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Mumbai. Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is known for his discipline and professional style. He has also been famous for remaining completely focused on his work during shooting. But once upon a time, such an interesting incident happened, when Amitabh Bachchan had asked the director of his film to leave the set. The special thing is that there was no anger or controversy behind this, but the reason was the laughter of the director.

When the director was laughing again and again at Big B's dialogues

This incident is to the shooting of the film 'Namak Halal' released in 1982. A dialogue of Amitabh Bachchan in the film became very popular – 'I can talk English, I can walk English'.

It is said that this dialogue was improvised by Amitabh Bachchan in his own style during the shooting. Whenever he uttered this dialogue, the film's director Prakash Mehra would laugh.

Amitabh Bachchan's focus started getting affected by the director's laughter. In such a situation, he asked Prakash Mehra to leave the set for some time.

Not angry, took steps to complete the scene

This decision of Amitabh Bachchan was not due to any resentment. He wanted the atmosphere to remain calm during the shooting and he could complete his scene with full concentration.

Prakash Mehra also obeyed the actor and walked out of the set. After this Amitabh completed his scene. This small incident is still counted among the interesting stories to the shooting of 'Namak Halal'.

Amitabh's style became memorable in 'Namak Halal'

Artists like Shashi Kapoor, Smita Patil, Parveen Babi and Waheeda Rehman were seen along with Amitabh Bachchan in 'Namak Halal'. Amitabh's character in the film was that of a simple young man who came to the city from a village, whose style of speaking and comic timing was very much liked by the audience.

The dialogue 'I can talk English…' from the film is still included among Amitabh's most popular comic dialogues.

At that time, Big B was facing 'Heroine Crisis'.

Regarding the era of 'Namak Halal', it is also said that Amitabh Bachchan faced some challenges regarding leading actresses. According to reports, at that time he had stopped working with Rekha. Rakhi was playing a more mature character, while Parveen Babi was not able to work continuously due to health issues.

Neetu Singh was also preparing to stay away from film career. The reports also claimed that Amitabh was not interested in working with Moushumi Chatterjee and Shabana Azmi. In such a situation, it was not easy for him to find a suitable heroine at that time.

Last film with Shashi Kapoor as lead hero

'Namak Halal' was one of the last films of Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor together as lead heroes. After this, both of them were seen in 'Akela', but Shashi Kapoor's role was small in it and Amitabh was in the lead role.

Later Shashi Kapoor directed the film 'Ajooba', in which Amitabh Bachchan also acted. In this way, both of them worked together as a director-actor along with acting on screen.