Big B pays tribute to 26/11 martyrs

Santosh Sivan has been closely associated with Ashok Mehta for years together. Let’s see what he has to say about the deceased cinematographer.

Amitabh Bachchan, who co-starred with the late Rajesh Khanna in Anand and Namak Haraam, has written a moving tribute to the departed star on his blog: A lowdown: “I first saw him in a film magazine, perhaps Filmfare. He was the winner of the Filmfare-Madhuri Talent Contest, a contest that I had applied to in the coming year and been rejected. His film 'Aradhana' was my next meeting with him, at the Rivoli Theatre in Connaught Place in New Delhi, which my Mother took me along to see. The packed audience and their reactions to this young handsome man was impermeable.”