New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor’s 1979 film Kaala Patthar completed 42 years this month.
Big B shared a collage comprising his stills from the Yash Chopra-directed film that he worked as an official in the coal department of a company in Kolkata before stepping into the entertainment industry.
Sharing the pictures he captioed his post, ” 42 years of Kaala Patthar! phew! Been a while,” wrote the actor in his caption and added: “And so many incidents in the film from my personal experiences when I worked in the Coal Department of my Calcutta Company, my first job before joining the movies… actually working in the Coal mines in Dhanbad and Asansol.”
Earlier, he had also revealed that he was employed in the coal department of a Bengal company in the Sixties in one of the episode of his quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati 12.
He stepped into Bollywood with the 1969 film Saat Hindustani.
Kaala Patthar featured Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Prem Chopra and Rakhee Gulzar, among many others.