Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray is in a critical condition and megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his family went to satisfy the ailing leader at his house Matoshree this Wednesday night. However, both Amitabh and Abhishek faced injuries as they struggled throughout the maddening crowd to make their way into the house.
“Balasaheb Thackeray: a fighter all his life, fights his life! Prayers needed now! Yes both Abhishek and me were injured with cuts, but are fine and back home… the doctors at Matoshree attended on us,” Amitabh tweeted.
Amitabh recalled the time when he was recovering in hospital after his near fatal accident at the sets of 1983 film “Coolie”, and Thackeray had come to peer him.
“When I USED TO BE flown in to Mumbai from Bangalore in semi-conscious state after ‘Coolie’ accident, it was his ambulance that took me to Breach Candy Hospital,” Amitabh said.
“When I fought for my life after ‘Coolie’ accident, he came over me in hospital, with a cartoon he had drawn – Yamraj defeated! Yamraj – God of Death, defeated by me… wish I USED TO BE as proficient a cartoonist as he, I MIGHT want to draw that for him,” added Big B.
The 70-year-old says Thackeray has always treated him like family.
“When Jaya and that i married, he (Bal Thackeray) called us to his house… and the rituals that were conducted was of the ‘bahu’ coming home! From that day on he always treated us as family,” he said.
“When the Bofors Scandal accusations on us were at its peak, he called me home and asked ‘tell me the truth, are you involved?’ After I said ‘No!’, he said ‘Then don't worry about anything. I'M with you. You might be an actor, go do what you might be best at’,” he added.
