Veteran actor Puneet Issar lost seven to eight films after Amitabh Bachchan was accidentally injured by him on the sets of Coolie. Bachchan was hospitalised for several months but still, Big B always treated Issar with kindness, revealing that there were no hard feelings between the actors.
“My encounter with Mr Amitabh Bachchan was rather unfortunate. I remember while shooting for ‘Coolie’, we had to perform this particular action sequence. The timing during the final take did not match and I accidentally injured Mr Bachchan,” recalled Issar.
While shooting Manmohan Desai’s “Coolie”, On July 26, 1982, Issar was supposed to aim a fake hit at Bachchan so that the actor may land on the iron table. But during the final take, the hit was mistimed and an edge of the table hit Bachchan’s lower abdomen which led him to be hospitalised for several months.
Issar was taken aback seeing Big B’s condition, said: “But the great man that he is, he put his arm around my shoulder and walked me till the gate to show everyone that there was no bad blood between us. My wife even donated blood to him.”
The 60-year-old opened up about his situation post that incident, Issar said: “I lost about seven to eight films after this incident, until (the TV show) ‘Mahabharat’ came my way. Initially, I was called in for the role of Bhim but I was keen to portray Duryodhan. I recited Duryodhan’s dialogue and bagged the role. The rest is history.”
Issar went on to reveal about this accident during an episode of Zee TV’s singing reality show “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs”.
