Amitabh Bachchan – who played the Tall and angry young man of the early seventies who with his deep baritone voice echoed the plight and emotions of India’s common man with the character Vijay who got instant identification with the cinegoers of that era recently was full with words of praise and acknowledgement to one of the creators of this magnificent character called Vijay which became synonymous with the Big B screen name.

Amitabh said, “Salim and Javed saheb who gave me ‘Zanjeer’ and recommended me to Prakash Mehra and to so many other directors of the time – Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, Ramesh Sippy. I have never ever failed to acknowledge this fact. Indeed, in the early years of my career, when I was questioned what would happen to me if Salim-Javed were to stop writing for me, I had categorically stated that I would also stop and finish.”

Continuing and simultaneously clearing the air on some misunderstanding between him and Salman’s father Salim, Amitabh said, “Their contribution has been immense in my film career and I will never stop accepting that. I am extremely sorry if Salim saheb has felt otherwise. I wish to apologize to him and tell him that there has obviously been a miscommunication and that he should never feel that I have thought otherwise. He has been a respected senior for me and shall always remain one.”

How nice… well Producers all was and always well between Salim and Big B so can we expect another ‘Zanjeer’ (read chain) of stories penned keeping in mind the iconic Amitabh Bachchan in future.

Well... We all are waiting.