/> Where does he find these reserves of monstrous energy? Let's not even go there. Actor Amitabh Bachchan has donned too many caps in his career to count them.

As a singer he has been actively doing his own playback from Mr Natwarlal in 1979 to Nishabd and Baabul in 2007.

Even as Vishal-Shekhar puts together an album of hip-hop featuring Abhishek with his dude-ka-dude-pani-ka-pani dad, the Big B is on to his most unique project yet...A new youth-oriented rendition of the ancient and sacrosanct Hanuman Chalisa composed specially for the young and trendy generation.

Describing the project as "divine and heavenly" the Big B explains. "A new youth-oriented rendition has been on my mind for a very long time. Finally Aadesh Shrivastava with whom I've done a lot of singing, has done it. I'd call it his great creative effort."

Sneak hearings of the Hanuman Chalisa to be released in September, have obtained astonishing responses.

Reluctant to talk about the feedback the Big B says, "Wherever I've played the Hanuman Chalisa so far people have found it to be a divine experience...hair-raising, goosebumpy....that's how the endeavour has been described so far.

I guess it's more to do with the nature of the project than the singing. There's a deep connect with the Hanuman Chalisa in perhaps every Hindu home. We've all grown up reciting it. It still plays an important part in our lives."

But if you think this is as far as the Big B tryst with divine singing goes then think again. The Hanuman Chalisa is just the beginning.

The Big B will now go into an even more ambitious spiritual project. This one is for the Big B's illustrious dad theHindi poet Harivanshrai Bachchan.

Says the Big B, "Aadesh Shrivastav and I will now be collaborating over a new interpretation of the Bhagavat Geeta.

It's one of my father's unknown and unacknowledged masterpieces, of immense literary and religious value. We'll be doing a musical version of my father's Bhagavat Gita which he had translated into the language and meter of the Ramayan.

In this, the centenary year of my father's existence I can think of no better tribute, " ends the proud son emotionally.