachchans to the Kapoors. · married Jaya Bachchan (b. 1948): Actress and Rajya Sabha member, married to Amitabh Bachchan.
- Shweta Bachchan Nanda (b. 1974): Amitabh Bachchan's daughter and Nikhil Nanda's wife, the link between the Bachchans and the Kapoors. · married Nikhil Nanda (b. 1973): Businessman, Raj Kapoor's grandson through Ritu and the husband of Shweta Bachchan.
- Agastya Nanda (b. 2000): Actor; Amitabh Bachchan's grandson and Raj Kapoor's great-grandson.
- Abhishek Bachchan (b. 1976): Actor, son of Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, married to Aishwarya Rai. · married Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (b. 1973): Actress and former Miss World, married to Abhishek Bachchan.
- Aaradhya Bachchan (b. 2011)
- Ajitabh Bachchan (b. 1947): Businessman, Amitabh Bachchan's younger brother. · married Ramola Bachchan
- Bhim Bachchan
- Naina Bachchan · married Kunal Kapoor (b. 1977): Actor born 1977 and Naina Bachchan's husband; not Shashi Kapoor's son of the same name.
- Namrata Bachchan
- Nilima Bachchan
Part of the Kapoor family tree, one tree of 133 people: open it to see how this family joins the rest.
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- Nehru–Gandhi family treeFive generations from Motilal Nehru to Rahul and Priyanka, with the Ghandys, Kauls, Hutheesings and Pandits. The Gandhi name came from Feroze, not from Mahatma Gandhi.
- British royal family treeIn 1914 the Kaiser, the Tsar and the King of England were cousins, all through Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark. Follow her children and the Danish line to today's thrones.
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- King Charles III family treeCharles III, his two marriages, William and Catherine, Harry and Meghan, and the five grandchildren. Open the tree upwards to see his parents, Elizabeth II and Philip, and the cousins they share through Queen Victoria and Christian IX of Denmark.
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- Mughal family treeFrom Timur to the last emperor, the Mughals married cousins, Persian nobles and Rajput princesses. See who Akbar's wives were and how any two Mughals are related.
- Prince Philip family treeBorn a prince of Greece and Denmark, Philip was a grandson of George I of Greece, a nephew of Lord Mountbatten and a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Follow his family from Corfu, and his sisters’ German marriages, to the Windsors.
- Queen Elizabeth II family treeFrom George VI and the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, her sister Margaret, and the family below them. Elizabeth and Philip were third cousins through Queen Victoria and second cousins once removed through Christian IX of Denmark.
- Queen Victoria family treeNine children, who married into most of Europe’s royal houses. Her grandchildren included the Kaiser, George V, the last Tsarina and queens of Romania, Greece, Norway and Spain, and her descendants still reign in Britain, Spain, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
- Romanov family treeThe last four Romanov emperors, Nicholas II’s wife Alexandra (a granddaughter of Queen Victoria) and their five children, killed in 1918. Through Alexandra and Nicholas’s Danish mother they are family to the British, German and Danish kings.
- Roosevelt family treeTwo presidents from two branches of one Dutch family, the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park Roosevelts, joined when Theodore's niece Eleanor married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin.
- Theodore Roosevelt family treeThe Oyster Bay Roosevelts: Theodore’s parents, his sisters and his brother Elliott, his two marriages and six children, and Elliott’s daughter Eleanor, who married a distant cousin.
Photo credits
The pictures on the cards are from Wikimedia Commons, shown at thumbnail size under the licence named on each file. Pictures of living people appear only for public figures (politicians, royals, and film, music and sport people with no personality-rights order or suit in India we know of). Anyone else, and anyone under 18, shows initials.
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- Sultan Jahan I of Bhopal: photo by Norah Grant, Public domain
- Gaganendranath Tagore: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Abanindranath Tagore: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Sunayani Devi: photo by Author unknown and Photograph taken before 1924, CC0
- Hamidullah Khan I of Bhopal: photo by Carl Vandyk, Public domain
- Prithviraj Kapoor: photo by FilmIndia magazine, May 1942, Public domain
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan: photo by India Post, Government of India, GODL-India
- Hari Shivdasani: photo by Film India Magazine, February 1942, Public domain
- Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Trilok Kapoor: photo by FreshPaint1999, CC0
- Abida Sultan: photo by the lost gallery, CC BY 2.0
- Sajida Sultan: photo by Unidentified photographer, Public domain
- Raj Kapoor: photo by Artem Abd, Public domain
- Geeta Bali: photo, author unknown, CC0
- Shammi Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Shahryar Khan: photo by Hasan Ahmed, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Shashi Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Vijay Kapoor: photo by User:YourUsername, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Sharmila Tagore: photo by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GODL-India
- Felicity Kendal: photo by Thomas Murphy, CC BY 3.0
- Ramesh Sippy: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Randhir Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Babita Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Mahesh Bhatt: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Rishi Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Valmik Thapar: photo by Zaidshehzad1991, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Mukesh Bhatt: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Soni Razdan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Neetu Singh: photo by NeetuSinghBigBadaBoom.jpg : Indiapuppet derivative work: Puramyun31, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kunal Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Karan Kapoor: photo by Ripalparmar, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rajiv Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sridevi: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sanjay Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sanjana Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Saif Ali Khan: photo by Prime Minister's Office, GODL-India
- Sunjay Kapur: photo by Aditya mendiratta, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kareena Kapoor Khan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Ranbir Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Kunal Khemu: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sonam Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Rhea Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Armaan Jain: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Harshvardhan Kapoor: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Sara Ali Khan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Agastya Nanda: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Ibrahim Ali Khan: photo by Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0
- Maimoona Sultan Shahbanu of Bhopal: photo by ANUJ DATT, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Saudamini Tagore: photo by Abanindranath Tagore, Public domain
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