Amitabh Bachchan had a ball while filming Satte Pe Satta. So much that Jaya Bachchan would go searching for him, Sachin Pilgaonkar revealed. The popular actor played one of Amitabh’s brothers in the film. In a recent interview, Sachin revealed that Jaya and the Bachchan children, Shweta and Abhishek Bachchan were in Kashmir while the team shot the film. After the shoot day, Sachin recalled that he, Amitabh and other stars in the film would head out to party together.
Their parties would go on until 12 am or 1 am, leaving Jaya Bachchan searching for him. “Jaya ji and their kids had accompanied him, were staying with him at his hotel. Every day, after pack up, Amit ji would sit in his car and come to Broadway to party with us,” Sachin told Radio Nasha.
“He wouldn’t go to the Oberoi Palace. Jaya ji would be searching for him, there were no mobile phones at that time. Amit ji would tell us, ‘Call Jaya ji and tell her that I am here.’ He would sit around with us till 1-2 am, talking. He thoroughly enjoyed spending time with us, it was new for him,” Sachin added.
Besides partying together, Sachin recalled that the cast would also often picnic together. “We used to have a lot of fun. It felt like we were on a picnic. We were all such waahiyad log, only one sharif person on set was Amitabh Bachchan,” he said, adding that Amitabh grew close to the cast.
For the unversed, Satte Pe Satta revolved around seven brothers who grew up on a barn and how their lives change when a woman walks into their lives. The film was led by Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini, and also starred Sachin, Shakti Kapoor, Amjad Khan, and Ranjeeta Kaur. The film was directed by Raj N. Sippy and emerged as a massive blockbuster.
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