Known as the villain of Bollywood, danny denzongpa at one time used to shy away from working with the megastar amitabh Bachchan. 

He has a lot of trouble with his name, after which jaya bachchan advised him to change the name. Let us tell you that he played the role of villain in super hit films like 'Dhund', 'The Burning Train' and 'Agneepath'.

Danny Denzongpa, who is recognized as a strong villain in Bollywood, has proved his tremendous performance in many big hits in his career. Danny has worked in the hindi film industry for almost 5 decades. 

He played the role of villain in super hit films like 'Dhund', 'The Burning Train' and 'Agneepath'. Danny's performance was highly appreciated by the audience, but there was a time when Danny had a lot of trouble because of his name. 

Danny's real name is Tshering Phintso Denzongpa and he was advised to change his name by none other than Jaya Bachchan.

Danny used to shy away from working with amitabh bachchan, the name was changed at the behest of Jaya Bachchan.

This was told by Danny himself during an interview. He had told that 'While studying in FTII, he had met Jaya on the first day of college. Then both of them were in the exact cluster. 

When Danny was asked for his introduction during the orientation program in college, many people there did not understand his name and asked him to repeat the name again and again. 

Danny further explains 'There came a time when everyone started making fun of his name. At that time jaya bachchan came to him and he advised Danny to keep his name a little easy and he named him Danny.

During their early days in FTII, both Danny and Jaya became good friends. Danny was always a little shy about working with amitabh bachchan, who was recognized as the superhero of the century. Due to this, he also refused to play the role of gabbar singh in the film 'Sholay'. 

Apart from this, he had signed Feroz Khan's film 'Dharmatma' at that time. It was said that Danny was afraid that he might be seen in the same frame as Big B, but this thing changed in the year 1990 when both were seen together in Mukul Anand's 'Agneepath'.

Let us tell you that in the film 'Agneepath', amitabh bachchan was seen in the role of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan and danny denzongpa played the role of Kancha Cheena. 

At the same time, Danny gave an interview to Filmfare, in which he recalled the film and said, 'When Mukul anand told me about the role of Kancha Cheena with amit Ji in Agneepath, I knew that someone's role in my character. Won't even notice.