Amitabh Bachchan, who is called the superhero of Bollywood, ruled the hearts of people by working in films like ‘Zanjeer’, ‘Sholay’ and ‘Deewar’, whose story was written by the duo of Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan. The pair of these two have gifted Hindi cinema with many other great films. After writing the story of more than one film, he also gave many superstars to Bollywood. Out of which the name of Amitabh Bachchan also comes who became a superstar overnight. But once Amitabh Bachchan had said something that Salim and Javed got angry with him.
Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar parted ways in 1981 after writing the script for hit films like ‘Sholay’, ‘Trishul’ and ‘Yaadon Ki Baaraat’. After the breakup, Salim moved to London for some time and Javed started working as a solo artist. Gradually the media also stopped talking about both. But a quote was picked up from a 2015 book titled ‘Written by Salim Javed: The Story of Hindi Cinema’s Greatest Screenwriter’ written by Diptakirti Choudhary, in which Salim Khan mentioned Javed and his pair. This coat was taken from an interview by Anita.
According to the book, Salim-Javed went to Amitabh Bachchan with the script of the film ‘Mr India’, as both felt that Amitabh Bachchan’s voice would be the best for the role of Mr India. But he didn’t like the idea of the film, that the hero had to be mostly invisible. Big B said ‘no’ for this film. Actor Bachchan believed that his fans don’t come to theaters just to hear his voice, but they buy movie tickets to watch his performance.
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Amitabh’s refusal hurt Salim-Javed a lot. After the humiliation and disapproval, Javed Akhtar swore that he and his partner Salim would never work with Amitabh Bachchan. Although Salim Khan did not completely agree about this idea. Many believe that this entire episode itself played a huge role in their separation. However, no one knows yet what is the truth.
So while at an award show, Amitabh Bachchan said that he got the film ‘Sholay’ because of his friend Dharmendra. Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who were present there, were quite surprised after hearing this from Big B. In an interview, Salaam Khan said that this thing of Amitabh has hurt him a lot.
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