Seasoned screenwriter Salim Khan previously talked about the difficult period in the life of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan. A TV channel shared some old videos of Salim Khan discussing how Big B’s life was affected by those professional setbacks. He said, “I am not a psychiatrist, so I cannot tell what went wrong with Amitabh Bachchan. I am not very close to him at the moment, there was a time I did 14-15 films with him. Sometimes it happens that a person becomes so accustomed to winning that when he loses, he gets shocked.” He went on, “Let me give you an example. When Sri Lanka wins a cricket match, people are surprised by their victory. It also seems unexpected if West Indies loses a game. Amitabh Bachchan developed such a strong addiction to success that even a small setback or failure affected him deeply, and he wasn’t very good at handling it.”
The video seems to date back to Big B’s troubled times in the 1980s or early 1990s. The introduction of VCRs to India in the 1980s as a kind of entertainment technology caused a crisis in the Hindi cinema industry and negatively impacted Big B’s popularity.
During the mid-1980s, Amitabh Bachchan became involved in the purported Bofors scandal, which implicated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi along with multiple other officials from the governments of India and Sweden. Big B, on the other hand, has insisted that the controversy was “planted” around him.
Later, once the Bofors scandal faded from the background, Amitabh Bachchan was overwhelmed by debt as his production company, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited, suffered significant losses. Following the Miss World beauty pageant’s 1996 collapse, the production firm went into debt. Given that he owed creditors over Rs 100 crore, that was Big B’s lowest point. He was saved from dire circumstances by the reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati, which is a quiz based reality show.
Salim Khan, the father of Bollywood actor Salman Khan, and writing partner Javed Akhtar were recently spotted in the streaming documentary Angry Young Men. Everyone felt sentimental when Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar’s Angry Young Men released last month. The renowned writer-duo’s personal and professional life is expertly captured in the documentary series. It also provoked everyone’s curiosity as to why the two, who in the 1970s revolutionised Indian cinema, separated.
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