India, Dec. 28 -- Khuda Gawah producer Manoj Desai has claimed that megastar Amitabh Bachchan was once offered to buy the Best Actor award, which he refused. He further claimed that the award organisers then approached Anil Kapoor, who went on to accept the honour.

During an interview with Vickey Lalwani on his YouTube channel, Manoj Desai, theatre owner and producer, revealed that Amitabh Bachchan was once offered an award but refused to accept it.

Manoj said, "Once Amitabh Bachchan and I were sitting together when the award function was going on. Rauf Ahmed (late film writer) came to me and asked me, 'If I give the Best Actor award to Amitabh Bachchan, will you bear the whole expense of this party?' I went to ask Amitabh Bachchan to a...