Sridevi with Amitabh Bachchan in Dec 1988!!

The timeline of Khuda Gawah is so fascinating. If the image of Sridevi and Amitabh Bachchan in their costumes for Khuda Gawah was published in MOVIE magazine back in December 1988, then the discussion about the film started long before.  The film finally released four years later - May of 1992! 

Film producer Manoj Desai recollects, "We shot in Afghanistan during a war. Najibullah, a friend of the late Rajiv Gandhi, gave us an entire Lashkar for protection. Even our cameraman, WB Rao, would place his camera in a tent to shoot. 

 All the artists’ families, Amitji, Sridevi, and Danny Dengzongpa, were worried. I remember Teji Bachchanji told me that if anything happened to her son, I shouldn’t come back, I should die as well. Sridevi herself reminded me she had to take care of her mother, so she had better be brought back safely. Those were tense times.” 

-- Caption courtesy News 9