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Amitabh-starrer 'Kaun Jeeta…' boycotted over Bofors scandal: Puri

short by Ishita Ranganath / on Tuesday, 11 August, 2026
Actor Satyajeet Puri recently recalled that the 1987 Bofors controversy affected the film 'Kaun Jeeta Kaun Haara' due to an intense public boycott against Amitabh Bachchan. The public pressure was over Bachchan's close association with PM Rajiv Gandhi during the ₹64-crore Bofors gun payoff scandal. "There was no interest...Even the posters of our film, people blacked them out," recalled Puri.
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