Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai shared screen space in many movies like ‘Mohabbatein’ and ‘Khakhee’ before she married Abhishek Bachchan and became his daughter-in-law. Here’s recalling the time when Bachchan was so worried and simply couldn’t sleep for two nights when he saw Aishwarya get injured in an accident in front of his own eyes, on the sets of ‘Khakhee’. A stunt man who was driving too fast, lost his control and rammed the car into Aishwarya’s chair.The actress was badly hurt and rushed to the hospital.
In an old interview, Bachchan had spoken about it and said he was deeply disturbed. The legendary actor had spoken about it, during a chat with Rediff and discussed the gravity of the situation, opposing the fact that media put on the incident as trivial. He said, “I asked Aishwarya’s mother if she wanted to take her daughter back to Mumbai. We organised Anil Ambani’s private plane. Since there is no night landing facility in Nashik, we had to take permission from Delhi to land the plane at the military base which is 45 minutes away from the hospital. The seats had to be removed from the aircraft. And everyone is brushing it off as a small incident blown out of proportion.”
He further spoken about the seriousness of her injury and said, “For two nights I couldn’t sleep. To see this happen in front of my eyes! Her back was lacerated with cactus thorns. The bone in the rear portion of her feet is broken. She suffered severe cuts. And her injury was reported as trivial.”
‘Khakee‘ had released in 2004 and also starred Ajay Devgn, Tusshar Kapoor apart from Big B, Aishwarya and Akshay Kumar.