No this is definitely not a joke, but a seriously researched possibility according to researcher of past lives, Dr Walter Semkiw. Amitabh Bachchan had been linked to a plethora of beautiful actresses during his hey days and one of them was the sensuous Rekha. However according to Dr. Walter, Amitabh was a Victorian actor known as Edwin Booth during the 1860’s. And according to the researcher, Rekha is the reincarnation of Booth’s first wife, Mary Devlin Booth.