The versatile radio announcer AmeenSayani, who is back on Radio with his new show `SitaronkiJawaniyaan`, has revealed that he did not have time to meet him as the actor had not taken an appointment for a voice audition.
“It was somewhere in late 60s when I used to do 20 shows a week, spending most of the day locked up in the sound studio as I was involved in the every process of radio programming. One day, a young man named Amitabh Bachchan walked in without appointment for a voice audition.
“I had not a second to spare for this thin man. He waited and left and came back a few more times. But I could not see him and kept telling him through my receptionist to take an appointment and come,” Sayani said.
Sayani, 81, got to know later that it was the `Sholay` star who used to come to his office for the auditions. When Sayani watched `Anand` (1971), where Bachchan starred opposite Rajesh Khanna at a trial show, he was bowled over by the persona and voice of Big B without knowing he was the same person who had come for the audition.