New York has been seeing a lot of the Big B [ Images ] recently.

On April 8, the Lincoln Centre began its annual retrospective, this year revolving around Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan [ Images ].

Now, the actor has been keeping New York photographers busy with his efforts to promote his new film, Waqt: The Race Against Time.

The film is directed by Vipul Amritlal Shah and also stars Akshay Kumar [ Images ], Priyanka Chopra [ Images ], and Shefali Shah, the director's wife, who plays Amitabh's spouse in the film.

Bachchan describes Waqt, his fourth film with Akshay Kumar, as a unique family drama.

Here is Amitabh at the press conference for the forthcoming film at the Millenium UN Plaza Hotel, on New York's East 44th Street.

Photograph: Paresh Gandhi