He is the King of Billion hearts and ultimate superstar of Bollywood.But this time he has hit the headline in US media for a different reason. He cleared the debts of many farmers amounting to more than half a million.

Amitabh expects others to follow the same track to help the farmers.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has cleared more than $560,000 worth of debt owed by farmers, amid a wider agricultural crisis that has forced many rural workers into extreme poverty https://t.co/ORbgWc3HxQ pic.twitter.com/3eT6gZmBwN

— CNN (@CNN) November 21, 2018

thank you CNN .. I thank you not for any praise or aggrandisement .. I shun that .. but retweet, so many others can come forward to bring succour to our Farmers that suffer loan repayments .. leading them to extreme poverty and shockingly, to suicide !! https://t.co/ACg7CViiAz

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) November 24, 2018