That movie which in all probability each teen in India has been shy of watching with their mother and father, is popping 20 right this moment. Baghban, an emotional story about kids abandoning their ageing mother and father, struck a chord with the film going viewers in 2003, and the affect is felt even right this moment.
Hema Malini performed the main function reverse Amitabh Bachchan, and she or he is shocked once we attain out to her concerning the movie. “Aisa lagta hai hum abhi shoot karke aaye hain,” she laughs. But she was not satisfied about saying a sure to the function.
“I was not doing too many films at that point, I had reduced the number. Actually, I was just not doing anything. That is when Ravi Chopra (director) came to me and narrated this subject. I was not convinced because I had to play a mother to four elderly boys. I was feeling very awkward ‘main aisa kaise karun, maine aise mother ka role kabhi kiya hi nahi kisi film mein’ Then my mother said ‘if Amitabh Bachchan is doing it, then you can also do it, no problem. He is opposite you’, I said yes,” shares the 74-year-old.
Malini was assured that she received’t be made to appear to be ‘an old woman with white hair’ and be introduced the way in which she was in actual life. Malini recollects the romantic scenes she shot with Bachchan, particularly the music Main Yahaan Tu Wahaan. “It was BR Chopra sahab’s (producer) dream, to make this film. He gave me a narration before the shoot started. He was watching all the scenes from day one. I think this must have been the romance he had at his home, with his partner. He wanted to bring all those things out,” she says.
While the making of the movie, the one factor which stood out for her was Bachchan’s jovial nature. Having beforehand labored in movies reminiscent of Sholay (1975), she narrates, “Sabne khushi khushi kaam kiya iss film mein. When Amit ji used to enter the set, he would bring so much light, all the workers used to light up and say ‘arre Amit ji aa gaye’ , unko lagta tha ab koi mazaak karenge. He used to be so jovial, fun loving. I don’t think he is like that anymore. Pata nahi, thoda serious ho gaye hain aaj kal.”
Appreciating the music and mourning the lack of the person behind it, late music composer Aadesh Srivastava (together with Uttam Singh), Malini provides that she bought to know the movie is a hit when her daughter Esha Deol was working with Bachchan’s son Abhishek in Dus. “They would keep telling me picture hit ho gayi hai, mujhe lagta tha mazaak kar rahe hain, but it turned out to be a fact,” she smiles.
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