Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan always maintained a dignified silence on rumours of his affair with Rekha, but the actress never shied away from confessing her love for Big B.
In an interview with Stardust magazine back in 1978, post the release of ‘Muqaddar Ka Sikandar’, Rekha revealed that she saw tears in Jaya Bachchan’s eyes while watching her intimate scenes with Amitabh.
“Once, I was looking at the whole (Bachchan) family through the projection room when they came to see the trial show of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. Jaya was sitting in the front row, and he (Amitabh) and his parents were in the row behind her. They couldn’t see her as clearly as I could. And during our love scenes, I could see tears pouring down her face,” Rekha said.
“A week later, everybody in the industry was telling me that he had made it clear to his producers that he was not going to work with me,” Rekha added.
Reports suggested that Rekha and Jaya’s friendship turned sour after ‘Muqqadar Ka Sikandar’. However, the ‘Umrao Jaan’ actress told Simi Garewal, “Didibhai (Jaya) is much more mature, much more together. I’ve yet to come across a woman who is so together. She’s got so much dignity, so much class. She’s got a lot of strength. I admire that woman. We had an association before the so-called rumours and the media messed up the whole image. We were living in the same building and we had a relationship. She was my Didibhai, she still is – no matter what happens, nobody can take that away. Thank God she realises that too.”
