Amitabh Bachchan couldn't sleep for two days after Aishwarya Rai was injured, arranged Anil Ambani's private plane to...

Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai have worked together in several films such as Mohabbatein, Khakee, Hum Kisise Kum Nahin, and Sarkar Raj. While filming the 2004 action thriller Khakee in Nashik, Aishwarya suffered an injury on the sets. Amitabh had then arranged Anil Ambani's private plane to take her back to Mumbai.

Talking about the incident, Amitabh told Rediff, "We were shooting for Rajkumar Santoshi's Khakee on the road outside Nashik. The stuntman drove too fast, at 60, 70 kilometres per hour, and skidded. All of us jumped out of the way. But Aishwarya Rai and Tusshar Kapoor couldn't move fast enough. The car slammed into her chair. It was terrifying."

"The car hit her and took her down a crevice and slammed into a cactus plant. Akshay Kumar pulled the car out and extricated her. We rushed her to hospital. We had to go through terrible crowd management problems. I have gone through this 'VIP syndrome' before. Thank God the hospital and doctor were very good. The commissioner of police in Nashik organised everything", he added.

The superstar shared how Anil Ambani's private plane was organised to send the actress back to her home as he stated, "I asked Aishwarya's mother if she wanted to take her daughter back to Mumbai. We organised Anil Ambani's private plane. Since there is no night landing facility in Nashik, we had to take permission from Delhi to land the plane at the military base which is 45 minutes away from the hospital. The seats had to be removed from the aircraft."

The media portals, at that time, had reported the accident as a small incident. Criticising such people, Amitabh concluded, "And everyone is brushing it off as a small incident blown out of proportion. For two nights I couldn't sleep. To see this happen in front of my eyes! Her back was lacerated with cactus thorns. The bone in the rear portion of her feet is broken. She suffered severe cuts. And her injury was reported as trivial."

In 2007, Aishwarya became Amitabh's daughter-in-law when he married his son Abhishek Bachchan. The Guru couple welcomed their daughter Aaradhya Bachchan in 2011.