When Film Magazines Banned Amitabh Bachchan: ‘His Name Was Replaced With A Comma’
ABP NewsAmitabh Bachchan, one of Indian cinema’s most iconic stars, has dominated the silver screen for decades. Magazines banned Amitabh Bachchan after Emergency Film critic and author Bharathi S Pradhan recently recalled this unusual episode in an interview with ANI. “Just after the Emergency was lifted, a few magazines got together and banned Amitabh Bachchan because they felt that he and VC Shukla were all one gang of Congress people and they had been blue-penciling all copy,” Pradhan said. Pradhan revealed that if his name appeared alongside a co-star like Hema Malini, editors would replace it with just a comma instead. “If there was a filmography of, say, Hema Malini, and Amitabh Bachchan was her co-star, they would just put a comma instead of his name because Amitabh Bachchan was banned, so you can’t put his name in the magazine,” she explained.
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