Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his family have invested around $71 million in Singapore-based file sharing portal Ziddu.com, a company official said on Wednesday.

"I am very happy and excited that Amitabh Bachchan has reposed confidence and trust on Ziddu.com," company founder Venkata Srinivas Meenavalli said in a statement.

The portal is owned by Meridian Tech Pvt Limited which offers free cloud storage besides operating in the e-distribution and micro payment platform.

Based on Google Analytics data, the company says it has generated 1.2 billion page views with more than 300 million visitors per month from 225 countries.