Amjad Khan died on 27 July 1992. It has been 29 years since he passed, but even today we feel his absence in Bollywood. Amitabh Bachchan had a special attachment to Amjad Khan. The reason for this was that once Amjad Khan went into a coma, then it was Amitabh who took him out of the mouth of death.
Amitabh Bachchan and Amjad Khan have worked together in more than two dozen films. Apart from ‘Sholay’, films like ‘Ganga Ki Saugandh’, ‘Kalia’, ‘Satte Pe Satta’, ‘Lawarish’, ‘Muqaddar Ka Sikandar’, ‘Yarana’, ‘Naseeb’ and Mr. Natwarlal are also included. In the year 2016, Amitabh gave an interview to Filmfare. In this, he narrated an interesting anecdote related to Amjad Khan.
Amitabh told that once Amjad Khan was going from Mumbai to Goa with his family for the shoot of the film ‘The Great Gambler’, but on the way his car met with a dangerous accident. Then no one came to his aid, so the actor himself got his family members admitted to a hospital in Panjim. After this accident, he went into a coma. His lungs and ribs were badly injured.
Amitabh says that I had already reached Goa then, but when I got the news of Amjad’s accident, I went to the hospital to meet him. His condition was very serious. He was unconscious and was having trouble breathing. He needed to have surgery as soon as possible. Then the doctors did not advise to take him to Mumbai. However, his family had been shifted to Mumbai by then.
A medical papers had to be signed for Amjad Khan’s operation. It was said in these papers that if any untoward incident occurs during the operation, the doctors will not be responsible for it. Then no one was ready to sign the medical papers for the operation.
When none of the production came forward, Amitabh signed these papers, fulfilling the duty of friendship. Although before that I had taken the consent of his family. Then he was operated upon and a charter plane was arranged to send him to Mumbai.
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