Bollywood's 'Shehanshah' Amitabh Bachchan was conferred with the 'Indian Film Personality of the Year Award' at the closing ceremony of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on Tuesday. The superstar overwhelmed by the love and honour has described the evening as one that he shall never forget.

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The veteran star was honoured for his outstanding contribution to the Indian film industry. Big B took to his blog to thank Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Smriti Irani, who presented the award to him at the 48th edition of IFFI. "Thank you Smriti ji Hon Minister for Information & Broadcasting and the trouble you took in organising a most memorable evening for me .. one that I shall never forget .." he wrote.

Not just an award for Big B, actors from b-town who were also part of the ceremony bestowed him with love and admiration. Senior Bachchan even got embarassed by Akshay Kumar saying " America has Batman, Spider-Man, Superman...but India and my superhero is our very own Angry Young Man, @SrBachchan Sir, rightly the Indian Personality of the Year !" 

Just like him, Sidharth Malhotra too appeared star-struck in Big B's presence.

The "PINK? star also took to Twitter to express his delight as he posted, "A most humbling evening at the IFFI awards .. honoured and filled with such gratefulness to IFFI and the extremely endearing words by Akshay Kumar, Karan, and the dignitaries ."(With ANI inputs)