New Delhi. Amitabh Bachchan is the megastar of the century today, but how did he start in the industry? Everyone is aware of this. 10 consecutive films flopped badly one after the other. When no big filmmaker and actor in the industry wanted to work with him. For a moment even Amitabh began to feel that he would hardly make it in the film world, but then a director came to support him, who not only gave him his film, but also a taste of stardom. Megastar of the century.
Even after giving Amitabh Bachchan consecutive flops, he was one of the directors who took big risks in his films, which is known to change the Bollywood landscape. His name is Prakash Mehra. At one time the pair of Prakash Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan topped the list of hit director and actor pairs, but then it happened that the duo never worked together after 1989. After 33 years this mystery has been revealed.
Amitabh’s magic did not work in ‘Jadugar’
This duo gave many films to Hindi cinema. There are blockbuster films like Sharabi, Zanjeer, Lavaris, Mukaddar Ka Sikandar, Hera Pheri, Namak Halal, but the two were never seen together again after the 1989 film ‘Jadugar’. Actually, the movie ‘Jadugar’ did not do well at the box office. Prakash Mehra believed that the film flopped because of Big B. He said about the film in an interview that the story of ‘Jadugar’ was different from other films and was quite unique. Big B was supposed to act a little differently in the film. In this film, he did not change his style and acted like other previous films, due to which the audience did not see anything new in the film and it flopped.
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When the pair didn’t come back in front of the cinematographers, people started making different kinds of stories. Some would say that there was a disagreement over money, some would say that the film flopped. Some people even said that after the movie ‘Jadugar’, the two never even spoke. After 33 years, the director’s son Puneet recently revealed during an interview how his father and Big B had a relationship after the film.
Prakash Mehra did not like to be called Godfather of Amitabh
Puneeth recently said during an interview, “My father used to say that talent meets talent and magic happens.” If someone tells him that he is Amitabh’s godfather, he will get irritated and say ‘Who am I?’ His reply was, ‘Amitabh Bachchan has his talent and I have mine and the rest is luck.’
Why didn’t Amitabh-Prakash Mehra come together after ‘Jadugar’?
Why didn’t the two work together after the film ‘Jadugar’? Answering this question, he said that it was due to luck. Fate brought them together and it also separated them. Puneet said that my father used to say that if I make a film with Amitabh Bachchan and it does not do well at the box office, he will not work with him again. ‘Jadugar’ released on the same day as Manmohan Desai’s ‘Toofan’ and both did not do well.
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First published: September 08, 2023, 12:23 IST