Mumbai: Actress-politician Jaya Bachchan, reflecting on how relationships have evolved across generations, opened up about her 52-year-old marriage to Amitabh Bachchan, and even joked that he might call it “the biggest mistake of his life.”
In her latest conversation on Mojo Story, Jaya emphasised that legality doesn’t define a relationship.
“Delhi ka ladoo hai, khao toh mushkil, na khao toh mushkil. (It is Delhi’s laddoo, either you eat or not, you are in trouble) Just enjoy life. You don’t have to make it official (signals with a pen and paper)… we didn’t even sign t
he register in old times. Later on, we found out that we had to sign it, and we signed the register after what I don’t know how many years of our marriage. That means we were living illegally,” the actress-turned-politician said.
Jaya went on to state that she doesn’t want her granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda to rush into marriage, but enjoy her life and career.
Asked if Amitabh shares the same views on marriage, she joked, “I have not asked him. He might say that ‘biggest mistake of my life’, but I don’t want to hear that.”
Admitting that she fell for Amitabh instantly, she added, “Do you have to dig into old wounds? I have been married for the last 52 years to the same man. Isse jada pyaar main nahin kar sakti hoon. (I can’t love more than that). It will sound outdated for me to say that you shouldn’t get married… It was love at first sight.”Bottom of Form
Jaya and Amitabh tied the knot in 1973 and are parents to Abhishek Bachchan and Shweta Bachchan.