In an interview on the SAM YouTube channel, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar mirrored on how Rajesh Khanna loved a short reign as Bollywood’s prime star, earlier than the ‘unbelievably good actor’ Amitabh took over the highlight.
Javed reminisced a few time when Rajesh Khanna was so in style that even kids appeared to acknowledge his title earlier than saying ‘mumma’ or ‘papa’. Nevertheless, his immense success was short-lived. Akhtar shared that it turned difficult to collaborate with Khanna because of the overwhelming presence of sycophants round him, main them to half methods professionally. Later, they rekindled their friendship and labored collectively on a movie. Akhtar defined that the sort of scripts he and Salim Khan had been writing had been higher fitted to somebody like Amitabh Bachchan, who, though not but a famous person, was an extremely gifted actor. They believed he was good for his or her character, Vijay.
Akhtar, reflecting on his time writing for Rajesh Khanna in movies like Haathi Mere Saathi and Andaz, defined the distinction in working with actors like Amitabh Bachchan or Dilip Kumar. He famous that with such gifted actors, writers may confidently give them difficult scenes, realizing they might ship flawlessly. In distinction, with actors of restricted expertise, the writing needed to be simplified. Akhtar emphasised that Bachchan, particularly, may deal with any scene or dialogue with ease, making even probably the most complicated traces really feel pure.
Bachchan starred in a number of iconic Salim-Javed movies like Sholay, Don, and Deewaar. In a latest interview with NDTV, Salim Khan mirrored on the second when Javed Akhtar expressed his need to separate their partnership. Salim revealed that if there had been one particular person able to stopping the cut up, it could have been Amitabh, given his shut affiliation with each writers and their shared success.
