Amitabh Bachchan married Jaya Bachchan in the year 1973. It has been 51 years since their marriage and both are living a happy married life. Before marriage Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya dated each other for some time. But do you know that Amitabh Bachchan married Jaya because of his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan? Jaya Bachan made another shocking revelation about Big B in an interview. Read on to find more details. Amitabh Bachchan narrated his and Jaya Bachchans love story in Simi Garewals chat show Rendezvous. He had told how he was impressed when he saw Jayas photo on the cover page of a magazine. Big B had revealed that he liked Jayas eyes a lot. Jaya had seen Amitabh Bachchan for the first time in 1970 at the Pune Film Institute and was impressed by his personality. During a conversation with her granddaughter Navya Nanda on her podcast What The Hell Navya Jaya Bachan revealed that Big B wanted Jaya not to do regular work after marriage. She further revealed that they were planning to get married in October assuming that her workload would be minimal. However Amitabh also told his wife to pick selective films and pick the right script and the right people. How Amitabh-Jayas love blossomed... Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya first met on the sets of the film Guddi. Both were cast in this film and they became friends there. After this both worked together in the film Ek Nazar and their love blossomed. Amitabh Bachchan used to meet Jaya secretly at his friend Chandra Barots house. Amitabh-Jaya were going to go on a foreign tour and then... Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya worked in the film Zanjeer which was a blockbuster at the box office. In this happiness the films director Prakash Mehra decided to take the star cast of Zanjeer on a foreign tour. But Big Bs father Harivansh Rai Bachchan did not like this and he put a condition. The condition of Harivansh Rai Bachchan was that if Big B wanted to go on a foreign tour with Jaya he would first have to get married. In such a situation Amitabh Bachchan had no other option and he secretly took seven rounds with Jaya in a temple in South Mumbai. During this time only his very close relatives and friends attended. The one who gave Amitabh Bachchan the idea of ​​marrying secretly near a foreign tour was none other than his friend Chandra Barot.