Flashback: Amitabh Bachchan's second birth after his near-death experience on the sets of Coolie in 1982
India TV NewsBig B aka Amitabh Bachchan had a major accident while shooting for a film in 1982. Within five days of coming into Breach Candy, I had another surgery and didn't come out of that one for a very, very long time and I was clinically dead for a couple of minutes. Then Dr Wadia, who looked after me and is an absolute life-saver, just said I'm going to take a last chance and he started pumping cortisone/adrenaline injections into me one after another almost 40 ampules of it, with the hope that something that would happen and then I got revived".Amitabh Bachchan resumed his shoot for the film Coolie in 1983 and the movie went on to become the highest-grossing film. In Kalki 2898 AD, the science-fiction film will feature Kamal Haasan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Disha Patani among others.