Deewaar, or Deewar is a 1975 Indian drama directed by Yash Chopra, written by Salim-Javed, and starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor. According to an article based on Haji MASTAN , it is largely based on the life of the smuggler Haji Mastan whose real life story is very similar to Amitabh's role in the fim .Reflective of "the tumultuous politics of the early 70s" in India, Deewar tells the story of two impoverished brothers who, after their family is betrayed by the misplaced idealism of their father, struggle to survive on the streets of Mumbai.
Deewaar was a ground-breaking work. It was one of a few films which established Bachchan as the "angry young man" of Bollywood cinema and Parveen Babi as the "new Bollywood woman" whose character Anita is "a liberated working girl, smoking, drinking and sleeping with her lover, defying every Hindi film heroine rule. "
Deewaar received the Filmfare Best Movie Award of 1975 in addition to six other Filmfare Awards and was a "superhit" at the box office, ranking in at number 4. Indiatimes ranks Deewaar amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.
Plot :
Deewaar tells the story of two impoverished brothers who grow up to follow different career paths: Vijay is a smuggler and Ravi a policeman who eventually must hunt down Vijay.
The film opens with the strong leadership of trade unionist, Anand Verma (Satyen Kappu), who works hard to enhance the lives of struggling laborers. He lives in a modest home with his wife, Sumitra Devi (Nirupa Roy), and their two young sons, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Verma (Shashi Kapoor). Anand, however, is blackmailed by a corrupt businessman who threatens to kill his family if Anand does not cease his activities. Forced into compliance, Anand is thus attacked by the very same laborers who once supported him. His family is also persecuted by the angry workers who brand young Vijay's arm with the words: "My Father Is A Thief." Anand then runs away forcing his wife and two children into destitute poverty. Not knowing what else to do, Sumitra Devi brings her children to Mumbai and struggles as a day laborer to care for her now homeless boys.
Vijay, the elder brother, grows up with an acute awareness of his father's failure and is victimized for his father's supposed misdeeds. In the process of fighting for his rights Vijay, who starts out as a boot polisher and becomes a dockyard worker in his youth, becomes a smuggler and a leading figure of the underworld. He also sacrifices his own education so his brother Ravi can study. Ravi is an excellent student and grows up to become an upright police officer. He is also dating Veera (Neetu Singh), the daughter of a senior police officer. Vijay, on the other hand, becomes involved with Anita (Parveen Babi), a "loose" woman whom he meets at a bar. When Anita becomes pregnant, Vijay decides to abandon his life in the underworld, marry her, and confess his sins. He also hopes to seek forgiveness from his mother and brother. However, when Anita is brutally attacked by rival members of the underworld, Vijay loses all sense of rational behavior, leading him to be branded a criminal forever. Their mother, who had sided with Ravi despite the fact that Vijay was her favorite, is tormented by Vijay's decisions and rejects him. When the two brothers meet for a final clash, however, it is Vijay who dies in her arms seeking forgiveness and Ravi who is awarded for pursuing justice.
Awards and nominations :
Deewar is noted for having "swept the 1975 [Filmfare] Awards except for the Lead Actor, for which Amitabh Bachchan was nominated."
Filmfare Awards
* Won:Best Film (Gulshan Rai)
* Won:Best Director (Yash Chopra)
* Won:Best Supporting Actor (Shashi Kapoor)
* Won:Best Story (Salim-Javed)
* Won:Best Dialogue (Salim-Javed)
* Won:Best Screenplay (Salim-Javed)
* Won:Best Sound (M. A. Shaikh)
* Nomination: Best Actor (Amitabh Bachchan)
* Nomination: Best Supporting Actress (Nirupa Roy)
Influence on other films :
The film was later remade in Tamil as Thee (1980) starring Rajnikanth, Suman and Sripriya, and in Telugu as Magaadu (1976) starring NTR and Ramakrishna. Naam was also influenced by Deewar and was written by one of Deewar's cowriters. British director Danny Boyle, who described Deewaar as being “absolutely key to Indian cinema”, cited the film as an influence on his Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire (2008).[12] Actor Anil Kapoor noted that some scenes of Slumdog Millionaire "are like Deewaar, the story of two brothers of whom one is completely after money while the younger one is honest and not interested in money."
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