How was Shabana Azmi’s casting in ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’? Story of falling into a well

Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi has worked in many films in her career. Have played many types of characters. Sometimes she appeared in the lead role and sometimes as a side character. Shabana Azmi, who has won the National Award five times, has narrated an anecdote related to director Manmohan Desai’s movie ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’. Told why he/she worked in it. Also shared an incident with Neetu Kapoor. Shabana Azmi talked about working in ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ starring Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Parveen Bobby, Neetu Singh and Pran. he/she told in an interview to ‘Zoom’, ‘I had also worked with Manmohan Desai in Parvarish. We were shooting together again. I really enjoyed working with Neetu Singh in Parvarish, and we played sisters who are thieves. Of course, there was also Vinod Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. It was a lot of fun for me.

That’s why Shabana Azmi was cast.

Shabana Azmi further said, ‘Then when I was shooting for another film, Manmohan Desai came to me and told me that he/she was going to produce a film for the first time and wanted me to be a part of it. I said ok. But he/she immediately interrupted and said, there is no role for you. But if I don’t work in this movie, Vinod Khanna will harass me and ask why he/she doesn’t have a heroine while Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor do. So this was the specialty of Manmohan Desai that he/she spoke exactly as he/she was and that is what I liked very much about him/her.

The director was shooting two at a time

Shabana recalled an incident that happened during the shooting of ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’. he/she told, ‘We were shooting in RK Films, and two shoots were going on simultaneously, with the same actor and the same director. Means upbringing and immortality Akbar Anthony. The actors were just changing clothes and moving from one set to another. Can you think of something like this today?’

Neetu and Shabana fell in the well

The actress further told that there was a scene in which Amitabh was applying tape on his/her mirror reflection and he/she had to do it 14 times by mistake. well. During its shooting, the villain of the movie had hanged him/her and Neetu Singh above the well. ‘We couldn’t fall because crocodiles were there and they could eat our legs. But later we started falling into the water and when we fell, we started stinking because the water was so dirty that when we came out people had to cover their noses. We were afraid that we might get skin rash. But it was fun.