The filmmaker also recalled the time when he met Big B for the first time in 1977 on the sets of a Hrishikesh Mukherjee film, mostly ‘Alaap’
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Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra is fresh off the success of his film 12th Fail starring Vikrant Massey. And in an interview recently, the eccentric director recalled the time when he met Amitabh Bachchan for the first time in 1977 on the sets of a Hrishikesh Mukherjee film, mostly ‘Alaap’.
He revealed, “Now, Amitabh, Hrishi da, and Rekha are all busy working, and I notice there’s some argument happening. Around 4, I started to feel that he wouldn’t get the time to watch my film. A little while later, I left. I was sitting outside, and I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Amitabh Bachchan. He asked, ‘You have the booking till 5? Let’s go.”
He added, “He asked if he could bring a friend along with him, and the friend was Rekha. He was angry because of the argument earlier, and we all got into the famous trailer.”
And in an interview with Siddharth Kanan, the filmmaker recalled working with Bachchan on their 2007 collaboration Eklavya: The Royal Guard and how he gifted him a Rolls Royce worth Rs 4.5 crore.
Chopra revealed, “When we were making Eklavya, Amitabh Bachchan came to the sets with one suitcase for a schedule of two months. I asked, ‘Amit, you travel very light?’ He said, ‘No, Jaya told me ‘more than one week you cannot stand Vinod.”
He added, “Because he did not leave and completed the whole film, I gifted him a Rolls Royce worth Rs 4.5 crore, because he tolerated me and did a great work in the film.”
