Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines. A mysterious caller continually phones Inspector Khanna to inform him exactly when a crime is about to take place, but hangs up before Khanna can extract any more information out of him. For all the latest Entertainment News, download Indian Express App. [4], Salim-Javed were responsible for discovering and casting Bachchan. Prakash Mehra had seen Dev Anand’s Kala Pani and offered him Zanjeer, but Salim-Javed felt it would have been a casting disaster. Well, Jaya Bachchan was also not the first choice for the film. But does it matter? The film follows the story of a village Thakur who throws away a boy and his mother from their village. His career-changing role  in Zanjeer was first offered  to  Dev Anand and Raj Kumar. But Zanjeer belongs more to Bachchan than Pran. In the pre-Covid world, there would have been nation-wide birthday celebrations. Five decades on, Zanjeer remains a Hindi cinema classic, visited and revisited often by fans and academics alike in the hope of shedding new light on the Bachchan mania. Released in 1973, the action film Zanjeer starred Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Pran, Ajit Khan and Bindu. While promoting Zanjeer 2.0, ... Not many of the present generation would know that the role portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer was initially offered to Dev Anand, Dharmendra and Raj Kumar. He receives complaints about a local man, Sher Khan (Pathan) (Pran), who is running gambling dens. Abhimaan was a musical drama starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani and Bindu in the lead roles. Ever since Zanjeer, Salim–Javed wrote many of their subsequent scripts with Bachchan in mind for the lead role, and insisted on him being cast for their later films, including blockbusters such as Deewaar (1975) and Sholay (1975), establishing Bachchan as a superstar. Written by Shaikh Ayaz | Mumbai | October 11, 2020 7:36:59 am Amitabh Bachchan is celebrating his 78th birthday today. Zanjeer was one of the first films of Amitabh Bachchan for which he received the tag as ‘angry young man’. [2] According to Javed Akhtar, they "saw his talent, which most makers didn’t. Pran is a necessary accessory while Jaya Bhaduri, who was to marry Bachchan right before his sharp rise to Bollywood’s winners’ circle, plays his love interest in Zanjeer, appearing in the film’s worst number, “Chakku churiyan tez kara lo.” Even the peripatetic, lowest-bill street-side performers, dancing on “Deewane hai deewano ko na ghar chahiye” with Bachchan and Bhaduri viewing the performance from their window and internalising it, got a better song. Her sister then comes back to take revenge from the man. The trail of tainted moonshine leads back to Teja and his men. Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan in Zanjeer. Know More Facts. Several other films were also made where the hero was an angry person but the way Amitabh Bachchan did it, nobody else could manage that. More than anyone else, its runaway success took its leading man by surprise. Zanjeer: Little known facts about the original and the remake! Bindu was one of the most prominent actors of Bollywood during the 70s.