The smoothness of dialogue delivery, rounded portrayal of characters, seductive angst, and ability to command the screen were still some years away. He had popped up in cameos and small appearances, sometimes playing himself. He had been paired with B-level heroines and directed by incompetent filmmakers. He had appeared in solo hero films that floated or sank as well as ensemble films in which he was either eclipsed by other actors or shared credit. Several productions featuring Bachchan made it to the cinemas after Zanjeer with mixed results, and it is only with Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay and Yash Chopra’s Deewar (1975) that Bachchan cemented his stardom.īachchan had not been idle. Bachchan was 31 years old at the time, and already a screen veteran when he signed up for a role that had been passed on by Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra, among others. Zanjeer was the sixth collaboration between Salim-Javed and the fifth film by Mehra.
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The movie marked Bachchan’s rise to stardom and inaugurated a fruitful period of anti-establishment movies featuring an inwardly boiling young man who lets his heat escape onto the streets and scorch the world around him.
In the role of a rule-breaking police inspector who teams up with a gambler to avenge the deaths of his parents, Bachchan extended the disgruntled hero persona that had been fitted on to other luminaries, including Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand and Vinod Khanna. This was the blockbuster that finally proved the worth of the unusually tall and unconventional looking actor with the floppy hair, brooding manner and rumble that seemed to come from a faraway place. Watch: Man walks perilously close to restricted lion’s enclosure in Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabadįor trade pundits who measure an actor’s career by the numbers of hits, Amitabh Bachchan’s career properly began only in 1973 with Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer.Malegaon blasts case: Court directs BJP MP Pragya Thakur to appear for all summons.FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Live updates: India trail early against France.In Bangladesh, the shrimp industry is driving a freshwater crisis.Readers’ comments: Demonetisation was like burning down an entire house to frighten a mouse away.Comedy watch: Woman justifies not winning corporate award to her family in hilarious sketch.Covid-19 cases are declining in India – but not because of vaccinations alone.33% of Muslims experienced religious discrimination in hospitals, finds Oxfam India survey.
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