Amitabh Bachchan was shooed away from a US club, returned in a limousine to make an entry with cigar in hand: ‘They welcomed me’

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He continued and said, “I thought of playing a prank. There are big cars called limousines, and whoever arrives in that car is given a lot of respect. We arranged for some money, hired a limousine, dressed up nicely, and arrived at the club. Just before stepping out, I held a cigar in my hand. They welcomed me, thinking I was an influential person, and we got entry. Imagine the power of a cigar; it got us in the club.” The entire audience laughed at the anecdote along with the actor as they shifted their focus back to the game.”

Bachchan has talked a lot about his days before tasting fame in Bollywood, and so have the people who work with him. In an old interview, Javed Akhtar talked about the weak start to Bachchan’s acting career and how no one except his wife, Jaya Bachchan, believed in him. He told Hook Global. “Most of the time, we don’t respect the talent. There were very few people who had great respect for him, even after 11 of his films had flopped in a row. Jaya ji wasn’t his wife then, knew what he (was capable of) and had great respect for his talent. Hrishikesh Mukherjee had great respect for his talent and kept on giving him work. We saw him in a film that didn’t do well, but we could see that he is a volcano, waiting to erupt. He was very good in his worst films also.”