Deewaar is a 1975 Indian crime-drama film directed by Yash Chopra, written by Salim javed and starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi
Kapoor. Reflective of "the tumultuous politics of the early
70s" in India, Deewaar 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." This movie cemented the success of the
writing duo Salim-Javed, who went on to write many more blockbuster films, and
made them one of the most memorable writers in Hindi cinema. It is said that
after the success of this film, the value of film writers skyrocketed, thanks
to Salim-Javed, and they soon were being paid as high as some of the actors at
the time.
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 as the 4th highest grossing Bollywood film of 1975. India times ranks Deewaar amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films
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