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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › DeewaarDeewaar - Wikipedia

    Deewaar (transl. The Wall) is a 1975 Hindi-language Indian action crime film written by Salim–Javed and directed by Yash Chopra. [4] [5] The film stars Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan, alongside an ensemble cast of Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi, Iftekhar, Madan Puri, Satyen Kappu and Manmohan Krishna.

  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0072860Deewaar (1975) - IMDb

    Deewaar: Directed by Yash Chopra. With Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Babi. Vijay struggles as a dockworker and eventually becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while his younger brother Ravi is an educated, upright policeman.

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    • Action, Crime, Drama
    • Yash Chopra
    • 1979-05
  4. 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.

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    Deewaar is the story of two brothers, Vijay and Ravi Verma, who follow widely divergent paths as adults – Vijay is a dockyard worker and later smuggler, while Ravi is the honest cop. When the management threatens to harm his family, their father an honest trade union leader is forced to sign an agreement that betrays the workers’ interests. Unable ...

    Deewaar is an iconic, epic film in the history of Indian cinema – it is remembered as much for Indian superstar, Amitabh Bachchan’s portrayal of the ‘angry man’ 1 as for its complex portrayal of sociological and political realities of contemporary India. The film is set in the seventies, when the ‘imagined community’ 2 of the nation was being threa...

    1. See Mazumdar, pp. 1–40 for a discussion of Deewaar and on-screen rage. 2. As Benedict Anderson famously defines it in Imagined Communities (1983). 3. Prasad, p. 120. See pp. 117–37, for an exegesis of this moment in India’s socio-political history. 4. Ibid. 5. For more parallels with Haaji Mastaan, see Virdi, p. 6. 6. Prasad, p. 148. See detaile...

    [Country: India. Production Company: Trimurti Films. Director: Yash Chopra. Producer: Gulshan Rai. Screenwriters: Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar. Cinematographer: Kay Gee. Editors: T. R. Mangeshkar and Pran Mehra. Music: R. D. Burman. Cast: Amitabh Bachchan (Vijay), Shashi Kapoor (Ravi), Nirupa Roy (Mother), Parveen Babi (Anita).]

    Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1983. Alka Anjaria, ‘Relationships which have No Name: Family and Sexuality in 1970s Popular Film’, South Asian Popular Culture, 2012, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 23–35. Munni Kabir, Talking Films: Conversation with Javed Akhtar, Delhi: Oxford Unive...

  5. Jan 17, 2020 · Directed by Yash Chopra from a Salim-Javed script, Deewaar remains a career-high for everyone involved including megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who fronts the proceedings as the intense Vijay (a character loosely inspired by don Haji Mastan) with Shashi Kapoor playing his younger brother Ravi.

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  6. Deewaar takes the art of the zoom to higher ground. A landmark of 70s Indian action cinema, it takes a host of ingredients from different parts of the world ( On the Waterfront star wattage and working-class themes, Hong Kong kung-fu aesthetics, the Bombay musical touch) to create a complex morality tale in its own class.

  7. Two brothers (Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan) head for a showdown when one becomes a policeman, and the other, a criminal. Yash Chopra, Salim-Javed, and Amitabh Bachchan changed the face...

    • Crime, Drama, Action
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