Would AB have married Rekha? - Page 3

What happened to AB on the coolie set? What kind of accident? And was Jaya in the film?

The version I heard, was that Jaya helped him a lot when AB started to do films in bollywood. So he felt like he owed her something. So he married her!

Same question as Lensa...what accident?

This is what happened:

On 26 July 1982, while filming Coolie in the University Campus in Bangalore, Bachchan suffered a near fatal intestinal injury during the filming of a fight scene with co-actor Puneet Issar.^[17] Bachchan was performing his own stunts in the film and one scene required him to fall onto a table and then on the ground. However as he jumped towards the table, the corner of the table struck his abdomen, resulting in a splenic rupture from which he lost a significant amount of blood. He required an emergency splenectomy and remained critically ill in hospital for many months, at times close to death. The public response included prayers in temples and offers to sacrifice limbs to save him, while later, there were long queues of well-wishing fans outside the hospital where he was recuperating.^[18] Nevertheless, he spent many months recovering and resumed filming later that year after a long period of recuperation. The film was released in 1983, and partly due to the huge publicity of Bachchan's accident, the film was a box office success.^[19]

The director, Manmohan Desai, altered the ending of Coolie after Bachchan's accident. Bachchan's character was originally intended to have been killed off but after the change of script, the character lived in the end. It would have been inappropriate, said Desai, for the man who had just fended off death in real life to be killed on screen. Also, in the released film the footage of the fight scene is frozen at the critical moment, and a caption appears onscreen marking this as the instant of the actor's injury and the ensuing publicity of the accident.^[18]

Later, he was diagnosed with Myasthenia gravis. His illness made him feel weak both mentally and physically and he decided to quit films and venture into politics. At this time he became pessimistic, expressing concern with how a new film would be received. Before every release he would negatively state, "Yeh film to flop hogi!" ("This film will flop").

Originally posted by: beboholic

What happened to AB on the coolie set? What kind of accident? And was Jaya in the film?

The version I heard, was that Jaya helped him a lot when AB started to do films in bollywood. So he felt like he owed her something. So he married her!

No, Jaya never helped get him films, she was just supportive of him from his early days. AB and Jaya met, fell in love and got married way before Rekha came into the picture.

Some say their affair still continues today. I've heard that accomodation is still often arranged for Rekha to stay, whenever Amitabh is filming away from home.

From pictures, Jaya and Amitabh often appear to be a couple in a loveless marriage.

Originally posted by: bollygossipgirl

Some say their affair still continues today. I've heard that accomodation is still often arranged for Rekha to stay, whenever Amitabh is filming away from home.

From pictures, Jaya and Amitabh often appear to be a couple in a loveless marriage.

Yh they do sometimes it just seems as if they are just smiling for the cameras but there is nothing between them😕

Didn't know about the coolie incident but now I know. It's sad if AB & Jaya have a loveless marriage they look good together but I do have to admit I like the AB & Rekha jodi more as they have this awesome chemistry in all their movies especially Silsila.

She loved it , still loves him and will always do because she never got him in the first place.
It just shows, the way she looks at him...it's just love.
Jaya knew about their affair still she decided to stay for the children.
That's what i've heard