Actress Shabana Azmi is one of those actresses who has worked with big actors from Rajesh Khanna to Naseeruddin Shah. While even today she is working in the industry. Meanwhile, she made a revelation in Arbaaz Khan’s show The Invincible that superstar Mithun Chakraborty, who had worked with her, was very uncomfortable about his skin tone and used to come to her house and express his insecurity, after which his mother used to explain and encourage him.
Shabana Azmi told that Mithun Chakraborty knew her from the days of film school. She said, Mithun Chakraborty used to come to my house in those days. He was my junior then. He would come home and say that neither am I fair nor do I have good teeth. Hearing this, my mother would hug him and say why do you think about all these things. You are a good dancer. There is no need to think about all this. This gave confidence to him and us.
It is worth mentioning that Shabana Azmi has done films like Ashanti, Hum Paanch, Sameera, Nasihat, and Jhoothi Shaan with Mithun Chakraborty in the 80s and 90s. For those who don’t know, Mithun Da’s 1982 film Disco Dancer is the first film that earned 100 crores worldwide. This film was directed by Babbar Subhash. While Rahi Masoom Raza wrote it. While Mithun Chakraborty was in the lead role. The songs of this film are still famous.
