On July 26 1982, Bachchan suffered the accident while shooting Manmohan Desai's film in Bangalore.
A mistimed jump in a fight scene with co-star Puneet Issar made him hit the corner of a table, instead of landing on top of it as he was meant to.
Bachchan thanked his fans for their prayers as he took to his Twitter to recall the incident.
"Some years you do not wish to remember .. Thank you to them that prayed for me...," the 73-year-old "Piku" star tweeted.
His actor son Abhishek took to Instagram to wish him.
He shared a picture of Bachchan from a scene in "Coolie" and wrote, "I can't even remember how many times I would drape a bedsheet in the same way and re-enact this sequence from "Coolie". Would make my friends play the role of Zafar and shoot me with a plastic play gun and I would play the part of Iqbal.
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