Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has been conferred the 'Maharashtrian of the Year' award by a popular Marathi newspaper Lokmat. Bacchan Sr, who happens to be an avid blogger, wrote on his micro-blogging page- "And today another Award for me - "The Maharashtrian of the Year", a 'Maanbindu', from no less a person than the President of the Country, the respected and honorable Shrimati Pratibha Patil. So grateful and humbled".


The 69-year-old thanks the Mumbai for conferring him with this reward. "I have spent 3/4ths of my life in this city - 42 years! And all that I have received in life apart from my parents and my education have come to me from this golden land, " he wrote.

"Name, fame, honour, recognition, home and family, children and children of children, everything indebted to the city and state for making me whatever I am today! My obeisance to this great city and its people, for giving me all that I have with me today," he posted.