Amitabh Bachchan Rejecting Mr India For This Reason Ultimately Ended The Jodi Of Salim Khan & Javed Akhtar?

Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan were considered the greatest writing duo of their time. They have delivered multiple hit scripts in the past, some of which hold a huge significance in the history of Bollywood. When the two artists decided to split and go forth individually, there were numerous speculations in tabloids and magazines about what could have gone wrong between them. Some of the reports even suggest that Amitabh Bachchan and the blockbuster film Mr India were a part of Salim-Javed’s story.

For the unversed, Salim and Javed split up in June 1981 after working on numerous Bollywood films together including the screenplay of hit movies like Sholay, Trishul, and Yaadon Ki Baaraat, amongst others. They also went on to win several prestigious awards for their work before Salim shifted to London for a while and Javed started working as a solo artist.

In the year 2015, Scroll.in had published an excerpt from the book, Written By Salim-Javed: The Story of Hindi Cinema’s Greatest Screenwriters, by Diptakirti Chaudhri. The book narrated the sequence of events from Salim Khan’s perspective, with the help of an interview done by Anita Padhye for the book Yahi Rang.