Moushumi Chatterjee and Amitabh Bachchan collaborated in three films in the 1970s–Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Benaam, and Manzil. However, in 1981, when filmmaker Shakti Samanta signed the duo for Barsaat Ki Ek Raat, he was made to remove her. Eventually, Rakhee Gulzar was cast in the film, as the love interest of Amitabh’s character. In a recent interview, Moushumi Chatterjee said that she was likely replaced because she wasn’t the friendliest person around.
Speaking with Nayandeep Rakshit, Moushumi shared, “It was filmmaker Shakti Samanta’s film Barsaat Ki Ek Raat. This one day, Shakti uncle called me and asked, ‘Did you have any fight with Amitabh Bachchan?’ I told him, ‘Uncle, I am not so close to anyone that they would fight with me. I am very cordial and nice and I get that feedback also.’ He said, ‘That is the problem. Most of the heroes say, ‘Moushumi ko kyu liya uske sath humara tuning sahi nahi hai.’ He then asked me, ‘Do you understand what do they mean by tuning?’ I said, ‘Maybe, now I understand. Maybe more than friendship. But I am not here to make friends. I am here to work.'”
She added, “So Shakti uncle removed me from this film. I told him ‘I will return you the signing amount’, he said, ‘No, keep it with you, I will make my next film with you.’ So I did Anand Ashram. I understood that he couldn’t spoil his relationship with the number one star.”
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