When Rekha denied any rift with Jaya Bachchan, confessed her love for Amitabh: ‘Yet to come across a woman who is..’

Rekha also dismissed speculation that there was a rift with Jaya Bachchan despite all the gossip. “Didibhai is much more mature, much more together,” Rekha had said about Jaya. “I’ve yet to come across a woman who is so together. She’s got so much dignity, so much class. She’s got a lot of strength. I admire that woman. We had an association before the so-called rumours and the media messed up the whole image. We were living in the same building and we had a relationship.She was my Didibhai, she still is – no matter what happens nobody can take that away. Thank God she realises that too. Whenever we meet she’s very sweet – she’s not just civil, she’s just herself,” she had said.

Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Rekha worked together in Silsila, made by Yash Chopra. The filmmaker had revealed in a chat with Shah Rukh Khan that he had originally cast Smita Patil and Parveen Babi as female leads but changed the casting later.