Bollywood’s famous Bachchan family will lead a bevy of film stars in a glittering stage show that will travel around the world to promote Hindi-language films.

Legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, his star son Abhishek and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai, a former Miss World, will be the high point of the year-long show that begins Friday.

Stage shows — in which top Bollywood actors dance to popular film songs — are a big draw for Indians living overseas and a major money spinner for the stars.

“It is almost a decade since I went to do any stage show on this scale. In our first leg of our tour we are going to cover 11 cities in Europe, US, and Canada,” Amitabh Bachchan said in Mumbai late Friday.

The actors will dance to 70 Bollywood melodies and will be accompanied by 40 professional dancers on stage.

Abhishek Bachchan is playing the perfect doting husband to wife Aishwarya Rai. When she fell ill after rigorous rehearsals for their much talked about ‘Unforgettable’ world tour that kicks off in Toronto Friday, Abhishek learnt her steps too. “We have been rehearsing for the tour non-stop for nearly a month now. Shiamak (Davar) has been working us around so hard to get our dance steps right that my wife Aishwarya fell sick with exhaustion. For three days, she could not move out of the house,” said Abhishek.

“That put an additional burden on me as I had to do her steps also, not only at the rehearsal hall but at home too in order to teach her the dance steps Shiamak had given her for the songs she would be dancing to during the tour,” he told reporters.

Abhishek says now he is ready to pitch in for both his father, Amitabh Bachchan, and wife.

The Bachchans will set the stage on fire during their much awaited “Unforgettable Tour” with their breathaking performance and unlimited masti  unseen hitherto on the global stage. The Bachchan family is getting ready to kickstart the highly popularised The Unforgettable Tour which will begin on 18 July at Toronto.

The USP of this tour? Well, the emperoro of Bollywood himself, Amitabh Bachchan and the most beautiful woman on the planet, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The Bachchans have approached several Bollywood stars to join on board. The family has already started with the rehearsals and putting their best foot forward to make this tour truly unforgettable for their fans. Aishwarya told newsmen here last night at a press conference about the tour organised and directed by event managers Wizcraft, “It is our way of saying thanks to the global viewers for all the support they had extended to the Indian cine industry”.