Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan’s First Film Together Was a Box Office Catastrophe:

Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan’s First Film Together Was a Box Office Catastrophe:

While Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri (later Bachchan) are celebrated as one of Bollywood’s most iconic and successful on-screen and off-screen couples, their very first collaboration was a monumental failure at the box office. The 1972 film, titled “Bansi Birju,” marked the first time audiences saw the pair together, but the movie failed to make an impression and is remembered as one of the biggest disasters of their early careers. Directed b…