Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan have been married for more than 50 years. They met for the first time on the sets of the 1971 film ‘Guddi’, but Jaya was not the first woman Amitabh Bachchan fell in love with.
Celebrity biographer Hanif Zaveri recently shared the story of Amitabh Bachchan’s first love and his breakup with that woman in an interview. He said that the two fell in love even before Amitabh came to Bombay, but they broke up before the release of his first film, ‘Saat Hindustani’.
In a conversation with the YouTube channel ‘Meri Saheli’, Hanif said that his love story with a woman named Maya started when he used to work in Kolkata and earn around Rs 250-300 per month. Hanif told, ‘At that time, she used to work in British Airways. Amitabh Bachchan loved her very much and she also loved him very much.’
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He further said that after the Kolkata job, Amitabh Bachchan came to Mumbai in search of work in films and initially stayed in a bungalow in Juhu, which belonged to his mother Teji Bachchan’s friend. Since Maya often visited them and his mother’s friend also lived in the same house, Amitabh feared his mother finding out about their relationship. “So he decided to leave the house,” Hanif said.
Amitabh Bachchan had to change his house
At this time, Amitabh was working on his first film ‘Saat Hindustani’, in which he was working with Mehmood’s brother Anwar Ali. He said, ‘He told his concerns to Anwar, and Anwar understood his concerns. So Anwar gave him a place to stay in his house.’ He further said that Anwar had taken an apartment from Mehmood and Amitabh lived in this house for some time.
Amitabh’s girlfriend used to scold him because…
He said, ‘He and Maya stayed together for some time, and maybe they could have even got married, but at that time Amitabh’s career was not stable. In those days, Amitabh was a very shy person, and Maya was very clever. Sometimes she did not even care who was sitting with him, and she used to talk to him as per her wish, even scold him. Anwar Ali and the rest of Amitabh’s friends did not like this at all. And Amitabh also used to get scared of