Essential Hindi popular cinema classic and a pioneer entry of the 1970’s Indian crime films. This is the breakthrough film of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, seen here in his “angry young man” persona for the first time. The people behind this was Salim-Javed, a screenwriting team who were responsible for bringing in a hardhitting socially-slanted style in Hindi cinema, penning such classics as Deewar, Sholay and Trishul.
The plot is a revenge story in the mould of the spaghetti western Death Rides a Horse, with Bachchan witnessing the murder of his parents as a child, and a chain on the murderer’s wrist acting as a flashback device…Read More »