India, Sept. 15 -- Actor Amitabh Bachchan has often openly spoken about his health issues. A few years ago, on Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), Amitabh talked up about how he contracted hepatitis and revealed it was connected to his accident on the sets of his 1983 film Coolie.

Speaking to a contestant, Amitabh had shared that he got hepatitis via a blood transfusion when he was admitted to the hospital after the accident. "In 1982, during the accident, I needed a lot of blood, nearly 200 people donated, and there were 60 bottles. And amongst them was one person who was carrying the Hepatitis B virus, which wasn't detected."

"This entered my body. This happened in 1982. And in 2005, during a general investigation, it was detected. 75 per ce...