Amitabh Bachchan has given Bollywood some of its finest movies and he is not stopping anytime soon as he continues to give us cinema at its best. His film career spans over fifty years. But, he is still acting in numerous films and remains a crowd attraction.
Thus, he was honored with the Indian Film Personality Of The Year award at the recently concluded International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa on Tuesday. The closing ceremony was a star-studded affair, at which Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani and Akshay Kumar presented the award to the 75-year-old megastar.
Presenting the Film Personality of the Year Award to Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay delivered a heartfelt, emotional speech in which he spoke about what Bachchan Senior means to the entire Hindi film fraternity as well as to him, personally.
Amitabh remains an idol for Bollywood stars like Akshay and he doesn’t waste any opportunity to show his affection for the actor. Amitabh was touched by the kind words towards him by actor Akshay Kumar, film director Karan Johar and other dignitaries who were present at the glamorous event.
Being very active on social media, he blogged about the ceremony and called it one of the most amazing evenings of his life.
T 2725 -A most humbling evening at the IFFI awards .. honoured and filled with such gratefulness to IFFI and the extremely endearing words by Akshay Kumar, Karan, and the dignitaries .. मेरा आभार , स्नेह pic.twitter.com/yNWbzl8ljP
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 28, 2017
He went on to personally thank Member of Parliament Smriti Irani for her efforts to make the evening both emotional and endearing.
Thank you Smriti ji .. for the honour and the effort to make my evening a most emotional and endearing one .. 🙏🙏🇮🇳 https://t.co/tLsxIfvOn4
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 28, 2017
When Akshay met Amitabh on stage, he bent down to touch his feet. This act didn’t go well with senior Bachchan as he felt embarrassed by the act.
Watch The Video Here:
America has Batman, Spider-Man, Superman…but India and my superhero is our very own Angry Young Man, @SrBachchan Sir, rightly the Indian Personality of the Year ! #IFFI2017 pic.twitter.com/g1y4rvUQtx
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) November 28, 2017
When one of his fans posted a picture of Akshay showing his respect to Bachchan by touching his feet with the message “Charan Sparsh”.
Charan Sparsh 🙏🏻🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/rHMQGg9vs6
— EF❤️Ashok Mistry (@ashokmistry4545) November 28, 2017
Bachchan was quick to reply:
embarrassed that Akshay does this .. no Akshay this is not done https://t.co/ySIylzttXJ
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 28, 2017
Ye to pyaar bhara samman hai.
— EF❤️Ashok Mistry (@ashokmistry4545) November 28, 2017
Fans of both Amitabh and Akshay replied to his tweet justifying the action. They said that it is a part of Indian culture to show respect to elders by touching their feet.
Twitter Reactions:
isn’t this the beauty of indian culture !!!! and yes being blessed by a person like you is a true blessing indeed!!!!
— Soul Curry (@alaz007) November 28, 2017
Why r u embrassed??? He is showing respect. . Through “charan sparsh”, an individual exhibits the respect one holds for the elderly, the wise, and those with ideals and an outstanding contribution to society.
— Medhavi M Pandey (@MedhaviMPandey) November 29, 2017
Vow…! This is amazing…! Humbleness from the heart ❣Love u @akshaykumar sir…! U a role model…! @SrBachchan sir ❤️ for ever…!
— Sulile Kumar (@sulile_kumar) November 28, 2017
badon ka aadar aise hee karna chaahiye… yehi seekha hai hamne
— Mukesh Nangia, MD (@mnangia1) November 28, 2017
Sir aap Sadi ke Maha Nayak ho Yeh to banta hai
— Rahul Jain (@realindian1983) November 28, 2017
Elders feet is heaven’s blessings @SrBachchan Ji. My Pranams to you. Wish Akshay n Me Akshaya Aishwaryam
— Adv. Aiyer VLV (@VaraSiddHiVakil) November 28, 2017
Sir this is our culture to showing our respect towards elders.
— Rahul Sinha (@BeingRahulSinha) November 28, 2017
@ashokmistry4545 Sir Thr was a good confidence & Good Thinking of Superstar Akshay Kumar Who paid Extra ordinary Respect to You.
— Nandalal Saha (@nandlala559) November 28, 2017
Akshay has the utmost respect for the legendary actor and his actions were not meant to embarrass him. It was a gesture of love and respect. Akshay first co-starred with Amitabh Bachchan in 2002’s Aankhen and has also shared screen space with Big B in films like Rishtaa, Waqt, and Family.
Amitabh Bachchan will next be seen in Thugs Of Hindostan while Akshay Kumar’s next is Padman.