‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 13’: Amitabh Bachchan unable to find his pulse, here’s why

Amitabh Bachchan said that no one can feel his wrist pulse on an episode of the renowned game show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati 13'. This is because he once had an accident that necessitated surgery on his wrist.

On 'KBC', Amitabh was prompted to check his own pulse after asking a contestant a question about it. He then said, “I don’t have any (pulse rate). After I met with an accident, doctors operated my wrist, and since then I can’t feel my pulse on my wrist. Sometimes I joke with others to check my pulse and then they get shocked, unable to find it. I find it funny at times.”

In a 2020 blog, Amitabh had written about injuring his hand: “The very next year (two years after his accident on sets of Coolie) after the myasthenia, a bomb exploded in my hand. Yes the left again, at the time of Diwali. It was a spurious ‘anar’, the sparkling fountain, and as I was lighting it exploded in my hand. The entire palm and the area below my wrist burnt up into almost a pulp. The left hand had melted into a fist shape, with nothing left of it. No fingers, no nails, no nothing.”

For the unversed, last month, Amitabh Bachchan returned as host of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati 13' for the thirteenth time. He has hosted every season of the renowned game show except one. Shah Rukh Khan hosted the outlier season. Two contestants have already attempted the Rs 1 crore question this season, and a third will do so this week. Only one contestant has reached the jackpot question worth Rs $7 crore.