Just a day ahead of his 70th Birthday, Big B wrote on his blog “I may not get the time, or have sufficient energy to write in today, so I come in early to express my grateful thanks to all that have wished me, and merely say this ..”

“Without you my life would have been incomplete .. The blessings of the Almighty, the affection and care and upbringing of my parents and my family, and the deep love of my well wishers has kept me alive …”

“I am whatever I am today because of all the above … it has been so from the beginning, it shall remain so till the end ..” On the other hand, the social networking websites are flooded in with various birthday messages for the Bollywood star.