Bollywood veteran Bachchan will shoot new action film

MUMBAI - Veteran Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is nearly 70, but he hopes his new movie will prove that he still has what it takes to beat the bad guys.

The 68-year-old, known for classics like "Sholay" (Sparks) and "Deewaar" (Wall) in 1970, plays a gangster in "Hoga Tera Baap Bbuddha ..." (your father's old), which hits screens on July 1 .

"Big B" as he commonly known by fans, sing, dance and fight their way through the film as his "angry young man" signs of aging. The only difference now, he jokes, he's just an 'angry man. "

"It's always difficult to attempt at this age, but thanks to technology, the cinema, life is a lot easier, but you have nuclear energy," he told reporters in Mumbai recently.

"I can not go out and do things that will feel young, apart from the regular gym regimen, yoga and eat the right food."

Bachchan, who retains a loyal, fanatical group of followers in India and worldwide, is a mainstay in the Hindi-language cinema for the past five decades.

But his life is more remarkable given that he almost died in an accident on the set of the film "Coolie" in 1982 and the subsequent surgery and blood transfusion led to him contracting cirrhosis.

The actress is teetotal and from the hospital for check-ups since then, including his 66th anniversary in 2008, sparking concerns among fans and waking in the hospital where he was treated.

"Bbuddha" co-produced by its own AIF's Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL) with a reported cost of 100 million rupees ($ 2.2 million).

The company co-produced Bachchan in the 2009 movie "On" (father), where he was a child playing with a rapid aging disease are real sun Abhishek.

Bachchan production company struggled with debt in the year 1990, and he even had his home mortgage. But with age, he says that he is the wisdom of taking small, rather than high-risk projects.

The actor who played in over 150 films, says the work is what drives him, even in an age when most people would decrease.

He writes a daily blog, and is active in micro-blogging site Twitter to inform fans of the length of his latest projects and speculations about life in general.
He was recently seen in the movie "Aarakshan" (book), along with Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone as he has two other films in the pipeline.

One of his next projects is to host a new series of the Indian version of the hit British quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Who helped revive his lot with the public after a series of flops in the 1980s and 1990.

"It's a job that drives me," he said. "I am glad I am in the morning and I have work to do. I will keep working until I die."