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If there is one love story that one can never have enough of, it has to be Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha’s tumultuous yet spicy love affair. Amitabh Bachchan was already dating Jaya Bachchan when he first met Rekha. At that time, both Amitabh and Jaya were established actors in Bollywood, meanwhile, Rekha, was a happy-go-lucky teenager who used to come late to work. This was also the time that Rekha and Jaya shared the same apartment complex and were cordial with each other. Rekha even had a sweet nickname for Jaya, ‘Didibhai’. Today, on Amitabh Bachchan’s 81st birthday, we look at how Rekha met the superstar via Jaya Bachchan!
An excerpt from Yaseer Uman’s book titled Rekha: The Untold Story revealed that Rekha and Jaya once lived in the same apartment building when the former was just 18 years old. The chapter titled ‘Didibhai’ talks about Rekha and Jaya’s friendship and how it turned sour in a short time.
An excerpt from the book read, “After the success of her first few films, She bought her own flat in Bombay in 1972. Leaving Hotel Ajanta, she shifted to Juhu’s Beach Apartments at age eighteen. In the same apartment building lived the actress Jaya Bhaduri, who had by then firmly established herself as an actress par excellence. She had the range to easily fit the needs of commercial as well as ‘meaningful’ cinema. This was why she was counted amongst the most versatile, important, and serious actors of that time. Rekha and Jaya began their film careers around the same time. Their growth trajectories as actors, however, were starkly different.”
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