Amitabh Bachchan living with only 25% of functioning liver?

Many will recall when Amitabh Bachchan got severely injured during the shooting of ‘Coolie’ (1983). Though he had recovered, the accident has left him with whole host of health problems including Hepatitis B, where the actor has now revealed that, only 25% of his liver is actually functioning.

Talking to the media about the incident, Mid-Day reported Bachchan explaining, “When I was in hospital, there were about 200 donors, whose blood was used… One of the donors was carrying hepatitis B virus which entered my system.��In 2000, 18 years after that event, we discovered I was infected and I had lost 75 per cent of my liver… I am a person, who is surviving only on 25 per cent of his liver.”

Coming from an industry that tend to address such health and social issues from time to time, the actor was asked how he felt about starring in a film about the disease. ”

“Cinema is an entertainment medium. I wouldn’t mind doing a documentary. You pay 2,000 rupees to watch a film in a multiplex, you don’t want to see hepatitis B or tuberculosis. It can be a part of the story, which has been very interestingly done in most of our stories,” Bachchan expressed.

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