Abhishek Bachchan once shared a moment that revealed the emotional toll acting can take on even the most seasoned performers. Speaking in an earlier interview with ETimes, he recalled how his mother Jaya Bachchan returned home deeply disturbed after filming a harrowing scene in Govind Nihalani’s Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa.

‘Imagine that’s Abhishek lying there’

The film, made in the 1990s, required Jaya to play a mother identifying her son’s body. Abhishek, who was then working as an assistant director, remembered seeing her shaken after the shoot.

“I’ll tell you a very personal story," he said. “After many years away from the camera, my mother did a film in the 90s called Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa with Govind Nihalani. She came back home and I was an assistant director back then. She looked ve

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