New Delhi:
Jaya Bachchan started her acting career from Satyajit Ray’s Bengali film Mahanagar at just 15 years old. Eight years later, Jaya made her Bollywood debut with Rishikesh Mukherjee’s film Guddi. Jaya is known to say her words without any use. The actress once expressed her love for her in front of Dharmendra’s wife Hema Malini. This happened when both actresses, Jaya Bachchan and Hema Malini, joined the Coffee with Karan show. Expressing his love for Dharmendra, Jaya called him Greek God and said, “I should have played the role of Basanti because I loved Dharmendra.” When I first saw them, I was so nervous that I did not understand what to do. There was a great looking person there. He was wearing white pants and shoes, which looked like a Greek God. “
In 1971, Jaya Bachchan started her acting career with Guddi, directed by Rishikesh Mukherjee. 22-year-old Jaya Bachchan played the role of 16-year-old naive girl ‘Guddi’, who was in love with her screen Idol ‘Dharmendra’, who appeared in the film as ‘Dharmendra’. Like the film, Jaya is also influenced by Dharmendra in real life and had a crush on him. After all, Dharmendra and Jaya Bachchan came back again for Karan Johar’s film Rocky and Rani’s love story. Dharmendra once shared a picture with Jaya on his Instagram handle and wrote his feelings behind working with him after many years. His beloved note can be read in this way, “After years … with his Guddi … Guddi … who was once a big fan … a good news.”
During a throbac interview, Dharmendra revealed that she has a very special relationship with Jaya, she will always be her ‘Guddi’. Dharmendra said, “For me, he is still Guddi, with the same lovely smile. The years passed, but it did not change, not at all. Of course, when I tell him this, Jaya protesting says, I no longer lived, but when I tell him, ‘For me you will always be a Guddi.’