Actor
Jaideep Ahlawat, who will be seen on the Hotseat of Kaun Banega Crorepati, alongside his The Family Man team, reveals his pre-existing connection with the Bachchan family. The talented actor shares that he already felt a bond as he graduated from the same institute where
Jaya Bachchan once studied.
Jaideep Ahlawat says, “I may be meeting you today for the first time, sir, but in a way my connection with your family is very old… because I am a pass-out from the same institute that Jaya ji passed out from.”
He goes on to describe how stories of Jaya Bachchan’s student days became an integral part of the institute's culture. Jaideep recalls seniors sharing incidents where Jaya ji and her group would sit in the old canteen and how students would keep returning there just to soak in those memories.
“People went there to study… we went there to listen,” Amitabh Bachchan adds with a smile.
Manoj Bajpayee steps in to highlight the legacy of Jaideep’s own graduating class. Manoj says, “Jaideep’s batch is considered the golden batch of the institute - Vijay Varma was in that batch, Rajkummar Rao was in that batch, Sunny Hinduja, Jatin Goswami… so many talented artists came from that one batch.”
The episode witnesses touching moments of film-school memories, artistic lineage, and the deep admiration that India’s finest actors hold for the Bachchan family.
In one of the promos of the episode, Manoj Bajpayee is seen recalling his first meeting with Amitabh Bachchan at the screening of Satya in Mumbai. He shared that their first meeting was during the screening of ‘Satya’ 28 years ago, a moment so overwhelming that he initially tried to avoid facing Amitabh Bachchan altogether. But destiny had other plans.