Originally posted by: Terenaina
I don’t know about old world news but I think both Jaya and big b helped each other. You can’t credit entire big b stardom to Jaya. You guys don’t even do that to rs dp relationship where he became top actor after dating dp and doing films with her. Kareena and other actresses was refusing to work with rs until he became a hit with dp than they want to work with him now
Well that's simply not true. A brief history lesson is in order, it seems.
Jaya was a topper at FTII in Pune. She is one of the few rare mainstream non arty heroines who was actually a trained actor and she was the best in her batch.
I've watched Amitabh say that when he and all his generation of actors were struggling they had heard of Jaya in acting circles because of her talent.
Jaya was then launched in Guddi by Hrishikesh Mukherjee who was like the Hirani of his time and went on to do several films with her and treated her like a protege. By contrast, Big B's first film with him was Anand where he played a two bit side hero to Rajesh Khanna and struggled for years as he gave 17 flops after that.
Whereas Jaya went on to do great work and hit films- Anamika, Koshish, Baawarchi (another Hrishikesh film) and Jawaani Diwani to name a few.
Then she was approached to do Zanjeer with an up and coming Amitabh and he was such a flop actor that all other actresses had said no. But she agreed and basically made his career because the film became a hit and launched his superstardom. They fell in love and became a hit pair- they did Mili, Chupke Chupke and Abhimaan together, again with Hrishikesh Mukherjee till she took a break to have Shweta.
She did take a backseat to have her kids, which a real FEMINIST would never throw shade at because it was a CHOICE she made.
She continued with her social work and became a Samajwadi Party MP. Her career and public life has been illustrious and full of courage. To say otherwise and claim that Big B made her is laughable. He cant even rein in her political views!!
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