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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. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] The music ...
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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...
Javed Akhtar says today, people look at the film and see the socio-political and socio-economic elements in the film. (Satish Bate/HT PHOTO) Bachchan: For me, it was another job. Fortunately, post ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Predictably, the long-suffering mother is the moral centre. Neetu Kapoor played Veera, the archetypal angel-of-the-house. But in addition to these characters, there was also another woman, Anita (Parveen Babi). Not much is known about her life, except that she is often found in bars sipping on alcoholic beverages and smoking cigarettes.
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.
Deewaar is, in one word, taut. From start to end, the movie is unrelentingly tense, tight, somber and serious but the seriousness of the film works for two vital reasons: the absolutely amazing, scorching and explosive under-acting by Amitabh Bachchan; and the screenplay and dialogs by Salim-Javed.
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May 30, 2017 · Thank you, Shashi Kapoor, for ‘Deewar’. Aaqib Raza Khan. Updated: 04 Dec 2017, 6:24 PM IST. Movie Reviews. 7 min read. i. (Shashi Kapoor breathed his last on 4 December. This review of Deewar ...
