KBC 13: Amitabh Bachchan blushes hard as he remembers his marriage with Jaya

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan blushed while remembering his love marriage with wife Jaya on the latest episode of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ . While speaking to a contestant about his arranged marriage, Amitabh remembered his own love marriage to wife Jaya Bachchan, about 48 years ago.

In the hot seat on Thursday’s episode was Shivshankar Devagan, a businessman from Raipur, Chattisgarh, Amitabh asked him about his marriage after seeing his equation with his wife. As Shivshankar explained how he met his wife and their marriage was arranged, a curious Amitabh asked him to explain the difference between an arranged marriage and love marriage.

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This was the time, Amitabh remembered his own marriage to Jaya.

“Dekhiye, humko toh maalum nahi hai arranged marriage hota kya hai. Kyuki…nai main (See, I don’t know what an arranged marriage is. Because I)…,” he said but could not finish his sentence, blushing hard. The audience laughed at his reaction as he turned around and hid his face.

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“Kya hai sir, anubhav se baat karrahe hain hum (The thing is that I am speaking from experience),” he said, finally gaining some composure but still cracking up at the end.

Amitabh and Jaya, who tied the knot in 1973, featured together in films such as Silsila, Abhiman, Mili and Sholay.

In earlier social media posts, he has talked about how they got married at short notice. He wrote in an Instagram post last year, “47 years .. today .. June 3, 1973 .. !! Had decided if Zanjeer would succeed, we would along with a few friends go to London for the first time .. My father asked who you going with? When I told him who, he said you must marry her before you go .. else you don’t go .. So .. I obeyed .. !!”

They are parents of Abhishek Bachchan and Shweta Nanda. Abhishek is married to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.