Amitabh Bachchan resumed his Sunday routine of greeting fans outside his Mumbai home, Jalsa, after his injury. The veteran actor also resumed his blog, wherein he wrote about drinking and smoking as a youngster and the “sudden and immediate” resolve to quit both habits in one go.

“Practicals bring back memories of school, where the word or the expression was invariably referred to the practicals in the science labs... mixing elements, playing around with gadgetry in the physics lab… the college routine in continuation and the site one fine day when the last paper for the Graduate degree was over to find some of the classmates celebrating with the pure alcohol, kept in the lab... (sic).”

The 80-year-old then wrote about participating in social drinking: “Yes there were a few other instances noticed, in school and in college, when this intoxicant played havoc due to its excess... and then when in job in the City of Joy (Kolkata), the natural curriculum seemed to be in line with that phrase ‘social drinking’.”

Bachchan went on to talk about how he left the two habits: “The way to leave is really quite simple... chuck that glass of the intoxicant, while in the middle of it and crush the ‘ciggi (cigarette)’ on your lips at the same time and... sayonara (goodbye in Japanese)... the very best way to be in riddance… not some part time exigencies to stop the use... its the removal of the cancer at once.”