Dilip Kumar was the last superstar: Jaya

Amitabh Bachchan may be respected the world over as the biggest Bollywood megastar but his actor-politician wife Jaya Bachcchan begs to differ. She feels Dilip Kumar was the last superstar.

Amitabh Bachchan may be respected the world over as the biggest Bollywood megastar but his actor-politician wife Jaya feels Dilip Kumar was the last superstar.

"I don't believe in super stars. Anyway, I think there are no super stars now. Dilip Kumar was the last," said Jaya during an interaction with women journalists here.

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Jaya said among the current lot of Bollywood actors she has a special bond with Shah Rukh Khan.

"I have a special bond with Shah Rukh as I played his mother in a film (

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)," Jaya added. Asked if Shah Rukh was better than Amitabh, she said: "Of course not... you are asking a wife.?