Jaya Bachchan was certain that her husband, Amitabh Bachchan, wouldn’t tolerate director Vidhu Vinod Chopra for even a week when he left for the shoot of Eklavya: The Royal Guard. The filmmaker was surprised to see Bachchan traveling light, and when he asked Big B why he didn’t have more luggage with him, the actor said, “Jaya told me that I wouldn’t be able to stand you for more than a week.” Her prediction came true, and Chopra confessed in an interview with Siddharth Kannan that they ended up having arguments shortly afterwards.
“We actually started fighting after a week or 10 days. But he stayed on, and completed the film. I gifted him a car worth Rs 4.5 crore because he tolerated me. It was really humbling for a star of his stature to have to tolerate me, it was big of him,” he said. In a previous interview from 2021, Chopra had recalled the story of presenting Bachchan with the car, and his mother’s reaction to the grand gesture.
