Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha often talks about his feud with his once-friend Amitabh Bachchan. He recently remembered the day on the set of Yash Chopra’s 1979 film Kala Patthar where it all began. The veteran actor now calls it ‘immaturity’, but back then, he admits it was seen as “arrogance”.
In a recent chat with Zoom, Shatrughan Sinha shared that a fight sequence in Kala Patthar was altered in favour of Bachchan which did not go down well with him. Recalling the incident, he said, “It was not intentional. We were shooting amicably. There was a fight scene between me and Amitabh which had choreographed by fight master Shetty. While fighting, at one point, my dupe falls and his dupe puts a spade on my dupe’s neck. I was watching all of it while sitting in a corner because I don’t interfere in a film’s shooting.”
Sinha admitted there was a bit of a disagreement with Amitabh Bachchan back then, even though they were friends during their early struggles. “We have been friends since our struggle days. But in those days, ab romanch ka chakkar raha ho ya romance ka chakkar raha ho, uss samay kuch hua.. (Now whether it was due to romance or thrill, but something happened at that time). I told them this was not in the script but Amitabh’s team approved of the scene,” said the actor.
Standing up for himself, he said, “I told them, ‘ye toh baat hui nahi thi (this is not what we discussed). What if Shashi Kapoor takes longer to come to stop the fight, my character will be killed, then what is the point of him returning after the interval? Ab isko siddhant bole ya arrogance bole..aur vo defeat na hone vala character toh defeat ho gaya yahan pe.. ispe 4-6 ghanta hua, kuch logon ko pasand nahi aayi ye baat (Now call it principles or arrogance, but the undefeatable character was defeated. The shooting was stalled for 4-6 hours and a few people didn’t like it). Ultimately they changed it and the decision about who is stronger between us could not be made, which was happening in the earlier scenario.”
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