Happy Birthday, Amitabh Bachchan. 10 Yaadein Bhari Photos, Ranked

New Delhi: Happy birthday, Amitabh Bachchan! As the Bollywood ka Shahenshah celebrates his 75th birthday on the beaches of Maldives, we would like to take a moment and thank him for having delighted us with an array of throwback pieces. Be it a Throwback Thursday or Flashback Friday, fans and followers rush to Big B's social media feed to always find some blast from the past. It's not just the senior Bachchan but his actor son Abhishek is also responsible for making us nostalgic. From the sets of Big B's iconic movies like Amar Akbar Anthony and Sholay to vintage-hued memories from family photo albums, all feature on the Bachchans' Instagram. Here's a look at the 10 best posts from and/or starring Amitabh Bachchan that has made us happy, ranked in order.

We'll start with the one starring the "Bachchan bunch," comprising Shweta and Abhishek Bachchan and their cousins. This is from sometime in the mid-eighties, when Big B was hospitalised while shooting for a Manmohan Desai film and the kids had paid him a visit.
 

 

#throwbackthursday taken in the mid 80's ( 1985 if memory serves). I call it Big B and the Bachchan bunch. Dad was hospitalised with Mysthenia Gravis and my sister, cousins and I had gone to visit him. Being too young to understand what all was going on our parents always made it out to be like an outing so that we would not be disturbed by the hospital and its workings. When I used to visit my father after his accident on the sets of "Coolie" in 1982, seeing him connected to many drips and machines, he used to tell me they were kites that he had got for me. I was 6 yrs old. My father was fighting for his life and all I thought about was... why isn't he allowing me to play with these kites??? The innocence of childhood I guess.

A post shared by Abhishek Bachchan (@bachchan) on May 31, 2017 at 8:47pm PDT

This is what Amitabh Bachchan shared to commemorate 40 years of Amar Akbar Anthony. Big B co-starred with Rishi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna in the cult comedy.


 

T 2436 - 40 years of Amar Akbar Anthony and Shweta and Abhishek visit me on the set when I was doing song 'my name is Anthony Gonsalves pic.twitter.com/bNq8kBTSf7

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) May 26, 2017

Here are Big B and Dharmendra as harmless looking criminals. "Two very keen, committed, interested artists on the sets of Sholay, the jail sequence," Big B captioned.
 

 

Two very keen ,committed ,interested artists on the sets of SHOLAY ... the jail sequence

A post shared by Amitabh Bachchan (@amitabhbachchan) on Jul 15, 2017 at 10:09pm PDT

Here's three generations of the Bachchans in one single photo:
 

 

It is my late grandfather's Birthday today. Miss him dearly. Whilst growing up, on our birthdays he would write a poem for each of his grandchildren. We didn't understand that when everybody else was giving us presents why Dadaji would just write us a poem. Today I realise that those pieces of paper are greater than any present we could have ever received. The love and wisdom in those hand written letters are priceless. Love you Dadaji and I proudly carry the name that you gave me.

A post shared by Abhishek Bachchan (@bachchan) on Nov 26, 2016 at 9:58pm PST

And then, he had the best caption for Jaya Bachchan from when she was not married to Big B yet.
 

 

The wife, when she was not the wife ...

A post shared by Amitabh Bachchan (@amitabhbachchan) on Jul 3, 2017 at 10:02pm PDT

Decades later, the father-son Bachchan duo are still the same:
 

T 2545 - एक बार यूँ थे और कुछ ही क्षण में ऐसे हो गए !!! pic.twitter.com/Ba0qp5logk

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) September 12, 2017

This photograph is over 40 years old now.
 

 

#throwbackthursday the day i was brought home for the 1st time from the hospital. That's a-couple-of-days-old me in my dadima's arms.

A post shared by Abhishek Bachchan (@bachchan) on Jun 15, 2017 at 3:12am PDT

This was captioned the most DAD-way ever.
 

 

That is Abhishek a few minutes after birth .. and then before you know it he becomes a strapping 6'3" lad .. kids I tell you ..

A post shared by Amitabh Bachchan (@amitabhbachchan) on Jun 11, 2017 at 11:08pm PDT

Flashback to 1950. Amitabh Bachchan photographed in his Allahabad mansion on 17, Clive Road.
 

 

A post shared by Amitabh Bachchan (@amitabhbachchan) on Jun 12, 2017 at 12:28am PDT

Can you identify the little kid on the left as Amitabh Bachchan? Yes, it's him.
 

 

एेक दिन एैसे थे ; फिर ऐसे हो गए

A post shared by Amitabh Bachchan (@amitabhbachchan) on Sep 10, 2017 at 12:14pm PDT

Which one of the photographs did you like the best? Tell us in the comments below.