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Moushumi Chatterjee has been interacting with a lot of journalists of late. In an interview with Filmfare, the veteran spilled the beans on Amitabh Bachchan, with whom she worked the last time in the 2015 Piku.
Chatterjee said, “Amitabh Bachchan struggled a lot and became big after a lot of hard work. But I won’t say if he became big for the better. When you receive so much, you behave very differently. You won’t even be able to think about helping others.”
She added, “His brother Ajitabh used to arrange for a car which would pick up Bachchan from the sets. He used to be a very quiet person, sit alone, and have lunch with the hairdresser.”
The actress continued, “Amitabh Bachchan is a very intelligent man. He always uses politically right words. I sometimes pity him because I think most of the time he is only performing because that is all that he knows. I might be wrong but that’s how I feel about him. It is because of his image. He has a huge image, which nobody else has managed to achieve.”
Moushumi Chatterjee on Rekha
The veteran said, “Rekha used to think I’m controlling Vinod Mehra’s life. Because she is sitting in his house, and (Vinod’s) mother used to tell me, ‘Indu, Vinod ki cupboard mein se envelope nikal do’ (Indu, take the envelope out from Vinod’s cupboard). So naturally, she used to not like it.”
Chatterjee added, “She used to make faces while seeing me, as if she doesn’t care. And once, I approached her and asked, ‘How did you do that? Do it again, in front of me?’ She got nervous. I don’t know if she remembers this.”
She also revealed, “She got fed up playing the second woman. She insisted to Raj Khosla, ‘Give me the role of Dassi, I should be Sanjeev Kumar’s wife. Let her do this one.’ I remember all his assistants, Sagar and others, they were laughing. He was a little high when she made that request, so he just said, ‘Mereko poora story change karna padega’ (I’ll have to change the entire story).”