Please give me a film: Abhishek recalls how Amitabh asked Yash Chopra for work

Actor Abhishek Bachchan recalled the time when his father, Amitabh Bachchan was going through a financial crunch in the 1990s. “I left my education because my father was going through this really rough time, financially,” he said in an appearance on YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia’s podcast.

Abhishek said that even though he wasn’t ‘qualified’ to help him in any way, he felt that as a son, he should be around his father.

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“Well, truth be told, I left university — I was studying in Boston University. I had declared my major as liberal arts, and then I majored in performing arts. And I left my education because my father was going through this really rough time, financially. He had started this business called ABCL,” said the 45-year-old.

“I don’t think I was qualified to help him in any which way, but I just felt that as a son, I needed to be around my father, and help in whatever way. So I left my college and came back. I started helping him in his company,” added the actor.

He also said that this was the time his father decided to ‘go back to basics’ and revive his acting career.

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“So the next morning, he ‘walked across to Yash Chopra’s house’ and told him, ‘Look, I don’t have a job, nobody is giving me work anymore, my movies aren’t working, and I’ve come to ask you to please give me a film to work in,” he said.

The senior Bachchan went on doing films like ‘Mohabbatein’ and Television show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ that turned the tide for him.