Aruna Irani reveals why a romantic duet with Amitabh Bachchan was deleted from ‘Bombay To Goa’, because the movie completes 50 years – Occasions of India

Versatile actress-dancer Aruna Irani finds it troublesome to imagine that her 1972 landmark hit ‘Bombay to Goa’ (BTG) accomplished 50 years of its launch this week. The musical, jubilee-hit, directed by S Ramanathan starring Amitabh Bachchan, Aruna Irani, Shatrughan Sinha and an ensemble of ace comedy abilities lead by legendary actor and co-director Mehmood is hailed as a benchmark. It was additionally a career-turning-point for Huge B.

Beforehand, in a dialog with writer Chaitanya Padukone, Aruna had narrated about not getting the dance steps proper within the romantic duets with Amitabh Bachchan. Talking to ETimes, Aruna elaborated on the story and mentioned, “Again then, neither I nor my hero Amit ji have been good dancers. However our choreographer PL Raj was a tricky task-master and he made us diligently slog and rehearse. All that effort resulted within the closing end result, which was so impactful. Notably in my favorite duet track ‘Dil Tera Hai Principal Bhi’, composed so superbly by genius RD Burman”. She additionally revealed why one more romantic duet, the melodious track (‘Tum Meri Zindagi Mein’) was excluded from the movie. Because the road-trip film ‘Bombay To Goa’ was additionally a gripping crime-thriller, the producer-director felt that this track, which was even shot, would drag the build-up and have an effect on the suspense and tempo of the film. Sadly the powerful choice to delete it needed to be taken.

By the way, ‘BTG’ can be impressed by a 1966 hit Tamil movie ‘Madras To Pondicherry’.