Amitabh Bachchan proudly declares Abhishek Bachchan as his ‘heir’.

With the recent release of the ‘Dasvi’ trailer, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan has been garnering immense praise for his performance in it, and seems like his father Amitabh Bachchan is his newest admirer. The megastar, on Thursday, March 24, shared an appreciation tweet for Abhishek in which he expressed that his son has proved to be a fitting ‘uttaradhikaari’.

Sharing the link for the trailer of Abhishek’s upcoming social-comedy, Amitabh quoted his father, writer-poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, and wrote, “Mere bete, bete hone se tum mere uttradhikari nahi hoge. Jo mere uttradhikari honge, wo mere bete honge – Harivansh Rai Bachchan. Abhishek, tum mere uttradhikari hoge, bus keh diya to keh diya.” Responding to his father’s appreciation of him on Twitter, Abhishek wrote, “Love you Pa, always and eternally.”

Big B even shared the trailer on his Instagram handle and called his son as ‘the pride of a father’ as he wrote, “The Pride of a Father…in film after film he surprises all with the incredible portrayal of totally different characters ..its PHENOMENAL to be able to do that so successfully!!!”. The ‘Bob Biswas’ actor took to the comments section and wrote, “You will always be the ultimate inspiration, Pa. Love you and thank you.”

Abhishek Bachchan’s upcoming venture Dasvi trailer released on March 23 and is garnering a lot of praise right now.

The social comedy tells the story of Ganga Ram Chaudhary, an anpadh, corrupt and dil se desi politician who finds a nayi chunauti in prison: education.

Apart from Abhishek, the social comedy also stars Yami Gautam and Nimrat Kaur. Nimrat will play the role of Bimla Devi, Chaudhary’s wife who has now taken over his chief minister seat while he is in jail. Yami will mark her presence as IPS officer Jyoti Deswal. Produced by Dinesh Vijan under his banner Maddock Films, Jio Studios, and Bake My Cake Films, the film will release on Netflix India and Jio Cinema on April 7.

By line: Divya Thearia