Bachchans worth Rs493cr, Jaya Bachchan discloses to Rajya Sabha

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Amitabh Bachchan and his wife Jaya Bachchan are together worth Rs493.85 crores. Disclosures in the affidavit Jaya Bachchan filed on Saturday with her Rajya Sabha nomination papers shows Bachchan has properties and investments worth Rs402.21 crores, while Bachchan has properties and investments totalling Rs91.64 crores.

Bachchan has gold jewellery, silver, silver articles and silver bars worth Rs13.34 crores, while her husband has gold and silver worth Rs26.23 crores.

Bachchan owns two cars, a Qualis and a Lexus; while her husband owns nine vehicles, including a tractor. His other vehicles include a Qualis, Innova, Mercedes 350, Mahindra Scorpio, Rolls Royce, Mercedes 350L, Mahindra Bolero and a Porsche Cayman.

The couple own paintings worth Rs4 crore.

According to the disclosures, Jaya Bachchan declared she has agriculture land in Hujur, Bhopal (5 acres) and in Kakori in Lucknow (1.2270 hectares) while her husband, Amitabh Bachchan, has agriculture land on his name at Dalulatpur village in Barabanki (0.575 hectare) and in Kakori, Lucknow (2.403 hectares). The total cost of the land in Kakori, Lucknow is Rs4.35 crores. They also have non-agriculture land in Film City, Noida and at Metaal, Ahmedabad and in Mumbai worth over Rs25.75 crores.

Bachchan owns a commercial building in Juhu, Mumbai, comprising six apartments since 2004 and now worth over Rs20 crores.

The affidavit of Bachchan also includes a list of around 66 individuals and companies, who have been given advances by the couple. Amitabh has given a loan of Rs29.28 crores to his wife Jaya and Rs1.01 crore to his married daughter Shweta. Jaya has also given an advance of Rs4.72 lakhs to Shweta.

The couple has also shown liabilities worth over Rs152.19 crores in which Rs104.48 crores is of Bachchan and remaining Rs47.71 crores of Bachchan.

In their income-tax return filed for the financial year 2010-11, while Bachchan has showed her income to be Rs14.52 lakhs, the income of Bachchan was shown to be Rs72.50 crores.

Bachchan has Rs94,246 cash in hand while deposit in bank accounts/FDR etc. is Rs3.97 crores. Investment in bonds, debentures is Rs4.34 crores.

In 2004, Bachchan had shown her assets to the tune of Rs22 crores which increased to Rs37 crores in 2006.