Amitabh Bachchan Battled 55 Cases And Rs 90 Crore Debt; Major Saab Director Tinnu Anand Reveals How Bankruptcy Shook His Career

Veteran filmmaker Tinnu Anand has opened up about one of the most difficult chapters of his career directing the 1998 film Major Saab during Amitabh Bachchan’s bankruptcy crisis. While the movie, starring Bachchan and Ajay Devgn, was eventually released and became popular, Anand revealed that making it was nothing short of a nightmare. The director shared that the collapse of Amitabh Bachchan’s production house, Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL), left the crew unpaid, leading to constant strikes and unrest on set. Anand admitted that the stress and humiliation he faced during this time nearly pushed him to quit filmmaking altogether.

In a recent interview, Anand recalled the chaos of filming Major Saab. He revealed that Bachchan’s production company had run out of money, leaving the unit in an extremely difficult position. The entire crew was housed in one hotel, but without proper payments, tempers soon flared. “Every other day the crew would go on strike. They threatened not to work, not to turn up, because they hadn’t been paid. Just imagine the pressure we were under,” Anand said. The situation became so tense that Anand himself felt insulted and powerless. As a director, he could not control the financial side of things, and yet he had to face the anger of the crew. “I could have lost my temper, but if I had, the strikes would have worsened. It wasn’t my production, but I had to keep everyone calm. That pain was unbearable,” he revealed, adding that after Major Saab, he decided never to direct again.