Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan will be honoured with the Life Time Achievement Award at

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the Hong Kong's Asian Film Festival.

The 67-year-old actor will be given the award at the festival's Asian Film Awards on March 22.

The veteran will be bestowed with a similar honour at the sixth edition of Muscat International Film Festival.

"Hong Kong's Asian Film Festival now wishes to honor me with similar recognition before the end of the month. And so soon after I leave the picturesque shores of Oman, I should be heading further east to receive what I believe, not so much a personal recognition, but one that comes to me as a member of the film industry of India and indeed India itself," Bachchan wrote on his blog.

"Yet another moment when the Indian tricolor shall earn recognition on foreign soil. A moment of pride for me, a fraternity of which I am a part and a country whose citizenship I cherish," he added.

The organisers said in a statement that the actor will accept the award in person at the annual prize ceremony.

Festival director Shaw Soo Wei said, Bachchan left a mark on world cinema "with tremendous talent, a rigorous work ethic and an uncanny ability to reinvent himself."