If one does not count one day’s shooting that they did for makeup man Deepak Sawant’s Bhojpuri film ‘Ganga Devi’ out of sentimental reasons, the Amitabh-Jaya Bachan pair has not done a film together since ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ in 2001. Prior to that, the evergreen jodi had got together in 1981, again as husband and wife, in Yash Chopra’s Silsila. Now, director Shoojit Sircar, who made the unreleased ‘Johnny Mastana’ with Big B three years ago, is all set to reunite Mr and Mrs B in what the director described as “a retrospection of a marriage in the closing years of a couple’s life when they’re certain that one of them would go before the other. After spending 35 years together, how does one-half of the marital pair prepare to face a spouse-less existence?” It is interesting to see Sircar cast a couple that has spent nearly the same number of years together in marriage similar to the couple they’d play in the film. Sircar described it as an intensely romantic film about an aged couple. With the script ready, Sircar has been regularly visiting the Bachchans’ residence to firm up the project. “Mr Bachchan and I spent two years of our lives working on ‘Johnny Mastana’. It’s unfortunate that the film is still unreleased. I still say it’s one of Mr Bachchan’s best works till date. My next film with him would be even better,” Sircar said emphatically.
