Mumbai: Actor and politician Jaya Bachchan recently grabbed attention after she stopped to pick up a discarded bottle from the roadside while heading to an event.
A video circulating on social media shows the veteran actor, dressed in a cream-coloured outfit, bending down to retrieve a plastic bottle lying by the roadside.
While Jaya’s simple gesture caught attention, eagle-eyed netizens noticed another detail in the video.
Her phone screen offered a glimpse of her wallpaper, which appeared to feature her grandchildren, Navya Naveli Nanda and Agastya Nanda.
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The veteran actor has often made headlines for her exchanges with paparazzi.
While she occasionally acknowledges photographers, she has also been vocal about her displeasure over intrusive photography and the invasion of personal space.
In one such incident, Jaya was walking alongside her granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda when a paparazzo stumbled while attempting to photograph her.
Reacting to the incident, Jaya remarked, “Serves you right. I hope you double up and fall.” She also questioned the photographers about the media organisations they represented.
On another occasion, the following year, Jaya was spotted losing her cool at the airport after noticing a man filming her.
“Please don’t take my picture. You don’t understand English?” she asked him. As security personnel intervened, the actor reportedly remarked that people behaving in such a manner should be fired.
A celebrated star of Bollywood’s retro era, Jaya was among the leading female actors of her generation.
At the height of her career, she delivered several critically acclaimed performances and established herself as one of Hindi cinema’s most respected actresses.
Jaya married superstar Amitabh Bachchan in 1973 and subsequently took a step back from films to focus on her family and raising their children, Shweta Bachchan Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan.