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Jaya Bachchan is undoubtedly a great actress and has played many such characters which proved to be important milestones in her career. She did great films like ‘Guddi’, ‘Abhimaan’, ‘Mili’ and ‘Anamika’ and became the first choice of every producer-director. But Jaya Bachchan has also been involved in a lot of controversies. She still gets into controversies due to her anger and statements. Jaya is now considered the most irritable actress in Bollywood. Sometimes she gets angry at fans and sometimes at paparazzi. Her rivalry with some actresses was also in the news. It is said that Jaya had also got two heroines removed from some films. We are telling you about this on Jaya Bachchan’s 77th birthday. Also, let us know about her controversies:
Let’s talk about the actress whom Jaya Bachchan had removed from a film. This is Moushumi Chatterjee. She was removed from Gulzar’s film ‘Koshish’ and Jaya was signed. Moushumi had even shot for three days for this film which was released in the year 1972.
Moushumi Chatterjee talked about this in an interview with ‘Laharen Retro’ in the year 2023. She said, ‘I shot for three days and I could see what manipulations were done in those three days. I could see Jaya Bachchan’s secretary. She used to be in the office from morning till night. And suddenly Gulzar da, whom I knew from the time of ‘Geetanjali’, and who used to teach Urdu to my mother-in-law, said that you have to shoot till a little late at night from tomorrow.’
According to Moushumi, she told Gulzar that she had recently become a mother and the child was small. She could shoot only in one shift. On this Gulzar said that many other heroines were in the queue to take this role. Then Moushumi Chatterjee left the film and Jaya Bachchan entered.
Another actress who was struck by Jaya Bachchan’s lightning was Parveen Babi. Parveen was earlier a part of ‘Silsila’. She was the original choice. The film also had Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan. But Parveen was removed from the film by the makers on some pretext and then Jaya Bachchan was signed. Actor Ranjit had told ‘ANI’ about this and said, ‘Once she was very upset and crying. I asked her what happened Parveen. We were in Kashmir and I have no problem telling this because it is the truth. A film was made ‘Silsila’ and Parveen Babi was the original heroine, but she was asked to leave the film. And because of a gimmick, they took Rekha and Jaya Bhaduri in the film.
These were the actresses who lost their films because of Jaya, but actress Sonali Bendre was ignored by Jaya as soon as she saw her at an event. Fans had severely criticized Jaya for this. However, Sonali clarified in an interview with iDiva and said, “Whenever you go to any function, there is a whole army of paparazzi. There are tapes installed saying that you will stop here, you will stop here and you will go. You stopped at the first place when you stood, someone said they wanted your solo. Till then she was going towards the next mark and you caught her in the middle, so it seems as if I came and she left.
Now let’s talk about other controversies of Jaya Bachchan. The biggest controversy happened when there was an event in the film ‘Drona’ in 2008, in which Jaya said that we are people of UP, so we should talk in Hindi. This created a ruckus. Shiv Sena and MNS criticized Jaya and announced to ban on the films of the entire Bachchan family. Later Amitabh Bachchan had to apologize on behalf of Jaya by holding a press conference.
Jaya Bachchan has had many controversies with the paparazzi. She neither likes this culture nor the photographers. Once when Jaya and Aishwarya were together, the paparazzi started shouting ‘Aish Ash’. But Jaya got angry and shouted, ‘Aish Ash, does she study in your class?’
And now recently Jaya has come under fire for shaking off a woman’s hand at actor Manoj Kumar’s prayer meeting. People got very angry after watching her video. In the viral video, a woman was seen patting Jaya’s shoulder. Jaya turned back and angrily shook off her hand.
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