Amitabh Bachchan is now fit to resume work and is planning to return to the arc lights later this month. Bachchan says he will probably get back to work after March 20 with the shooting for his makeup man Deepak Sawant’s Bhojpuri film. “Then I’ll shoot for Karan Johar’s ‘Kabhi Alavidaa Na Kehna’. Then a couple of days will be set aside to shoot for ads. And then I go into Ravi Chopra’s ‘Babul’.”

He had undergone an abdominal surgery late last year. The songs in “Babul” are still being polished. “I want to sing them as well as I can. But the basics are in place. The fine-tuning needs to be done,” said Bachchan. A proposed trip to Mauritius for the Zee Cine Awards has been cancelled.

His son Abhishek was supposed to perform. And I’d have loved to watch him. My grandchildren, my daughter and Jaya were also supposed to join us in Mauritius. But Abhishek is down with a viral flu. And the doctors have forbidden me from travelling. So we aren’t going. Sanjay Bhansali or Rani can collect my award,” Bachchan told IANS.