New Delhi. When Jaya Bachchan got angry with Rajesh Khanna for insulting Amitabh: Bollywood’s first superstar Rajesh Khanna may not be in this world, but he will always be remembered. Rajesh Khanna’s success was no less than a wonder, but did not last long and after a few years, Amitabh Bachchan sat on the throne of superstar in his place. A lot has been written on the relationship between these two superstars, people still talk about both of them. In such a situation, today we are telling you an anecdote related to these two.
Started living with Amitabh
It is said that Rajesh Khanna started feeling insecure because of Amitabh. In fact, after the release of director Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s film ‘Anand’ in 1971, Amitabh Bachchan was praised as a new artist even more than superstar Rajesh Khanna. Since then Rajesh Khanna started living with Amitabh. However, for this film Rajesh Khanna won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor and Amitabh Bachchan for Best Supporting Actor.
Rajesh used to insult often
In the year 1972, Hrishikesh Mukherjee was making the film ‘Bawarchi’ with Rajesh Khanna and Jaya. According to media reports, Amitabh Bachchan (who was not a big star till then) often visited the sets of the film to meet his girlfriend Jaya Bhaduri (now Bachchan), and other friends including Asrani. Then Rajesh Khanna used to insult him often. Some media reports also claimed that once Amitabh reached the sets, he heard Rajesh Khanna calling him wretched in clear words.
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Hearing this, Jaya turned red in anger.
When Jaya Bhaduri heard this, she turned red in anger and could not stay with him. He taunted while passing by Rajesh Khanna – one day it will be seen how big a star this man (Amitabh) will become. Within a few years, Jaya’s words proved to be true and Rajesh Khanna’s career started going downhill and Amitabh’s film star started shining. He even became the next superstar and superhero.
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