But during Namak Haraam the Big B and the superstar Khanna were barely civil to one another.Both the actors wanted to die at the end ! The friendship between the two protagonists worked in spite of the actors’ mutual aloofness. Hrishida who had earlier cast Rajesh Khanna and AmitabhBachchan together in Anand wanted to build on their chemistry.
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The fact that the two actors shared a great mutual warmth helped to make their on-screen bonding look genuine.
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While coming from Bangalore, he said to me that ‘we were going to do this’ and ‘we were going to do that’. However, when he learned that Rajesh Khanna was cast in the film, he drunk dialled Hrishikesh Mukherjee to express his disappointment.ĭuring an episode of The Kapil Sharma Show in 2019, Dharmendra revealed, "Hrishida had told me a story on a flight, Anand. The actor, who had previously worked with director Hrishikesh Mukherjee in Satyakam, had revealed that he had heard the script on a flight and wanted to do it. While the film continues to receive much love from cinephiles, not many would know that Dharmendra wanted to do the film too. He played the role of a cancer patient, alongside Amitabh Bachchan. Late actor Rajesh Khanna reached a new height of popularity with the release of Anand.