Mithun Chakraborty slit chest, prayed for this actor when doctors couldn’t…: ‘Sabne umeed chod di…’

There are two kinds of friends: the ones you casually hang out with, and the ones who know you on a deep, personal level. Then, there’s a third kind – friends who become family and would go to any lengths for you. One such friendship was shared by famous Bollywood actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty.

Mithun deeply respects this veteran actor and considers him his elder brother. In Mithun’s eyes, he is the biggest superstar of Bollywood, a sentiment he has openly expressed on a television channel. Mithun holds immense love and respect for him in his heart.

What could be a bigger example of this bond than the incident from four decades ago? When the actor in question was seriously injured during a film shoot, Mithun slit his own chest out of desperation for his safety, and blood started flowing. At one point, doctors declared the actor clinically dead, unable to detect a pulse or blood pressure. In that moment, Mithun rushed to a temple of Goddess Kali and prayed fervently for his recovery.

We are talking about Amitabh Bachchan here. When he was seriously injured while shooting Coolie in 1983, Mithun slit his chest for his well being. Big B once wrote in his blog, “A dedicated follower and one that has always been respected by the fraternity, his concern and love for all is legendary – slit his chest and took a pledge on his blood for my well being during my Coolie episode. How can one ever forget that”.

Bachchan was critically injured in the intestines while filming a fight scene in the 1983 film with co-star Puneet Issar which almost cost him his life.

Amitabh was a star by then and Mithun was in his struggling period. In the same blog, Big B recounted Mithun’s loyalty for him on the sets of his film 1976 Do Anjane in which Mithun did a cameo. He wrote, “During the shoot for Do Anjane at Calcutta he used to run around enthusiastically ready to carry my bags for me. I would desist from him doing this, but he went ahead and did it always”.

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