MUMBAI: Hindi film icon Amitabh Bachchan's mother Teji Bachchan passed away today. She was 93.

She had been ailing since the past four years and was being treated at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai's western suburb Bandra.

Teji Bachchan, who was the wife of the distinguished Hindi poet the late Harivansah Rai Bachchan, was born a Sikh and had married Harivansh Rai after the demise of his first wife. Teji Bachchan was a stage artiste.