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Hema Malini and Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Baghban was archetypal offered to Dilip Kumar.
Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini-starrer Baghban released 21 years ago and was a immense deed astatine the time. The communicative of an ageing mates who decides to abstracted to spend clip with their ungrateful children struck a chord with the masses and proved to beryllium an antithetic deed arsenic films with seasoned stars successful pb roles weren’t seen arsenic commercially viable successful those days. But, the movie was archetypal offered to Dilip Kumar backmost successful the 1970s.
In an earlier chat with Rediff, Baghban manager Ravi Chopra, who passed distant successful 2014, said that his father, precocious filmmaker BR Chopra discussed the movie with Dilip Kumar galore decades ago. He shared that erstwhile helium was shooting for his debut movie Zameer with Bachchan and Saira Banu, Dilip had loaned them his house’s plot for 1 of the shoots. “During the shooting, Dad and Dilip uncle were sitting and chatting. That’s erstwhile helium narrated the publication to Dilip uncle, who loved it. But Dad was engaged with different films and Dilip uncle wanted to commencement different movie first.”
Ravi’s woman Renu Chopra aboriginal shared that the movie was to beryllium made with Dilip Kumar and Rakhee, with BR Chopra directing it but destiny had different plans. “My father-in-law was expected to marque that movie with Dilip Kumar and Rakhee, but she opted retired and aboriginal helium fell ill. It ne'er got made,” she told The Times of India successful 2021. She recalled that Ravi had invited Dilip Kumar and Saira Banu for the muhurat of the movie but Dilip Kumar wasn’t good astatine the clip truthful helium could not be the function. She shared that erstwhile they went to invitation the seasoned actor, Saira remembered the communicative of the movie successful large item arsenic “she was impressed with the romance of the aged couple.”
Achala Nagar, who co-wrote the dialogues and the screenplay of the film, said that Dilip Kumar didn’t privation to bash the movie arsenic galore of his co-stars similar Nargis and Meena Kumari were nary more, and Rakhee too, had taken a interruption from films. She told PTI, “When BR Chopra approached Kumar for the role, helium had said that neither Nargis, nor Meena Kumari was alive… adjacent Raakhee had stopped moving successful films. He rejected the relation due to the fact that helium believed that nary modern histrion was suitable to play the relation other him.” Dilip Kumar and Rakhee played hubby and woman successful Shakti.
Baghban besides starred Salman Khan, Mahima Chaudhry, Samir Soni, Divya Dutta among others.
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