Looking back: When Amitabh Bachchan was replaced by Dharmendra in ‘Guddi’ | Hindi Movie News

Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra are two of the biggest superstars of the Hindi film industry and this magical duo has worked together in multiple films from Sholai to Chupke Chupke to Ram Balaram. However, there was a time when Amitabh Bachchan replaced Dharmendra and legendary director Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed the film.


According to reports, the director is working on two films simultaneously – ‘Anand’ starring Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan and ‘Gudi’ starring Jaya Bachchan, Sumit Sanyal and Amitabh Bachchan. It is said that Amitabh Bachchan’s role in Gaddi was just a special appearance, but the director didn’t want the two films to compete with each other and decided to cast Dharmendra, who was a much bigger star in the industry at the time, instead. did. By the way, Bachchan-senpai was shooting for this movie for nearly 10 days. This was the first time that Dharmendra and Jaya Bachchan appeared in the same film.


Years have passed and times have changed and Amitabh Bachchan has become a much bigger star compared to Dharmendra. This was felt during the release of Sholay, as the makers felt that the poor response to the film was due to Bachchan’s death in the film, and were keen to reshoot the parts where he survives. This is because he was working on However, before that happened, the film was declared a success.