'I don't mind Amitabh-Rekha working together'

Jaya Bachchan is often known for her sharp tongue and a sharper in-your-face attitude. In an interview with People Magazine, she bared her heart about what she exactly thinks about the Amitabh-Rekha romance, SRK, family values, Raj Thackeray and more. Read on...

On Amitabh and his alleged romance with Rekha

Marriages seem to be falling apart these days. How can you keep a man faithful to you for so long, that too such a desirable man?

By just leaving him alone. You must not get too possessive. You can either drive the artist crazy, or help him grow. And if he goes, he was never yours! (Smiles)

But surely all those rumours about affairs must disturb…

(Thinks) You are a human being, you do react. If you react to negativity, you also react to positivity. You are reassured every second by gestures, by looks, by happenings, and that keeps you going. (Thinks more.) A human being at a very vulnerable age and time gets carried away either ways, and if you are sad you are sad, and if you are happy you are happy.

Once and for all: Is there any truth about the affair with Rekha?

If there was any, he would have been somewhere else, na? People liked them as a couple on screen, and that's fine. The media tried linking him with every one of his heroines. My life would have been hell if I had taken it all seriously. We are made of sterner stuff.

Would you mind if they worked together again?

No, why should I mind? But I feel it will be more like a sensation than actual work. And that's a pity because one will miss the opportunity of seeing them together. Both of them probably realise it will go beyond work.

On the Gandhis

There were reports that Sonia Gandhi was concerned about the MNS tirade against you.

I don't know. I suppose being the leader of the party that governs this state, she may have inquired.

Don't you think for emotional reasons, the Gandhi and the Bachchan family should get friendly again?

Well, if you speak of emotions, then one should ask, 'Did it (the break-up) have to happen in the first place?'