Javed Akhtar says it was a risk to cast Amitabh Bachchan for ‘Zanjeer’, recalls how him and Salim Khan fought to get their deserved pay: ‘A super-duper hit film with a super-duper flop actor’
Javed Akhtar says it was a risk to cast Amitabh Bachchan for ‘Zanjeer’, recalls how him and Salim Khan fought to get their deserved pay: ‘A super-duper hit film with a super-duper flop actor’
Before ‘Zanjeer’ catapulted Amitabh Bachchan to stardom, he faced a string of flops. Salim-Javed, the writers behind ‘Zanjeer’, revealed that despite its success, they struggled for nine months to find work due to their demand for fair compensation.
