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Amitabh Bachchan injured during shoot, rib cage broke

Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood superstar, revealed that he was injured while filming his upcoming film, Project K, in Hyderabad. "Painful," says on twitter.

Amitabh Bachchan, the Bollywood superstar, revealed that he was injured while filming his upcoming film, Project K, in Hyderabad. Big B revealed on his blog on Sunday that he had broken his rib cartilage and is currently resting at home in Mumbai.

“In Hyderabad at shoot for Project K, during an action shot, got injured, rib cartilage popped broke and muscle tear to the right rib cage. Cancelled shoot, did doctor consult & scan by CT at AIG Hospital in Hyderabad and flown back home,” posted Amitabh Bachchan.

The suffered injury during an action sequence of the film. He unfortunately suffered a muscle tear to his right rib cage.

“Strapping has been done and rest been advocated .. yes painful .. on movement and breathing .. will take some weeks they say before some normalisation will occur .. some medication is on also for pain .. So all work that was to be done has been suspended and canceled dropped postponed for the moment until healing occurs ..I rest at Jalsa and am mobile a bit for all the essential activities .. but yes in rest and generally lying around …” Big B wrote.

Expressing his anguish the actor added, “It shall be difficult or let me say .. I shall be unable to meet, the well wishers at Jalsa Gate this evening .. so do not come .. and do inform as much as you can to those that intend coming …All else is well …” he posted.

Project K, directed by Nag Ashwin, is a bilingual film shot in two languages, Hindi and Telugu, in various locations. Deepika Padukone and Prabhash are the film’s pivotal characters.

Amitabh Bachchan said he found comfort in the words of his ‘Babuji’ during this difficult time.

The actor wrote in his blog, “Getting time to spend time with Babuji and his genius, his mind his words and his immense creativity .. the essence of life resides in his writings .. and such a learning and amazed joy to be in his company ..There is desire to share .. to share what ever little that I may interpret from his words and his memories of the times spent with him .. to lament the limited .. to be in awe of the vision and the intellect of such a being .. and wonder how ever did one think of all that was written spoken thought by him ..” 


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