The Shahenshah of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, is celebrating his 82nd birthday today on October 11. This is a special occasion, and it will be interesting to see if Big B will cut a cake on his birthday this time too. However, he has already made it clear that he no longer cuts cakes on his birthday. Let's know the reason behind this.

Amitabh Bachchan has shared his views in the context of celebrating birthdays and said that he does not see any justification in the tradition of cutting cakes. He also said that he has tried to end this practice, as he does not understand why cake is brought on birthdays and why candles are put.

In his usual funny style, Amitabh said in an interview that when the candles on the cake burn, we try to extinguish them by blowing. After this a big knife comes, which is used to cut the cake. He also said that nowadays a new tradition has emerged, where there is a competition to smear cake on the face on birthdays, which makes him feel more uncomfortable. That is why he has decided to give up the tradition of cutting the cake.

Instead, Amitabh now prefers Indian sweets like milk cake. His wife Jaya Bachchan participated in a special episode of 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' during the actor's 80th birthday. There she said, "Our family has a tradition, we don't sing 'Happy Birthday'. Like our father-in-law said, we say - 'Harsh Nav, Varsh Nav, Jeevan Utkarsh Nav.'" This is a special tradition of their family, which has a different way of celebrating birthdays. Jaya also said that "We don't cut cakes on birthdays. In India there is a sweet - milk cake. We bring that on birthdays."

Talking about work front, Amitabh Bachchan recently appeared in the role of Ashwatthama in the film 'Kalki 2898 A.D.', which was highly appreciated by the audience and critics. Apart from this, he has also worked with Rajinikanth in the Tamil film 'Vettaiyan', which is currently being released in theatres.