Abhishek Bachchan and his father Amitabh Bachchan won National Awards for the same film, R Balki’s Paa, which released in cinemas back in 2009. While Amitabh won the Best Actor in a Leading Role award, his son received the Best Feature Film in Hindi honour as the film’s producer. Along with being an actor in the movie, in which he played his real-life father’s onscreen father, Abhishek also showed his astute business sense as a producer.

“I made that film within Rs 17 crore as a producer. I went to the film’s hero, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan, who’s also my father, and said, ‘I want to produce this film. I won’t be able to pay you for it because the production budget is Rs 17 crore, and I don’t think if it goes more than that, it’d be able to work. So, whatever profits we earn from it, I’d p

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