Big Bachchan’s Birthday Watchlist

It’s Amitabh Bachchan’s Birthday, who just turned 79.And we cannot help but think about some of his greatest hits in the 70’s! Amitabh Bachchan has built quite an empire for himself from 50 years. 

Known as the former Angry young man, he has given us some of the most memorable hits and today we are making the most perfect watchlist celebrating his 79 years. 

1.    Deewar

All Vijay wanted was his mother’s love and his descent into crime, his succumbing to the lure of easy money was but a means to put a smile to her mother’s lips. His conflict with his younger brother Ravi, played by Shashi Kapoor was another highlight of the film, their confrontation scene has become the stuff of legend. The film has become famous for Mere Paas Maa hai... the retort by Shashi Kapoor to his elder brother when the latter starts listing his ‘achievements.’

 

   A movie that still holds the first place in every Big B’s fan ever.

  2.Zanjeer

 

 Zanjeer, which began with Bachchan seeing a bolting horse in a nightmare and ended with him having avenged the death of his parents, is a gritty portrayal of an honest cop’s life in microsome. It’s full of low life’s and bent characters and shows how police have to befriend criminals. His best friend is a Pathan goon who reformed his ways to gather insights and info.

 

 Pran as Sher Khan, a local dada with tremendous clout, too gave a lionhearted performance as a man who’s ready to sacrifice his own life for a friend.  Jaya Bhaduri played a street gipsy who falls in love with the morose inspector and gives him some reason to smile. Real-life love blossomed on the sets between the two stars and soon, they got married.

 

 

This movie set the ground for new age movies like Singham, the cop multiverse. 

 

3.Don

 

Don (Amitabh Bachchan) is a ruthless criminal who is always one step ahead of the police. When Don is killed in an encounter, D’Silva trains Vijay to be Don, who agrees to it because of the money. Vijay, as Don, enters the underworld and is once again the toast of the crime world. Unknown to Vijay, Roma (Zeenat Aman), the sister of a man Don had killed, had infiltrated the gang in order to kill Don. D’Silva is unfortunately killed and there is no one who can now vouch for Vijay’s real identity. The police think he’s Don and the underworld knows he isn’t. Thankfully Roma now helps him and so does Jasjit (Pran) the father of the two children he was caring for. The three overcome great odds and get the real underworld mastermind arrested. One of the first crime thriller masterpieces bollywood has ever seen.

 

4.Agneepath 

One of the most celebrated classics, still a favorite from the 70’s bollywood era. Amitabh

Bachchan has played Vijay in innumerable films but his introductory scene in Agneepath, where he says his full name, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, became a rage when the film released and has become an iconic dialogue ever since. Even today, young hopefuls are said to practice the famous Bachchan drawl as they struggle to master those three crucial words. The film carried shades of Al Pacino’s Scarface (1983).

 

 

5.Paa

Amitabh Bachchan played a witty 12-year-old boy suffering from the rare genetic disorder called progeria, which ages children rapidly. Here, he reverse-aged himself in the sense that he was playing someone with the physical age of a 70 plus person but the mental agility of a twelve-year-old. His layered acting, as well as energy, was indeed beyond a parallel. The film’s protagonist Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), who is a gynaecologist. His mother has hidden his existence from his biological father, young politician Amol (Abhishek Bachchan), who didn’t want a child at that point of their relationship.

 Amol meets Arko at a school function where he is called as the chief guest and befriends the brilliant boy. Arko makes it the mission of his life to reconcile the differences between his mother and father. 

The movie is beauty personified, as the roles are reversed in real life, Abhishek Bachchan plays the role of Amitabh Bachchan. Have you seen something more poetically justified in cinema than this?

 

6.Shamitabh

 

Danish, a mute man from Igatpuri whose childhood dream was to become a Bollywood actor, reaches Mumbai to fulfill his dream. He tries to enter Film City, but gets stopped by the guards there. He trespasses the gate and comes across an assistant director, Akshara Pandey, who is amazed by his acting. She approaches a director for requesting a role for Danish in a film, but the director refuses after he comes to know that Danish cannot speak. The two of them come up with a foolproof plan with the help of a doctor and live voice transfer technology. 

The story goes well at first but then the events take altered turns. 

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