Abhishek Bachchan: ‘Every director I met said they didn’t want to take the responsibility of launching me’

Abhishek Bachchan has detailed his struggles of getting his first movie within the early 2000s. In the Hindi Actors Roundtable on Galatta Plus, Abhishek revealed that regardless of movie magazines proclaiming that Amitabh Bachchan’s son is gearing up for his debut, no filmmaker wished to forged him. (Also Read: Salman Khan and Abhishek Bachchan greet one another with a hug at Anand Pandit’s birthday bash. Watch)

Abhishek Bachchan talks about the struggle to get his first film(PTI)
Abhishek Bachchan talks in regards to the wrestle to get his first movie(PTI)

What Abhishek stated

“There was a lot of chatter, excitement about me joining (the film industry). Not because of me, but because of the kid I was. But contrary to that, people were not interested in working with me. I think I met all the directors I could have met, and they all very respectfully declined saying, ‘We don’t want the responsibility of watching you,’” Abhishek stated on the roundtable.

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Abhishek then recalled how he was forged in his debut film. He started creating a interval movie, then titled Samjhauta Express, with a pal and advert filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who could not get any actor in his directorial debut. Abhishek grew his moustache and beard for the half, however when the 2 pitched it to Amitabh Bachchan for him to provide it beneath his banner ABCL, he stated the script is “bakwas.”

How Abhishek bought his first movie

In order to spice up his son’s morale, Amitabh took Abhishek alongside to the Filmfare Awards, filmmaker JP Dutta noticed him. He’d received the Best Film award the identical evening for the blockbuster Border, and approached Abhishek a few days later for his subsequent, on a Mughal descendant who was the son of Bahadur Shah Zafar. While that movie did not materialise, JP finally forged Abhishek in his 2000 cross-border romance Refugee, reverse fellow newcomer Kareena Kapoor.

Abhishek additionally recalled that after listening to it from his father that the script of Samjhauta Express was “bakwas,” Rakeysh went again dwelling, downed a bottle of alcohol, and “revenge-wrote” the script of Aks, which went on to be his directorial debut and starred Amitabh himself.

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Source web site: www.hindustantimes.com

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