Meenakshi Seshadri recalls Amitabh Bachchan’s reaction to her youthful exuberance on Shahenshah set: ‘These newcomers are lost in their own world’

From soaring occurrence to the depths of failure, Amitabh Bachchan has experienced it each successful his 55-year career. Widely regarded arsenic 1 of Indian cinema’s top actors and biggest superstars, his travel has been thing but smooth. Besides films that became monolithic blockbusters, he’s besides been portion of movies which emerged arsenic important box-office disappointments and others that were harshly criticised. At the aforesaid time, helium besides had to measurement distant from acting owed to wellness concerns. In his repertoire, director Tinnu Anand’s vigilante enactment movie Shahenshah (1988) holds a peculiar place. Not lone did it go a large deed and gain him a almighty sobriquet, but it besides marked his triumphant instrumentality to the large surface aft a hiatus owed to his little governmental stint and diagnosis with myasthenia gravis.

Also starring Meenakshi Sheshadri, Pran, Amrish Puri, Prem Chopra and Sharat Saxena, Shahenshah features Bachchan arsenic Inspector Vijay Kumar Srivastava, who leads a treble beingness arsenic the vigilante Shahenshah. His portrayal, on with his iconic dialogues and costume became legendary. Recently, Meenakshi Sheshadri took a travel down representation lane and recalled moving with Bachchan connected the movie and shared a remark helium made astir her youthful exuberance. Mentioning that it was Dimple Kapadia whom Tinnu initially formed arsenic the pistillate pb successful the film, Meenakshi said that the makers recast the heroine and decided to springiness “this caller miss Meenakshi” a try. “They had already recorded the songs ‘Jane Do Mujhe Jana Hai’ and ‘Hey You,’ which became fashionable by then. They re-recorded ‘Hey You,’ the opus featuring my solo point dance. The archetypal way was slower. Then (after casting her), they redid it since I americium a dancer too,” she recalled during a chat with Friday Talkies.

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