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Vidhu Vinod Chopra recalls gifting Rolls Royce worth Rs 4.5 crore to Amitabh Bachchan: ‘He tolerated me’
Vidhu Vinod Chopra shared an anecdote where Jaya Bachchan warned Amitabh Bachchan about working with the director.

Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra has opened up about the time when he and Amitabh Bachchan fought on the sets on Eklavya, and the filmmaker later gifted him an expensive luxury car. The director also shared what Jaya Bachchan thought about the idea of him and Big B collaborating on the same film.
In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Vidhu said that Jaya was very confident that Amitabh and him were going to have a fight on the set. “When we were making Eklavya, Amitabh Bachchan came to the sets with one suitcase for a schedule of two months. I asked, ‘Amit, you travel very light?’ He said, ‘No, Jaya told me ‘more than one week you cannot stand Vinod’.”
Vinod then said that within 10 days, he and Amitabh fought. “But because he did not leave and completed the whole film, I gifted him a Rolls Royce worth Rs 4.5 crore, because he tolerated me and did a great work in the film.” It was later reported that Amitabh sold his Rolls Royce Phantom for an undisclosed sum in 2019.
In a previous interview, Vidhu shared that when he had a disagreement with Amitabh, he worried Amitabh might quit the film. But the next day, Amitabh showed up on set, and he eventually completed the film with the same enthusiasm. However, when his mother found out, she scolded him, pointing out that he was giving costly cars to others while driving a simple Maruti van himself.
Eklavya may not have performed well at the box office, but it gained recognition as India’s official entry to the Oscars. The film also starred Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjay Dutt and Boman Irani among others. Vidhu recently helmed the film 12th Fail. The film stars Vikrant Massey, Medha Shankar, Anant V Joshi, Anshumaan Pushkar, and Priyanshu Chatterjee among others and has been receiving a lot of acclaim.

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