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There was a time when the makers believed that the multi -starrer film is a guarantee of a hit. Manmohan Desai, who gave blockbuster films like ‘Don’ and ‘Wall’, also made a film at the same time. In this film, he took many stars together …Read more

The story of the 1988 multistarrer film.

New Delhi. From Amitabh Bachchan, Jitendra to Rishi Kapoor, many stars came in the 70-80s, who gave more than one films. Like Salim-Javed’s writer pair, some directors also used to be a favorite. Some considered him his lucky charm, so he considered him a guarantee of a hit. Amitabh Bachchan has also been one of those stars. Like Prakash Mehra, he was a favorite of Manmohan Desai. In 1988, he brought a multistarrer film, which he wanted to make with Amitabh-Jitendra-Rishi Kapoor, but two famous stars refused for this film.

This film is none other than the romantic action drama film ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’. The film was released on 23 December 1988. Manmohan Desai’s films also included tremendous action and Dhansu dialogue as well as the best songs. He also wanted to make this film in the same way, but see the misfortune, it proved to be the last of Manmohan Desai as a director, which proved to be Mahaflop.

The film was written after the success of ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’
Before this film, the pair of Manmohan Desai and Amitabh Bachchan had given great films to Hindi cinema. Despite this, this film failed to win the hearts of the audience. Actually, Manmohan Desai made this decision only after the success of the 1977 film Amar Akbar Anthony. Amitabh Bachchan will do the film ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’ with the role of ‘Gangaram’, Jitendra ‘Jamunadas’ and Rishi Kapoor ‘Saraswati Chandra’. Jitendra left the film in between. After Jitendra’s departure, Mithun Chakraborty got the film.

Ti film released in the year 1988.

The makers are reversed
After this, a lot was changed in the film. It is believed that this decision was reversed on the makers. Rishi Kapoor did not have any role in the film due to Mithun’s character. In such a situation, the makers had no other way than to get them out of the film and which they felt very sad.

Multistarrer film is ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’
Talking about the collection of the film, according to the media report, it was spent 8 crore rupees to make ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’, which was able to earn only 5 crore rupees at the box office. It proved to be a flop film. ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’ is a multistarrer film, acting by actors like Meenakshi Seshadri, Jayaprada, Mithun Chakraborty, Amrish Puri and Nirupa Roy.

Why did the actress become water and water in shame
In a film, Meenakshi Seshadri, 21 years younger than Amitabh, gave intimate scenes, who were in the news. Actually, in a scene of the film, Meenakshi Seshadri faints due to cold shock. Meenakshi gave her reaction in an interview about her intimate scene with superstar. Meenakshi had said that she had turned red with shame after watching that scene in the film.

Meenakshi Seshadri had given intimate scenes with an actor who has increased by 21 years.

Amitabh and Minakshi’s romantic chemistry could not be saved
Meenakshi had said that it is very difficult to shoot such a scene in front of the unit and camera. A lot of courage has to be gathered for this. Amitabh and Minakshi’s romantic chemistry was well liked in the film. However, the film could not perform a special performance at the box office.

After this film, Amitabh’s career graph started to fall
The film ‘Ganga Jamuna Saraswati’ was released when the 80s were about to end and the film proved to be the last film of Manmohan Desai’s career. This is the same film, after which Amitabh Bachchan’s career graph started getting down. The time of the golden period films of Manmohan Desai, Prakash Mehra and Amitabh Bachchan also ended gradually.