Mithun Chakraborty On Being Called ‘Poor Man’s Amitabh Bachchan’: “He Had Big Banner Films… I Had No Banner But My Films Would Do Almost The Same Business”

Mithun Chakraborty was one of the top actors and biggest stars of the 80s. Recently, the actor was in the news for opening up about the hard times he faced during the initial years of his career. A couple of days back, we told you that the actor has opened up about contemplating suicide and facing hardships, so much so that he revealed sleeping on footpaths and roads. In the same interview, he recalled being called poor man’s Amitabh Bachchan’.

The actor recently revealed that while he didn’t have big banner films, his films did the same target as Big B’s big banner films. Mithun Da went on to become a face of TV dance reality shows, including Dance India Dance, where his ‘Kya Baat’ became world famous.

In a recent interview with ETC, when Mithun Chakraborty was asked about Amitabh Bachchan, he called him the biggest star of the century and recalled, “At that time, Bachchan saab used to do big banner films. And I had no banner. But my films would do business with almost that target. People would say he is also Amitabh Bachchan, but poor man’s.” Adding, “At one point, they used to say that they are the two pillars of the industry. I think it was the greatest compliment I could ever get.”