India, Oct. 11 -- On Amitabh Bachchan's birthday in 2002, Jaya Bachchan gave an interview to Subhash K Jha for Hindustan Times about her husband. Talking about writing a book named To Be Or Not To Be for him as a gift that year, Jaya spoke about her favourite Big B movies, how she believes he's being shortchanged in the film industry and more. On Amitabh's 83rd birthday today (October 11), looking back at the HT Archives.

When Jaya listed out her favourite Amitabh films, they all seemed to have one thing in common - her husband in a grey role. "Jyoti Swaroop's Parivana, where he played the negative role of a man who murders the father of the girl who spurns his love, Sudhendu Roy's Saudagar (again a negative role of a gur-seller who cons...