amitabh bachchan has turned 82. The Shahenshah of bollywood has experienced the peak of stardom as well as the downfall in his decades-long career. Although he has now become the superstar of the century. But the journey to reach this point has not been easy for him.
In the 1990s, when his films were flopping one after the other at the box office and he distanced himself from acting to focus on his company, Big B also had to bear criticism. In an interview given to Vir Sanghvi in 1999, amitabh bachchan revealed that when he was traveling somewhere with his parents, people abused him on the road for his acting.
amitabh bachchan was insulted in the middle of the road
Big B had told that one day, when he was going somewhere by car with his parents, people surrounded his car on the road. They leaned towards his window and started insulting him. He recalled, "Those people had put their heads inside the car window and started saying a lot of bad things about his acting. They even abused him." It was even more disappointing for the veteran actor that his parents were sitting in the back seat at that time. amitabh bachchan had said, "You feel bad because your parents are sitting behind you in your car."
Amitabh Bachchan struggled a lot in the initial days
In the same interview, the superstar spoke openly about his initial struggles in Mumbai. Big B had revealed that during his early days in the film industry, people would often stop him on the streets and ask him to leave the city, believing he was wasting his time pursuing an acting career. These comments left him devastated, and at one point, he considered quitting the film industry altogether, saying he would leave it "when people don't want me anymore."
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