Fans celebrate Amitabh Bachchan's re-birth day on August 2 after the 'Coolie' accident, the legendary actor expresses gratitude
suffered a huge accident on the sets of 'Coolie' which put his life into danger. The entire country was worried about his health. Infact, he was declared clinically dead but came back to life.
Bachchan still continues to woo his fans with his onscreen presence, dedication like none other and unmatched aura. August 2, 1982 is considered his rebirth day as the actor got his life back today. Thus, fans across social media celebrated today as his second birthday.
Some fans donated blood to celebrate this day. A user said, "#AmitabhBachchanExtendedFamily celebrating Gurudev
@SrBachchan Sir's 43rd Rebirth Day by Donating Blood at @KDAHMumbai... A small Tribute to all Donors who donated blood in 1982 & saved #AmitabhBachchan ji's life.#HappyReBirthdayAmitabhBachchan ji @AmitJos58870630ji"
A fan shared this iconic video of the actor and wrote, "#AmitabhBachchan's rebirth on August 2 - A day when millions of prayers brought back the Shahenshah of Bollywood to life after a near-fatal accident during the filming of #Coolie @SrBachchan Sir 🙌❤️#HappyReBirthAB 🤗"
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Meanwhile, Bachchan also expressed gratitude and thanked fans for their wishes.
He wrote on his blog, "To all the Ef and friends and well wishers that have sent messages for Aug 2 , my gratitude as ever and my apologies for not being able to respond to each of them, as the numbers are huge ..but ever so grateful for remembering me .. my love respect and filled with your blessings ..🙏"
The accident took place due to an accidental punch from
Puneet Issar
. Big B and Puneet had to perform an action scene in the film and the scene went fine during rehearsals.
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In a recent interview with Siddharth Kannan, Puneet had described how gracious Amitabh Bachchan was as he called Puneet to meet him at the hospital. He said, 'The greatness of Mr Bachchan, he said he wanted to meet me. When he called for me, I was in tears. I kept thinking, 'All this happened because of me.' He said, "I was in tears but he told me, 'Puneet, it's not your fault.
Accidents happen during action scenes.'' Puneet added that Bachchan then recalled an incident with Vinod Khanna. He said, "Uss avastha mein he told me he was shooting for an action scene with Vinod Khanna and had to hit him with the glass. During the rehearsals, 10 times, it went fine but during the take, the timing went wrong either by him or Khanna and the glass hit Khanna's chin and he got 7-8 stitches and I was feeling the same thing which you're feeling today."
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