Amar Singh congratulates Amitabh Bachchan for National Award

See Pics: Kangana Ranaut, Amitabh Bachchan, Kabir Khan receive National Awards in Delhi, Aishwarya accompanies her Pa

Singh also said that the the 73-year-old worked with directors of different eras and this makes him different.

“Other than Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra, he kept working with new directors like R. Balki. Despite being a 70-year-old, he tried to convince a father-in-law to love a girl of the age of his daughter in ‘Cheeni Kum’ and he did that with Jiah Khan in ‘Nishabd’ as well,” he said.

Also read: Kangana Ranaut, Amitabh Bachchan receive National Awards, see pic 

Singh was very close to the Bachchan family for a substantial amount of years till some years back, and then had a fallout later on. Bachchan’s name has also come up in the controversial Panama papers leak of tax documents of offshore companies and accounts of the rich.

When asked about it, Singh said: “Amitabh Bachchan’s names are there in the Panama papers or not that you should ask the government. It’s them to see if it is legal or illegal. I’m neither the Chief Minister or Prime Minister.”

Bachchan’s daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s name has also cropped up in the controversial list.