Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Amitabh Bachchan | ... | Vijay Verma | |
Shashi Kapoor | ... | Ravi Verma | |
Nirupa Roy | ... | Sumitra Devi | |
Parveen Babi | ... | Anita | |
Neetu Singh | ... | Leena Narang | |
Manmohan Krishna | ... | DCP. Narang | |
Madan Puri | ... | Samant (as Madanpuri) | |
Iftekhar | ... | Mulk Raj Daavar (as Iftikhar) | |
Satyendra Kapoor | ... | Anand Verma - Father (as Satyendra Kapoo) | |
Sudhir | ... | Jaichand | |
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Rajpal | ||
Jagdish Raj | ... | Jaggi | |
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Kuljit Singh | ||
Raj Kishore | ... | Darpan | |
Yunus Parvez | ... | Rahim Chacha (Head porter) |
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. Written by gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
One of the best movies of Indian Cinema. This is a must see for all Bollywood movies lover. What a performance from Amitabh Bachchan!! I don't have words for it. I doubt anybody could make such a movie in future or anybody could act like Amitabh, God of Indian Cinema.
Loosely based on Haji Mastan's life, this movie portrays the life of Vijay from a dockyard worker to an underworld don. Legend is Amitabh Bachchan met Haji Mastan in a race course in Bombay before the shooting of Deewar started. He saw the moist eyes of Haji Mastan and was quite impressed with them. In an interview he said he tried his best to make his eyes look moist to add life to the character. Amazing script by Salim Javed and direction by Yash Chopra.