Over 34 years ago, Amitabh Bachchan (Big B) regained consciousness after a near-fatal accident while filming "Coolie" and the legend remembers the day as his second birthday.
On July 26 1982, Big B suffered an accident and was injured in the intestines while shooting a scene from the film in Bangalore. In the fight scene, Bachchan was supposed to fall onto a table, but mis-timed his jump. This resulted in an internal abdominal injury. He was transferred to a Mumbai hospital, where according to the actor, he went into a "haze and coma-like situation", and was "clinically dead for a couple of minutes".
Despite critical injury, Bachchan recovered remarkably and resumed shooting on 7 January 1983. In the final cut of the film, the fight scene during which he got injured was frozen and a message appears marking the scene as the one in which he was injured.
Due to Bachchan's injury, the ending was also changed. The original script showed Amitabh dying after Kader Khan shot him. But later on, after the injury-and-recovery episode, Manmohan Desai, decided to change the ending. The modified ending has the hero recover after his operation.
Big B took to Twitter same day last year to thank his fans for their wishes and prayers on the incident...
“To all that wish me today, may I just say I am overwhelmed by your prayers and concern and love … Indebted.”
On July 13, 2016, he shared a throwback picture of himself and veteran actor Dharmendra and wrote... :T 2315 - When Dharam ji came to wish me on my first day on set after Coolie accident recovery .. !"
His son Abhishek also took to Instagram last year to wish him. He shared a picture of Big B from a scene in Coolie and wrote, “I can’t even remember how many times I would drape a bedsheet in the same way and re-enact this sequence from Coolie. Would make my friends play the role of Zafar and shoot me with a plastic play gun and I would play the part of Iqbal. Yup, I learnt very early in my life that God made only one Amitabh Bachchan. Happy second birthday Pa. You are my inspiration...”
We all remember Coolie right? It remains evergreen; actually Big B himself is evergreen...
There were tons of wishes for the legend on Twitter for this second birthday including one from me too... 😍
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