Overview

• Speaking in new interviews, Bedi alleges Rajesh Khanna stopped turning up for shoots for up to 15 days after Narendra Bedi began working with Amitabh Bachchan.
• He says film units were taken to Pune for one or two projects that were then shut down, leaving his father in financial distress.
• Bedi recounts nightly drinking sessions between Khanna and his father and says the habit deepened Narendra Bedi’s depression.
• He adds that the drinking impaired work on sets, citing Sanam Teri Kasam where Kamal Haasan was reportedly upset by the smell of alcohol.
• He recalls witnessing his father collapse and die when he was a child, and he is sharing the account as he returns to the spotlight with Aryan Khan’s series.