Must See: UNSEEN PICTURES of Amitabh Bachchan's life

Rediff.com celebrates the superstar's birthday with this special series, looking back at the very things that made him the BIG B.

We bring to you unseen pictures of the legendary actor from his life, with some interesting trivia.

The pictures have been posted by Amitabh himself on his official social media accounts.

This was Amitabh's first day at work after recovering from the near-fatal accident while filming a fight sequence in this film.

Amitabh and co-star Puneet Issar were shooting a fight sequence in Bangalore, when a mistimed punch-and-jump left the Big B with a ruptured spleen.

The actor was immediately airlifted to Mumbai where he was hospitalised for two weeks. 

'I told Manmohan Desai, when I resume shooting I want it to start from the same shot that I was felled during the accident. I had wanted to get up and punch the villain !! This exactly what

I did ! Amjad and many other friends came to wish me on resumption of work,' Amitabh wrote.

Amitabh, however, remembers this sequence for other reasons.

'During the shoot I got the news of Abhishek’s birth at Breach Candy Hospital , and I stopped the shoot and rushed there,' Amitabh wrote. 'Everyone on set commented as I left .. “agar beta

hua toh uska naam Tiger rakhna” !! Ha ha ! For long years till I think he was 4 or 5 years old I would call him Tiger when I would call from locations on phone.'

'Namakharam bore seeds of the anger that was next seen in Zanjeer, and the subsequent titling of the epithet ‘angry young man’ by the media. But I have always believed that the first

powerful depiction or in a sense the birth of the so called ‘angry young man’, was designed by Mehboob Saheb in ‘Mother India’, where the character Birju, played so brilliantly by Sunil

Dutt, was depicted. I worked in two films with Rajesh Khanna – Anand and Namakharam. Both were successful ventures,' Amitabh wrote.

It was directed by Ramesh Sippy.

‘ee hai bambai nagariya … ‘the street song from ‘Don’ … that awkward moment of song on the streets of Mumbai, early days and the embarrassment of it all … Chandra Barot the director of the

film seeming to enjoy my condition .. the image at the back is Gateway of India, Mumbai .. built at the time of the official Royal visit to the city in welcome during the British Raj.'

'This is in the 80's with the greatest Mohammed Ali .. Prakash mehra and myself and my brother Ajitabh at his residence in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles,' he wrote.

This is how Amitabh Bachchan describes Pran, his co-star of many films. This award function was held in the year 1992.

This was Salman and Aamir Khan's first concert tour.

Sridevi and Neelam were also present.

'Old memories !!! I think this is on the sets of Trishul .. Rakhee ji, Shashi ji and the self indulging in a bit of card play .. what times we had during this shoot in Delhi ... someday one

shall write about it in detail,' Amitabh wrote.  

Amitabh wrote, 'This is a play I did in College when in the Delhi University. The play was called ‘The Rape of the Belt’ and it was the Annual play of Miranda House, the ladies college in

the University campus. They had asked for male actors to participate picked from some of the other Colleges. So three male actors as you can see in the picture were chosen as per

recommendations form the drama societies of other Colleges and there we are.