Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha’s alleged affair is the most talked about extramarital affair in tinsel town. To this day, Rekha leaves many wondering who she wears the sindoor for if she is not married, and everyone knows the answer but is never willing to talk about it. But one man dared and made this startling revelation in front of the whole world, and it was none other than Yash Chopra who managed to bring all three of them together in his film and even showed the true phase of their lives. In Yash Chopra’s Silsila, Amitabh Bachchan played Jaya Bachchan’s husband and had an extramarital affair with Rekha while married to Sanjeev in the film.
Yash Chopra in one of his BBC interviews told the whole story of Amitabh Bachchan having an affair with Rekha while he was married to Jaya Bachchan. “I was always on fire and scared (during Silsila) because it was real life coming into real life. Jaya is his wife and Rekha is his girlfriend; the same story happens (in real life). Anything could have happened because they work together.”
Yash Chopra added: “When a man and a woman do romantic scenes, there’s no way they won’t get into a relationship – in the past it wasn’t so open, but today it is. Nobody cared about that in the past.”
Rekha admitted to having a relationship with Amitabh Bachchan.
Rekha, in her biography The Untold Story, mentioned how Amitabh Bachchan cut all ties with her. “Once, I was watching the whole (Bachchan) family across the screening room when they came to see Muqaddar Ka Sikandar’s trial show. Jaya was sitting in the front row, and he and his parents were in the row behind her. They couldn’t see her as clearly as I could. And during our love scenes, I could see tears streaming down her face. A week later (after Muqaddar Ka Sikandar’s trial show), everyone in the industry was telling me that he had made it clear to his producers that he was not going to work with me. When I tried to ask him about it, he said, “I’m not going to say a word. Don’t ask me about this “.”
A few years ago, Rekho admitted to being madly in love with Amitabh Bachchan, and he was the only man she had ever loved. Some love stories don’t have a happy ending.
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