Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor’s 1979 movie Kaala Patthar finished forty-two years this month. On Tuesday, marking forty-two years of the movie that become launched in theatres on August 9, Amitabh Bachchan shared a photograph of university comprising his stills from the Yash Chopra-directed movie and shared that he laboured as a legit withinside the coal branch of a corporation in Kolkata for around 7-eight years earlier than moving into the enjoyment industry.
Kaala Patthar, produced and directed with the aid of using overdue filmmaker Yash Chopra, become loosely primarily based totally at the Chasnala mining catastrophe and Big B performed the function of an ex-Navy Captain operating in a coal mine withinside the movie. “forty-two years of Kaala Patthar! phew! Been a while,” wrote the actor in his caption and brought: “And such a lot of incidents withinside the movie from my private stories after I laboured withinside the Coal Department of my Calcutta Company, my first activity earlier than becoming a member of the movies… truly operating withinside the Coal mines in Dhanbad and Asansol.”
Big B had in advance additionally, on one episode of his quiz display Kaun Banega Crorepati 12, discovered that he become hired withinside the coal branch of a Bengal corporation withinside the Sixties. The actor stepped into Bollywood with the 1969 movie Saat Hindustani.
Back in 2018, Amitabh Bachchan shared a tweet and brought that “many incidents in Kaala Patthar had been recreations of my very own stories at coal mines after I laboured in Kolkata.”
Kaala Patthar additionally featured Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Prem Chopra and Rakhee Gulzar, amongst many others. It becomes Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor and Yash Chopra’s fourth movie collectively after Deewaar (1975), Kabhie Kabhie (1976) and Trishul (1978).
After Saat Hindustani, Amitabh Bachchan starred in lots of hits along with Anand, Bawarchi, Zanjeer, Bombay To Goa, Namak Haraam, Saudagar, Deewaar, Sholey, Mili, Kabhi Kabhie, Don and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, amongst many others.