Deewaar (1975 film)

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Deewaar
Directed by Yash Chopra
Produced by Gulshan Rai
Written by Salim-Javed
Starring Amitabh Bachchan,
Shashi Kapoor,
Nirupa Roy,
Neetu Singh,
Parveen Babi
Music by Rahul Dev Burman
Cinematography Kay Gee
Editing by T. R. Mangeshkar
Pran Mehra
Distributed by Trimurti Films
Release date(s) 24 January 1975
Running time 174 min.
Country India
Language Hindi
IMDb profile

Deewaar, or Deewar (Hindi: दीवार, Urdu: دیوار), is a classic Indian movie, directed by Indian director Yash Chopra. Built upon the angry young man persona of Amitabh Bachchan, the movie came at a time when the lofty heights of freedom movements were dashed by the stark reality of corruption that had steeped into society. The story is unique because of the inherent moral ambiguity in the leading character; Bollywood films usually portray an unreal distinction between good and evil.

It is remembered for its powerful dialogue (Salim-Javed) and performances by the lead actor Amitabh Bachchan who was ably supported by Shashi Kapoor, playing the role of his younger brother. Amitabh Bachchan's character, Vijay Verma, is said to have been based on the life of the Mumbai gangster, Haji Mastan Mirza.[1] Deewaar followed Zanjeer, another path breaking movie for Amitabh Bachchan, though he lost the Filmfare Best Actor award to Sanjeev Kumar(Aandhi) that year.

Indiatimes Movies ranks Deewaar amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.[2] The film became a "superhit" at the box office in 1975, ranking in at number 4.[3].

The film was later, remade in Tamil as Thee (1980) starring Rajnikanth, Suman and Sripriya, and Telugu as Magaadu starring NTR and Ramakrishna.

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Story

The movie tells the story of two brothers, Vijay and Ravi Verma, who follow different career paths: Vijay is a smuggler and Ravi the policeman who is asked to hunt Vijay down. Vijay Verma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Verma (Shashi Kapoor) are the sons of a trade unionist, Anand Verma(Satyen Kappu), who was defeated and disgraced by the management of his firm using his family as bait. Unable to bear the public disgrace father deserts the family, and the sons are raised by their mother(Nirupa Roy)who brings them to Bombay City, who suffers the trials and tribulations of a poor single mother. Vijay Verma, the elder brother, grows up with an acute awareness of his father's humiliation and is victimized for his father's supposed misdeeds. In the process of fighting for his rights Vijay, who starts out as a boot polisher and becomes a dockyard worker in his youth, becomes a smuggler and a leading figure of the underworld.

His brother Ravi, on the other hand, receives an education as the elder brother sacrifices his education so that the at least one of them can get education becomes an upright police officer.

Ravi romances Veera (Neetu Singh), the daughter of a senior police officer. Vijay has an affair with Anita(Parveen Babi), a woman he meets at a bar. When Anita gets pregnant Vijay decides to abandon his life in the underworld, not wanting to pass onto his son the humiliation he received because of his father. But it is too late. Ravi decides to arrest Vijay, notwithstanding their family relation. Their mother sides with the law-abiding son even though the decision pains her greatly. The two brothers clash. Vijay dies in the encounter and Ravi is presented a police gallantry award by the State.

There were several stereotype breaking characters in Deewar such as bar dancer Anita (Parveen Babi) with whom Vijay has premarital sex. This was considered taboo at the time. Babi was beautiful and Nirupa Roy's, performance (in a role earmarked for Vijayantimala) was memorable.

But Deewar clearly belongs to Amitabh Bachchan. Gloriously rebellious, frightfully lonely and amazingly intense, his eyes seem to burn down everyone who crosses his path. The initial choice for Shashi Kapoor’s role was Navin Nishchal, but he did not want to play the second lead.

Cast

Credits

  • Director: Yash Chopra
  • Producer: Gulshan Rai (Trimurti Films)
  • Writers: Salim-Javed
  • Art Director: Desh Mukherjee
  • Chief Asst. Director: Ramesh Talwar
  • Editor: Pran Mehra
  • Lyrics: Sahir Ludhiyanvi

Awards & Nominations

Miscellanea

  • In 2004 a film with the same title Deewaar was released, again starring Bachchan in the lead. The film was not a remake.
  • Shashi Kapoor who played Amitabh Bachchan's younger brother in the film is actually four years older than Bachchan. (Similar to the way Roger Moore who is 3 years older than Sean Connery looks younger)
  • The screenplay of the movie is considered to be a classic and was part of the curriculum in FTII Pune
  • The original script did not have any provision for songs , the producer who did not want to deviate from the norm requested for songs to be added stating Picture Bahut sookhi hogi (The narrative will be very dry) to which the script writing duo quipped picture ka naam gili deewar rakh dijiye, (Call the movie Wet Wall).


References

  1. ^ Deewar
  2. ^ 25 Must See Bollywood Movies - Special Features-Indiatimes - Movies
  3. ^ BoxOffice India.com
  4. ^ 1st Filmfare Awards 1953

1. http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=181&catName=MTk3NQ==

2. http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf

External links

"Deewar" at the Internet Movie Database

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Rajnigandha		 Filmfare Award for Best Film
1975		 Succeeded by
Mausam
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