Long earlier than Bollywood celebs took to sipping Koffee, Rendezvous With Simi Garewal was the one-stop vacation spot for movie buffs to get private confessions of the actors. One of the uncommon episodes of the present had Rekha opening her coronary heart as she talked about Amitabh Bachchan and spouse Jaya, and the cloud of gossip that has swerved across the trio.
While she confessed her love for Amitabh – “I have yet to come across a single man, woman, child who can help but fall completely, passionately, insanely, desperately, hopelessly in love with him. So why should I be singled out?” – Rekha dominated out that they ever had a private relationship.
Rekha additionally dismissed hypothesis that there was a rift with Jaya Bachchan regardless of all of the gossip. “Didibhai is much more mature, much more together,” Rekha had mentioned about Jaya. “I’ve yet to come across a woman who is so together. She’s got so much dignity, so much class. She’s got a lot of strength. I admire that woman. We had an association before the so-called rumours and the media messed up the whole image. We were living in the same building and we had a relationship.She was my Didibhai, she still is – no matter what happens nobody can take that away. Thank God she realises that too. Whenever we meet she’s very sweet – she’s not just civil, she’s just herself,” she had mentioned.
Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Rekha labored collectively in Silsila, made by Yash Chopra. The filmmaker had revealed in a chat with Shah Rukh Khan that he had initially forged Smita Patil and Parveen Babi as feminine leads however modified the casting later.