But Bachchan did worry about the fate of the producers who had backed the project. But now he was an overnight sensation, and reviving Ek Tha Chandar Ek Thi Sudha made no sense. Bachchan wasn’t a bankable star back in 1969. The fun is, he was one of the factors why the money on the project had dried up. A few years passed by, and Bachchan’s stock was already on the rise. There were some attempts to complete the film, but to no avail. The song, “ Ye chehra ye zulfein/ Tauba tauba”, surfaced many years later on YouTube. One of the songs featured Amit and Rekha, likely their first on-screen appearance. Something similar happened to Ek Tha Chandar Ek Thi Sudha, and the film could not be completed. It wasn’t uncommon back in the day to stop shooting a film midway if the money-taps ran dry. Everyone knew the son of poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, which required a certain amount of clandestinity.īut the shooting was halted abruptly after making a few songs and some scenes. The shoot began on the streets of Allahabad, Bachchan’s home ground. The original cast included Rekha, Jaya Bhaduri and Amitabh Bachchan. So, the adaptation was named after characters of the novel, Chandar and Sudha. But a Jitendra-starrer film of that name had already released in 1967. It was based on Hindi novelist Dharmvir Bharti’s novel Gunahon Ka Devta. It was around this time that he came upon a project called Ek Tha Chandar Ek Thi Sudha. While his debut Saat Hindustani (1969) brought critical acclaim, producers didn’t exactly line up outside his door. There was a time when everyone in the industry was convinced that this lanky man with a baritone didn’t have a future in this line of work. He was the only one with a gold-plated guarantee of a massive box office opening. There were others who had their own fan following, but for crores of Indians, he was the numero uno star.
His impact can be summarized in one stray phrase used in the cover story of the 1984 issue of a magazine: “One man sneezes and the industry catches a cold”.
It’s borderline redundant to go on about how significant Amitabh Bachchan has been in the grand scheme of Hindi cinema and all that it entails.
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