Last night at
IFFI 2017 was a star-studded affair as a bevy of Bollywood actors attended the
closing ceremony. Amitabh Bachchan, who was one of the attendees, was conferred
with the 'Indian Film Personality of the Year Award' last night at the do.
Smriti Irani and Akshay Kumar presented the award to the legendary actor.
However, what happened next left Amitabh Bachchan embarrassed. The story goes
thus, when Big B came on stage, Akshay promptly touched his feet before presenting
the award. Undeniably, Amitabh was touched by this gesture. He took to Twitter
to share the picture of that moment and captioned it, “embarrassed that Akshay
does this .. no Akshay this is not done”.
embarrassed that Akshay does this .. no Akshay this is not done https://t.co/ySIylzttXJ
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 28, 2017
He further went on to thank the jury and express how humbled he is to have
received the award. “A most humbling evening at the IFFI awards .. honoured and
filled with such gratefulness to IFFI and the extremely endearing words by
Akshay Kumar, Karan, and the dignitaries (sic)”, he said in a tweet.
T 2725 -A most humbling evening at the IFFI awards .. honoured and filled with such gratefulness to IFFI and the extremely endearing words by Akshay Kumar, Karan, and the dignitaries .. मेरा आभार , स्नेह pic.twitter.com/yNWbzl8ljP
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 28, 2017
The International Film Festival Of India (IFFI) 2017 which took place in Goa
this year saw a bevy of Bollywood celebs at the closing ceremony. Among those
who attended were Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sushant Singh Rajput, Akshay
Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra and many more.
Image Source: Manav Manglani