SIKAT NA AKTOR NAGHIHIRAP NA NGAYON

 

SIKAT NA AKTOR NAGHIHIRAP NA NGAYON. SIKAT NA AKTOR NAGHIHIRAP NA NGAYON

From rich to poor.

Bhushan was not able to sustain the success he received after Baiju Bawra. He forayed into production with his brother with the movie Dooj ka Chand and met with massive monetary loss. At the peak of his career, Bhushan was one of the richest actors in the Hindi film industry, but he soon went bankrupt.

Nine years after Barsaat ki Raat, he started playing the role of the lead actor’s father at the age of 49. The most prominent instance of this is in the 1969 movie Pyar ka Mausam where he played Shashi Kapoor’s father. Bhushan was unable to compete with the rise of young stars such as Shashi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra. This, combined with the failure of his production company ended Bhushan’s career indefinitely.

His downswing continued in the 1970s and he was forced to take up minor roles to make ends meet. He sold off most of his property and started living the life of a recluse, occasionally returning to silver screen in marginal roles. By the 1990s, Bhushan was reduced to the status of a junior artist with movies such as Humshakal and Pyar ka Devta.

Perhaps the most poignant anecdote of Bhushan is when superstar Amitabh Bachchan in his blog wrote that he saw him standing in a queue to catch a bus. “One morning for work I saw Bharat Bhushan, the great romantic heart throb of the 50’s, hero of some of the most successful musicals of the times, standing in a queue at a bus stop! An ordinary citizen. Part of the crowd. Alone, unnoticed. No one recognizing him. No one knowing who he was.”

Bhushan passed away on 27 January 1992 at the age of 72 in a forgotten and an impoverished state.