By: Entertainment DeskNew Delhi | December 10, 2025 07:56 PM IST 3 min readAbhishek Bachchan talks about how his mother handled father's Coolie incident. (Photo: Express Archive)While actor Amitabh Bachchan has had a storied career, there are some chapters that brought pain to his family. One of them is the infamous Coolie incident, during which he was injured while performing a stunt with actor Puneet Issar. His son, actor Abhishek Bachchan, recently talked about the same and revealed how the family went through that traumatic phase as the whole country prayed for Big B’s recovery.While appearing on the YouTube channel Peeping Moon, the actor was asked about the dark chapter and how it affected his family. Recalling that period, Abhishek shared that even though he was just 6-years-old at the time, he remembered that night “vividly.” He shared that he was in the hotel with his sister Shweta, and were waiting for their father to come back from the shoot.“That night when he returned, he had a lot of people with him, helping him walk. I went to give him a hug, and he pushed me away. I didn’t know that he was hurt, and I was angry with him all night. I don’t remember emotionally too much after that,” he recalled. Abhishek shared that his mother Jaya made the hospital visits as jovial as they could in order to shield the children from any kind of trauma. He said, “Whenever we used to go to the hospital to visit Dad, Mom and he used to make it into a game. I didn’t know how serious it was. If you keep going to the hospital, you realise something was wrong. We would be more excited for the masks, and playing doctor. He had all those drips and he would say these are ‘kites’.”ALSO READ: ‘Dharmendra put his hand on my cheek and called me good-looking,’ recalls Jaideep Ahlawat: ‘Have felt his hand holding mine’All of these games and stories kept the children aloof and happy, but the real reason for the family’s survival, according to Abhishek, was his mother, Jaya Bachchan. “All credit goes to my mom. I don’t remember seeing her cry or even be in a bad mood. She tried to normalise it as much as she could. She didn’t make it a traumatic experience at all. I can only imagine what she must have been going through. To hold the family together in such a situation must be a difficult task. She wasn’t that old. She must have been in her mid-30s, and two young children. I don’t remember it being a traumatic time but that’s because our parents never allowed it,” he said.Click here to follow Screen Digital on YouTube and stay updated with the latest from the world of cinema.© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd