Jaya Bachchan Cried After Watching Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha's Love Scenes: 'Tears Pouring Down...'
Rekha once claimed that Jaya Bachchan cried while watching her intimate scene with Amitabh Bachchan in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, after which Big B decided not to work with her again.
In 1970, rumours of a romance between Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha made headlines. While Big B always remained tight-lipped on the matter, Rekha has spoken about it in several interviews over the years.
Back in 1978, when one of Amitabh and Rekha's last films together, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar released, the Umrao Jaan actor claimed to have witnessed Jaya Bachchan crying while watching their intimate scene.
In an interview with Stardust magazine, Rekha mentioned that she saw tears rolling down Jaya's cheeks while watching the film Muqaddar Ka Sikandar and 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."
She further continued that only after the trial show did she hear whispers about Amitabh Bachchan's decision to not work with her anymore. The veteran star further added, 'A week later, everybody in the industry was telling me that he had made it clear to his producers that he was not going to work with me."
These rumours about Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan gave wind to another news piece which claimed that Jaya's friendship with Rekha was strained for life. But contrary to the rumours, Rekha, in an interview with Simi Garewal, shared, 'Didibhai (Jaya) is much more mature, much more together. I've yet to come across a woman who is so together. She's got so much dignity, so much class. She's got a lot of strength. I admire that woman. We had an association before the so-called rumours and the media messed up the whole image. We were living in the same building and we had a relationship. She was my Didibhai, she still is – no matter what happens, nobody can take that away. Thank God she realises that too."
Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan's last film together was Silsila (1981), directed by Yash Chopra. It remains one of the most talked-about films in Hindi cinema, largely due to the off-screen rumours surrounding Rekha, Amitabh, and Jaya Bachchan.
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