Actor Aanjjan Srivastav has opened up about a turbulent chapter in Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan’s life, when the iconic actor faced financial distress during the late 1980s and 1990s. The management of the bank asked Jaya Bachchan to be the guarantor, and she swiftly acted without thinking twice.Amitabh Bachchan‘s financial crisisBachchan took a break from cinema to enter politics in the 1980s and found himself caught in the crossfire of the Bofors scandal in 1987. The controversy forced him to resign from politics and triggered a tough period in his professional journey.
Aanjjan Srivastav’s meeting with Amitabh Bachchan amid the financial issuesIn a recent conversation with Friday Talkies, Aanjjan said that the bank he worked with was concerned about outstanding dues and asked him to personally get in touch with Bachchan. The actor remembered visiting Bachchan on a film set at Kamalistan Studios along with his bank manager. “He said (gestures with folded hands), ‘Main aapke ek ek paise vapas kar dunga (I will return every penny I owe you)’. And he did. He is a man of his word,” Aanjjan shared.He also shared that the bank’s head office insisted on making Jaya Bachchan the guarantor. “The head office said that they wanted Jaya’s guarantee, and she also signed.”Aanjjan Srivastav about Amitabh Bachchan getting misled by his teamIn an old interview with Rajshri Unplugged, Aanjjan opened up about Amitabh’s company ABCL struggling to thrive due to the financial crisis. He believed Bachchan was being misled by those managing his finances. When a bank considered taking legal action against him, Aanjjan intervened personally. “When the ABCL account was there, he (Amitabh) was trapped in it. We used to go to his office from the bank to take statements, and people were bluffing him badly. This is what my manager and I realised,” he shared.
