Amitabh Bachchan didn’t attend Mukri’s funeral, never called: ‘Filmon ki dosti aisi hai’

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jul 29, 2026 06:15 PM IST Amitabh Bachchan and Mukri worked together in films like Coolie, Sharaabi, Laawaris. (Photo: Express Archives)Amitabh Bachchan has been an actor in Hindi movies since the late 1960s, and over the last 57 years, he has worked with many talented actors across all ages but there were some actors, with whom he shared a great on-screen camaraderie and late actor Mukri was one of them. They worked together in films like Laawaris, Sharaabi, Coolie, among many others, yet upon Mukri’s passing in the year 2000, Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan did not attend the funeral. In a new interview, Mukri’s daughter Naseem Mukri, recalled the incident and shared that Rishi Kapoor came at 7 am, and was “crying like a baby” when he heard about Mukri’s death. In a