Amitabh Bachchan is father of our industry says Akshay Kumar

Mega Star Amitabh Bachchan conferred with ‘Indian Film Personality of the Year’ at closing ceremony of IFFI Goa 2017 on Tuesday in Goa. Before conferring the award to him Akshay Kumar gave emotional yet comical speech about effect of Amitabh Bachchan on his life.

Addressing the crowd and Amitabh Bachchan who were present at the closing ceremony of IFFI 2017, Akshay said, “Today, I want to share that how his personality affect common man like me. I remember when I was 12-13 years old in 1980s, I visited Kashmir with my parents for vacation and in Kashmir, sir was shooting for his film. I was watching his shoot so my father told me to take his autograph so I went up to him and he was eating grapes at that time so I requested him to give me an autograph but while he was giving me autograph , my eyes were on the grapes that he was eating. I wanted to have those grapes in between that one of grapes fell down so while he was writing, I bent down and took that grapes and he noticed that but pretended that he didn’t saw it and with his autograph he gave bunch of grapes.”

“I want to say that those grapes were sour but for a child like me it was like getting a chocolate box from him. I ate those grapes and it digested as well but the essence of it is still with me. That gesture, that learning from him, I remembered all my life. I didn’t knew that one day I will work in film industry and similar incident happened with me when I was shooting for my film ‘Keemat’, where people were not allowing a kid to be on film set so I went up to that kid when he was crying. I talked with him and gave him autograph and today that kid has turned out to be the Ranveer Singh so the kind of effect sir has on my life be it punctuality or acting.. not much of acting. I still have to learn acting but sir I am still trying.”