Jaya Bachchan Birthday Special: Veteran Bollywood actress and politician Jaya Bachchan is celebrating her 76th birthday today. Jaya Bhaduri was born on April 9, 1948, in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh in a Bengali Brahmin family. Her father Tarun Kumar was a journalist, writer, and poet. Jaya started her career at the age of 15. Her first film was Satyajit Ray's Bengali film 'Mahanagar'.

After this, Jaya entered Bollywood with Hrishikesh Mukherjee's film 'Guddi' and remained here only. Jaya Bachchan had worked with Amitabh Bachchan in the film 'Bansi Birju' in the year 1972 and it was here that both of them met for the first time. After this, both of them worked together in many blockbuster films. It is said that Jaya had fallen in love with Amitabh at first sight. Not only this, Jaya used to fight with anyone for Amitabh, even if he was her friend.

This is how Jaya became the daughter-in-law of the Bachchan family

Jaya and Amitabh's love story is also very interesting like a film story. When Amitabh Bachchan's 1973 film 'Zanjeer' became a hit, he wanted to celebrate it with Jaya in London, but when Amitabh Bachchan came to know about this, he clearly said that if they go to London together. If yes, then they will have to get married first, after which both of them took seven rounds on June 2, and on June 3, 1973, both of them went to visit London. Not only this, Jaya has also written the story of a film starring Amitabh Bachchan.

Didn't want to become an actress

Very few people know that Jaya Bachchan wrote the story of Amitabh Bachchan's film 'Shahenshah', which was a huge super hit at the box office. However, many things have also been revealed that Jaya did not want to become an actress at one time. She wanted to join the army since childhood, but at that time women were given only the job of nurse in army recruitment, which she did not want to do. In Natin Vya Naveli's podcast, Jaya said that at that time women were considered better at taking care.

Jaya Bachchan's net worth

Whereas, if we talk about Jaya Bachchan's net worth, then according to many reports, Jaya Bachchan is the owner of crores and she lives a luxurious life. He has Rs 57 thousand 507 in cash, while Rs 10 crore 11 lakh 33 thousand 172 are present in his bank account. Talking about her investments, Jaya has invested about Rs 5 crore 18 lakh 57 thousand 928 in shares, bonds, and debentures. Apart from this, he has many luxury cars. There are also watches worth Rs 51 lakh and a pen worth Rs 9 lakh.