When a famous director gifted Amitabh a car worth 4 crores, his mother jumped with joy

Vidhu Vinod Chopra: Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a famous filmmaker. Recently he has made a film named '12th Fail'. In the year 2007, he made a multi-starrer action thriller film named 'Eklavya: The Royal Guard'. Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balak acted in it. The film failed at the box office, but critics praised the film. Recently, during an interview, he told an interesting story related to the making of this film.

Refused to book a room worth Rs. 65 thousand for Big B

In the year 2007, Vidhu Vinod Chopra was doing the film 'Eklavya: The Royal Guard' with Amitabh Bachchan. Talking about the shooting of the film then, he said that due to the low budget during the shooting, I had to pay 50 thousand rupees. He refused to book a room worth 65 thousand. It was so difficult that if I had booked a room for Big B, I would not have been able to take Saif and Sanjay in the film. Although I could have booked a room for Amitabh as well, but by doing so, the budget of the film would have increased and I would not have been able to make a solo film.

Later gifted a car worth Rs. 4 crore

Vidhu Vinod said, 'When I earned money in my career, I gifted Amitabh Bachchan a Rolls Royce Phantom car.' Vidhu gifted Big B a car worth Rs. 4 crores, although at that time he had a Maruti van.

On his mother's reaction at that time, Vidhu Vinod said, I can never forget that incident. I had gone with my mother to gift a car to Amitabh. After giving him the gift, we came back in a blue Maruti van. Mother used to call Big B tall. I did not have a driver at that time so I was driving the car.

Then Maa asked, 'Did he gift the car to Lambu?' I said yes. Maa said why don't you buy a car for yourself? I said I will buy the car but not now. I said the gifted car must be worth Rs. 11 lakhs. I started laughing because he told me the price of the car was Rs. 4 crores. So when I told him the real price he slapped me and called me a fool. I can never forget this incident.'

Vidhu's last film as a director '12th Fail' was praised not only by critics but also by the audience. Made on a budget of 20 crores, this film has earned 69 crores.