Amitabh Bachchan’s father-in-law was a famous journalist. He wrote about Amitabh’s accident, hospital memories in an article in Illustrated Weekly of India. “When we reached Mumbai after learning of the accident, there were many friends there, some of whom we knew and some of whom we did not know. But they all said, ‘The whole country is praying for Amitabh regardless of caste, caste, religion. Nothing will happen to them’. “I slept soundly that night, believing that nothing would happen to Amit if the prayer had any meaning,” Bhaduri had said.

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Amitabh Bachchan’s father-in-law was an atheist. So he disagreed with the opinion of the people that Bachchan was cured by the Parthas. “The next morning after the accident, Jaya took me and my wife to the intensive care unit of Breach Candy Hospital. There Amit was sleeping on a bed. He had many tubes attached to his body, his eyes were sunken. Seeing him, my wife collapsed and Amit whispered, ‘Dad, I can’t sleep.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry, you will sleep,’ I was comforting even though I knew it was of no use,” said Tarun Kumar Bhaduri.

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His father-in-law felt that the doctors and experts who tried hard to save Big B’s life were not given enough credit. “People across the country were praying for Amitabh’s recovery. It has never happened before that a whole country is praying for the recovery of a man. Amitabh’s life was saved after treatment. My wife and millions of others said they were saved by the ‘grace of God’, but I don’t agree. I told my wife and Jaya that if Amit had not survived, everyone would have blamed the doctor. Now if his life has been saved, why didn’t people appreciate the doctor? They had no answer. They thought it was a divine miracle, but I don’t think so. It was a miracle performed by the medical experts at Breach Candy Hospital,” said Tarun Kumar Bhaduri.

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Meanwhile, Amitabh Bachchan was undergoing treatment for several weeks. After his recovery, he thanked all the fans. I am grateful that people across the country have prayed for me, I will try to fulfill your expectations, Big B had said in an interview to Doordarshan.

The movie ‘Coolie’ was released in 1983, directed by Manmohan Desai. Amitabh Bachchan met with an accident during the shooting of this film, the information was also given on the screen. Also, the ending of the film was changed after Big B’s accident. This film was a blockbuster at that time.