Amitabh Bachchan has said that as a young man he tried to get a job at All India Radio and did not succeed. “Maybe my voice was not suitable for what they were looking for,” he said. His deep voice later became one of the best known in Indian film.
The radio host Ameen Sayani recalled that he was too busy to see the young Bachchan, who gave up after a few attempts. “I would have been on the streets and he would have got so much work on radio,” Sayani said.