Moushumi Chatterjee still admits her rivalry with Jaya Bachchan
Actor Moushumi Chatterjee admitted having a rivalry with Jaya Bachchan when they were both contemporaries.
Veteran Moushumi Chatterjee, last year headlined when she told the paparazzi, she is a much better person than Jaya Bachchan.”
Recently, in an interview Moushumi addressed her statement and recalled her past rivalry with Bachchan. She calls Rajesh Khanna ‘egoistic’, says this about Amitabh Bachchan.
Moushumi says she still believes she is a better person than Jaya Bachchan. And clarified her statement saying, “That was fabricated, but she doesn’t like comparisons. It’s her luck that you see Jaya Bachchan that way, but one incident can’t define everything. Where does your humanity go then? Sometimes the paparazzi can be irritating. They don’t want to listen. Once you want to stay away from the limelight, you cannot force a person to like you. But, she considers herself a better person. She knows that. First, have to know to understand others.
She further opened up about whether there was any rivalry between her and Jaya Bachchan when they were contemporaries and said, “Oh yes, there were underlying connections. Rivalry was there, and she had also heard some stories, but was indifferent because was not made only for acting. She had a choice. When she was there from a home where there was already a car and servants. So, she wasn’t working to achieve all that, unlike those who needed to earn money to attain those things.”
In 2024, amidst an event in Mumbai, Moushumi was seen posing for the paparazzi. The photographers repeatedly asked her to adjust her gaze and smile for the cameras. She appeared visibly irritated. Amid this, when one of her friends compared her to Jaya Bachchan, she immediately looked at the paps and said, “I am a much better person than Jaya Bachchan.” She added, Actually, without you [paps], we [actors] wouldn’t exist.
For the unversed, Jaya Bachchan is often seen lashing out at the paparazzi for constantly shouting her name while clicking photographs. On several occasions, the Mili actor has been seen reprimanding photographers who try to click her pictures.
Moushumi was one of the highest-paid actors in the 1970s. She is widely known for her work in Hindi and Bengali films and has delivered several hits alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, and other superstars. She was most recently seen in the Bengali film Aarii. The action drama, written and directed by Jiit Chakraborty, explored the sacrifices and emotional bond between a widowed mother and her caregiver son. The film was a commercial success at the box office.
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