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India/1975/165 min/35mm
Director: Yash Chopra
Producer: Gulshan Rai
Screenwriters: Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar
Cinematographer: Kay Gee
Production Design: Desh Mukherjee
Editor: Pran Mehra
Music: R.D. Burman
Lyrics: Sahir Ludhianvi
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi
After a trade union leader sells out to save his family, he abandons his wife, Sumitra, and two young sons, Vijay and Ravi, to escape public ostracism. Sumitra struggles to raise the boys on her own. The elder Vijay takes on grueling work on the docks and suffers many humiliations to pay for his younger brother’s education. With social stigma and inequality marring his path, he soon takes up with a gang of smugglers, rising rapidly to the rank of leader. Meanwhile Ravi sets his sights on becoming a police officer and enrolls in the training academy. In short order, Vijay’s illegal activities afford him great wealth and property, but his ill-gotten success also creates a rift between the brothers as they stand poised on opposite sides of the law, with their beloved mother caught in the middle.
DEEWAR was an instant box office success that garnered seven Filmfare Awards including Best Film and Best Screenplay and helped to establish Amitabh
Bachchan as the “angry, young man” of Indian cinema.
Hindi (English subtitles)
Print Source:
K.S. Sasidharan
National Film Archive of India
Law College Road
Pune, Maharashtra 411004
India
Ph: 91 20 2565229
Fax: 91 20 25670027
nfai@vsnl.net
nfaipune.gov.in
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