Filmmaker-actor Tinnu Anand has revealed how Amitabh Bachchan defined his ailment to him, forward of Shehenshah shoot when he was identified with Myasthenia Gravis in 1984. Tinnu was chatting with Radio Nasha in an interview when he recalled the time when he spent a yr considering he would by no means have the ability to full his bold challenge (Shahenshah). (Also learn: Amitabh reveals why he was employed for polio marketing campaign)
Tinnu mentioned that he as soon as reached the units of Mard in Mysore solely to understand that Amitabh had been injured. He then reached Bangalore to fulfill the actor who requested him to take a seat down. “I was told to wait in the hotel where I will meet Amitabh. And then finally, when he arrived, he knew the kind of jittery person I was. He said, ‘Just sit down, please, before you fall.’ I’ve got bad news for you’. He asked me to cancel my schedule as he got something called Myasthenia Gravis. It is a disease of the muscles. He said, ‘During the shoot when I was taking a sip of water, it got stuck in my throat. The message to my brain did not go that I need to swallow it, so it got stuck. I nearly died, suffocating on it.’ He then explained that he had been asked to go to Bombay for a checkup and complete rest. He said the doctors had warned him that I might never be able to work again’.”
Amitabh was capturing for Mard in 1984, and was but to start manufacturing of Shahenshah when he was identified. He needed to take break lasting for greater than a yr on the time.
The filmmaker additional mentioned that he collapsed upon listening to Amitabh declare that he might by no means act once more and the actor needed to name for an ambulance. Tinnu additionally mentioned that collectors started asking him for all the cash that they had invested in Shahenshah after a report quoted Amitabh as saying that he was sorry however he wanted to surrender on appearing. Things modified solely a yr later when Tinnu visited Ajitabh and he promised that the actor will full all his pending movies as soon as his therapy is finished.
In The Times of India report, Amitabh was quoted as saying, “I know I am quite ill. It doesn’t look as if I will ever be able to face the camera again. Anyways, people are getting fed up of me doing the same role over and over again, aren’t they?”
A report that appeared in India Today journal in 1984, quoted producer Manmohan Desai (producer of Mard) thus: “The newspaper reports are just sensationalistic. To the best of my knowledge, he is merely suffering from overwork. I did not detect anything particularly wrong during our shooting in the south.”
Source: www.hindustantimes.com