Back in the day, late Bollywood actor Sridevi was among the most celebrated actors of Hindi cinema, and so was Amitabh Bachchan. While every other actor wished to share the screen with Bachchan to boost their career, Sridevi was adamant about not playing second fiddle to Amitabh Bachchan as she wanted to be a part of women-centric films. So, it took Bachchan a truck full of roses to convince her to share the screen with him in the 1992 film Khuda Gawah.
In the book, ‘Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess’ – written by Satyarth Nayak, late choreographer Saroj Khan, who was working on a song with Sridevi, remembered the stunning visual when the actor was showered with flowers, sent by senior Bachchan.
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She said, “We were filming a song when the truck arrived. They made Sridevi stand near it and the whole carrier tilted over, showering roses on her. It was quite a visual.” The beautiful gesture left an impact on Sridevi, but she was still not convinced as she felt there wasn’t enough for her to do. She then put a condition saying that she will star with Big B in a film where she will play the role of both, Amitabh’s wife and daughter. Filmmakers Manoj Desai and Mukul Anand gave in to her condition and the two stars were cast together in Khuda Gawah, one of the biggest hits in their filmography.
Before Khuda Gawah, Ramesh Sippy also signed Sridevi and Amitabh Bachchan in his film Ram Ki Seeta Shyam Ki Geeta, where both of them had double roles. Even the song chartbuster “Jumma Chumma” was supposed to be a part of the film. Revealing the placement of the song in the film, Saroj Khan shared in the book, “The sequence had Amitabh as a cop catching a pickpocket Sridevi red-handed. When she asks what she can bribe him with, he asks for a chumma.”
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However, the film never went on floors and the song was later picturised on Amitabh Bachchan and Kimi Katkar in the 1991 film Hum.
The last time the Bollywood buffs got to watch Bachchan and Sridevi together on-screen was in Gauri Shinde’s 2012 film English Vinglish. The film had a special appearance of Bachchan.
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