Sridevi & Amitabh Bachchan Movies Together List — 4 Films

The shape of the work

The 1980s belonged to Inquilaab; the 2010s to English Vinglish. Sridevi acted in every film; Amitabh Bachchan acted in all of them. Strictly Hindi cinema — they never crossed industries together.

Partnership facts

• Sridevi was the one who pushed for Amitabh to be cast in Khuda Gawah. The director Mani Ratnam originally wanted a younger hero. Sridevi insisted only Big B could play the Afghan warrior — and she was right.
• In Khuda Gawah, Sridevi played a double role — mother and daughter. Amitabh played her lover in the first half and her husband in the second. She had to shift her performance style between the two timelines, and he matched her energy each time without missing a beat.
• On the sets of Aakhree Raasta, Amitabh would often crack jokes to lighten Sridevi's mood. She was notoriously shy off-camera. He later said she was the only co-star who made him nervous because she was so quiet he never knew if she was enjoying the scene.
• English Vinglish was Sridevi's comeback film after 15 years. Amitabh agreed to a cameo as himself — playing a passenger on a plane. That scene became the film's most talked-about moment. It directly led to more Bollywood cameo trends in the 2010s.
• Amitabh once said about Sridevi: 'She had this incredible ability to make you believe she was feeling everything in real time. In Khuda Gawah, I would forget my lines just watching her cry.' He said this in a 2013 interview with Filmfare.
• Their first film together, Inquilaab, was a last-minute pairing. The original heroine dropped out. Sridevi was brought in as a replacement. Amitabh had already shot several scenes with another actress. They had to reshoot everything in two weeks.