The brilliance of Bollywood is such that even after success, someone who is pushed into oblivion can make him a superstar overnight. Something similar happened with Mukesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. Mukesh Khanna became famous because of Shaktimaan. Because of his acting, people became his fan. But some incidents also happened due to which Mukesh Khanna’s films stopped running.
Apart from acting as Shaktimaan, Mukesh Khanna has also worked in many films. He also became popular because of his films. He was offered several films one after the other. Apart from films, he also started getting offers for advertisements. But Mukesh Khanna’s career ended because of three words said to Amitabh Bachchan, the megastar of the century.
Mukesh Khanna himself had said in an interview that when he met Amitabh Bachchan early in his career, he had done ten-fifteen films and one or two commercials. One of them was an advertisement in which he descends the stairs and several young women come. He was shown wearing a suit in the advertisement.
When this advertisement came during a film, Amitabh Bachchan was also present in the audience and seeing Mukesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan said, “Salo kopi kare che”.
Someone told this to Mukesh Khanna and Mukesh Khanna was surprised to hear this. After this incident, it was written everywhere that Mukesh Khanna is imitating Amitabh Bachchan in acting. Mukesh Khanna’s career took off only after this incident. Four of his films proved to be box office flops and his career came to an end.
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