Mumbai Veteran screenwriter Salim Khan of the SalimJaved duo once spoke about the bad phase in Bollywood veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan's life.
An old footage shared by Waves shows Salim analysing the impact of failures on Big B's life.
He said, “I am not a psychiatrist, so I cannot tell what went wrong with Amitabh Bachchan. I am not very close to him right now, there was a time. I did 1415 films with him. Sometimes it happens that a person gets so used to winning that when he loses he gets shocked.”
He further said, “Let me give you an example, if Sri Lanka wins a cricket match, it is a surprise that they won. If West Indies loses the match it is also a surprise. Amitabh Bachchan had become so used to winning that even a small failure would have a deep impact on him, and he would look at his failure in a very wrong perspective.”
The video appears to be from the 80s or early 90s, when Big B was in trouble. In the 1980s, technological advancement in entertainment as the VCR made its way to India, creating a crisis in the Hindi film industry, this wave also affected Big B's stardom.
Then in the mid1980s, Big B got embroiled in the Bofors scandal, which involved the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several other members of the Indian and Swedish government. However, Big B, on his part, said that his name was “implicated” in the scandal.
Later when Big B came out of the shadow of the Bofors 'scandal', he got into a huge debt when his production house Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited incurred huge losses. The production house went into debt after the failure of the 1996 edition of the Miss World beauty pageant. That was the worst phase of Big B's life as he had a debt of over Rs 100 crore to pay to creditors. He then managed to get rid of these troubles years later with the earnings from the quizbased reality show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'.
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's father Salim Khan is currently seen in the OTT documentary 'Angry Young Men'.
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