Amitabh Bachchan

Zanjeer eventually came to Amitabh Bachchan and revived his career, as he had endured around 11 flops prior to Zanjeer and was planning to quit films ...

He had already decided to leave the industry and go.” Salim Khan revealed that he had to get Jaya Bachchan on board, who was at the time a top star, in order to fuel the saleability of the film. Ultimately, I suggested to take Jaya Bachchan for the film, and she would do it for him. Zanjeer was the first from the screen-writing duo of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who had changed the scope of Indian cinema with the scripts for the 70s before they split in the 80s.

In conversation with Arbaaz Khan, Salim Khan recalled the time when Amitabh Bachchan's career was saved by Jaya Bachchan. Read on!

Ultimately, I suggested to take Jaya Bachchan for the film, and she would do it for him. I told her the story, and she said ‘there’s nothing for me to do…’ I said there’s nothing much here, but this is for Amitabh Bachchan and this would be explosive for his career.” And it was he who suggested Jaya Bachchan to play opposite Big B as other actresses would have bailed on him. I asked Dilip Kumar later which film he regretted not doing, and he said it was Zanjeer.” But Dilip rejected the film as he thought he won’t have proper space to showcase his performance, and on the other hand, Dev Anand turned it down because the lead had no songs in the film. However, then Zanjeer came down to Amitabh Bachchan, and it became a cult classic in Bollywood.

अमिताभ बच्चन की बेटी श्वेता बच्चन जिस तरीके से हर बार लाइमलाइट से दूर बनी रहती है उसी ...

निखिल नंदा की पढ़ाई के बारे में बात करें तो उन्होंने अमेरिका की यूनिवर्सिटी से मैनेजमेंट और मार्केटिंग की डिग्री हासिल की. इस कंपनी की शुरुआत निखिल के दादाजी हरप्रसाद नंदा ने की थी. इतना ही नहीं आपको बता दें कि श्वेता बच्चन ने साल 1997 में निखिल नंदा से अरेंज मैरिज कर ली थी.