Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan are the epitome of pure love, who have time and again reinstated our faith in marriage with their beautiful bond. After falling in love with Jaya during the movie, Ek Nazar, the two had a chat mangni, pat vyaah on June 3, 1973. And in all these years, this adorable couple has sailed through many ups and downs in their relationship.
In the world of glamour, it is natural if an actor’s name is linked to any of his co-actress and Amitabh too was linked to many of his on-screen heroines. From Zeenat Aman, Smita Patil to Parveen Babi, Amitabh has been linked to many of his heroines. But the one name that is still associated with him is Rekha. In many of her interviews, Rekha herself had admitted her love and devotion towards him.
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After three years of his wedding, rumours about Amitabh Bachchan’s affair with his co-star, Rekha had started making rounds impacting his relationship with Jaya Bachchan. In a throwback interview with Stardust, Rekha had revealed that she saw Jaya crying while watching Amitabh’s romantic scenes with her in the film, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. Talking about the incidence, Rekha had said:
“Once I was looking at the whole (Bachchan) family through the projection room when they came to see the trial show of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. Jaya was sitting in the front row and he (Amitabh) and his parents were in the row behind her. They couldn’t see her as clearly as I could. And during our love scenes, I could see tears pouring down her face.”
In the same interview, Rekha had also mentioned that Mr Bachchan had told producers that he would not work with her. When Rekha had enquired the same to Mr Bachchan, he didn’t say a word to her. In her words:
“A week later (after the trial show of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar), everybody in the industry was telling me that he (Amitabh Bachchan) has made it clear to his producers that he was not going to work with me. Everybody else informed me about it but he didn’t say a word on the subject. When I tried to question him about it, he said, I am not going to say a word. Don’t ask me about it.”
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Speculations about Rekha and Amitabh’s affair had started on the sets of the film, Do Anjane, and it was one of the most controversial affairs of that time. It is even said that Yash Chopra’s film, Silsila was literally the on-screen portrayal of Amitabh, Jaya and Rekha’s love triangle.
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Do you know the reason behind Jaya Bachchan agreeing to the film, Silsila? Throughout the narration, Jaya was disinterested in working in this film but it was the climax scene which had made her say ‘yes’. Although the film had dealt with the bold subject of an extra-marital affair, its climax was quite the opposite. It had shown a ‘nuptial reunion’, where the husband, Amit Malhotra (Amitabh Bachchan) comes back to his wife, Shobha Malhotra (Jaya), leaving behind his extra-marital affair with Chandni (Rekha).
Well, all’s well that ends well! While Amitabh is happily married to Jaya, Rekha is happy in her own life.
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