Big B, Amitabh Bachchan, announced that he has cancer. He was first diagnosed while shooting KBC 2 with dark shadows at the base of his spine and lumps in his body.

Ten days of detailed tests ruled out the fatal disease, while the happy-host was still conducting the popular show, suffering from “affluent tuberculosis”, with prescribed drugs that can “knock you off.”

Bachchan adds that’s not the only reason he has to thank the lord, describing his battle with his body muscles that had completely given up on him, only a year after the freak accident on Coolie’s sets; a bomb that morphed his palm and fingers into a “meat-ball”, and he had to entirely shoot for Sharaabi with one hand in his pocket. The struggle behind a so-called style statement.