If you had been following Amitabh Bachchan's filmography, you might be knowing what happened today, 36 years back. For the uninitiated, Amitabh Bachchan suffered a near fatal accident on August 2, 1982, when he was shooting for the late Manmohan Desai film, Coolie. While performing a stunt in the film, Amitabh suffered a tear in the intestine and had gone into the coma. This was the time when Amitabh Bachchan's popularity and superstardom was at its peak. From the late Rajiv Gandhi to countless of his fans, everyone prayed for the actor to make a full recovery. Well, as you know, the prayers worked, the legend came out of the hospital and returned to shooting the movie.

That moment was labelled as many of Bachchan fans as the actor's second birth. So, on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of that unfortunate accident, fans have taken to Twitter to wish him a 36th birthday! Check out some of the tweets below -

Overwhelmed by the love being poured on him, Amitabh Bachchan tweeted back,

Amitabh Bachchan is currently in Bulgaria shooting for the supernatural love story, Brahmastra. The movie also stars Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Mouni Roy and is directed by Ayan Mukerji. Bachchan will be seen next in Aamir Khan's Thugs of Hindostan.

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