He may have had the maximum number of hits this year, but Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan feels Shah Rukh Khan is the ‘badshah' of the Indian film industry.

"I am not the badshah of the film industry. I am only a member. Shah Rukh Khan is the badshah," Bachchan told in Seedhi Baat programme on Aaj Tak.

The actor, who celebrated his 63rd birthday recently, was replying to a question on whether he was not the badshah of Bollywood.

"The entire world considers him the badshah. His films are the most successful," he said about why he felt Shah Rukh was the number one star.

When reminded that he had a greater number of hit films than Shah Rukh, he said, "so what. Next year, his films will do better."

Bachchan, who is having a remarkable run as an actor at present and whose biggest releases this year include Banti aur Babli, Sarkar, Black and Waqt, said he would go on acting until he was physically worn.

"I am basically a man who is looking for acting challenges, looking for work. And I will keep working till I get physically worn," he said when asked about the different kind of roles he was getting to play now in the latter half of his career.

Bachchan also said he enjoyed working with the new generation of directors and producers as they had fresh ideas about filmmaking.

"While our films are watched by 3.8 billion people, Hollywood films have an audience of about 3.2 or 3.6 billion people," Bachchan said.

About the bad patch in his life, when his company ABCL was under heavy debts, he said he got to learn a lot from the bad times. "I hope I have learned from the mistakes and won't make the same mistakes again," he said, also thanking friends such as Amar Singh, ‘Sahara shri' and Anil Ambani for their "moral support."

Further on his second coming in films, he said for certain roles, such as in the directed movie Black, he was willing to work for no money.

The ‘angry young man' of yesteryears, when asked about how life was on the wrong side of 60, said he worked hard to keep fit. He said he now had a gym at home, where he exercised everyday and made it a point to eat the right kind of food.

And recalling the words of his late father, famous Hindi poet Harivanshrai Bachchan, he said he never dwelled on his achievements, but as his ‘babuji' used to tell him, he considered life to be an endless journey of struggles.