Moushumi Chatterjee takes a dig at Jaya Bachchan in front of photographers: ‘I am a much better person than Jaya…’

Earlier in Koffee With Karan, Jaya Bachchan’s daughter Shweta Bachchan spoke on her mother’s behaviour with the paparazzi. “She gets very claustrophobic when there are too many people around her. She also doesn’t like it when people take her pictures without asking her. She comes from that school of thought,” she had said.

In a earlier interview with Lehren TV, Moushumi Chatterjee recalled an incident from 1972 when she was replaced by Jaya Bachchan in Gulzar’s directorial Koshish after shooting for three days.

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 was there from morning to night at the office. And all of a sudden Gulzar da, whom I had known since Geetanjali and who used to teach my mother-in-law Urdu, said, ‘You have got to shoot from tomorrow to little late in the night.’ I had just had a baby and I said, ‘I cannot, I have a child at home. I can only shoot in one shift.’ Then he said in front of everybody, ‘You know so many actresses are there in line to take that spot.’ I got triggered, and I said, ‘Then take them.’ From then on, his assistant Daddu Sippy used to call me ‘Ma.’”

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