Amitabh Bachchan is an inspiration to many actors who want to make it big in the film industry. Sometimes, people compare two stars and not everyone is okay with it. One such star who was not compared but accused of copying the megastar was Mukesh Khanna .
The actor who has become a core memory of every 90s kid as Shaktimaan was compared with Big B, which irked him. In an interview, Khanna has talked about the same. Also Read - Amitabh Bachchan asks Aishwarya Rai to 'stop behaving like Aaradhya', video goes viral amid divorce rumours In an interview with Bollywood Thikana, Mukesh Khanna recalled people saying that he's copying Amitabh Bachchan .
The actor revealed that the 'copycat' tag was given to him from his debut film Roohi, which was released in 1981 and the same happened during his movies Dard-e-Dil and Captain Barry. Mukesh stated how Mithun Chakraborty was once called 'Gareebon Ka Amitabh Bachchan'. While he doesn't know how Mithun reacted to it.
But if it had happened to Mukesh, he would have told people to'shut up'. Also Read - Amitabh Bachchan believes he is 'half-Sikh', here's why "They would say, ‘You look like Amit ji; you copy him.’ A string of my films flopped, which is why people said that.
Here, only success speaks the loudest. When Mahabharat happened, no one gave me a label of Amitabh Bachchan, which happened a lot during my film career," revealed the Shaktimaan actor. In the same interview, the Mahabharat star revealed that even media wrote articles .