Wish I had spent more time with my father, says Amitabh Bachchan

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan regrets having not spending enough time with father, poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, who kept very busy with his work.

The 72-year-old actor says while growing up he had very little interaction with his father but with time their relationship grew stronger.

"I regret not spending enough time with my father. My father was very busy. He had a government job and besides that he used to do other things and would come home very late. Our relationship was very serious. I was scared of him but eventually things changed," he said.

The 'Paa' star said that he has always tried to maintain a very friendly relationship with his son, actor Abhishek.

"The day I got married I thought that if I ever have a son I would be a friend to him. And I have always maintained that.

Now we are like buddies and also share clothes," said Bachchan at the Agenda Aaj Tak event here today.

During the session Bachchan recited lines from his father's noted poems including 'Madhushala'.

The actor said that even though his father wrote extensively on alcohol and alcoholics, he never drank.

"People often wondered how he would write so much about alcohol. My father never touched alcohol in his life. The poems he wrote were very revolutionary at that time. He wrote some 200 odd poems," he said.

Bachchan is currently shooting 'Wazir' and 'Shamitabh'. He has recently wrapped up Shoojit Sircar's ' Piku'.