Deewaar (1975)
Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan - Vijay Verma
- Shashi Kapoor - Ravi Verma
- Nirupa Roy - Sumitra Devi (Mother)
- Neetu Singh - Veera Narang
- Parveen Babi - Anita
Deewar tells the story of two brothers, Vijay and Ravi Verma, Vijay and Ravi are the sons of a trade unionist, Anand Verma, who was defeated and disgraced by the management of his firm using his family as bait. Vijay's arm is branded with the words "My Father Is A Thief." Unable to bear the public disgrace, his father deserts the family. Their mother takes her sons and move to Bombay, where she raises them on her own with much trouble. Vijay, the elder brother, grows up with an acute awareness of his father's humiliation and is victimized for his father's supposed misdeeds. Vijay sacrifices his own education and starts to work in order for his younger brother to get a proper education and make something of himself. 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. Ravi on the other hand does well at schook and eventually becomes an upright police officer. While Ravi romances Veera, the daughter of a senior police officer, Vijay has an affair with Anita, a woman he met at a bar. When Anita gets pregnant Vijay decides to abandon his life in the underworld, not wanting to pass onto his son the humiliation he received because of his father. At this same time Ravi decides to arrest Vijay, inspite of their family relation and the two brothers clash.
Synopsis
who are as different as night and day: Vijay is a smuggler and his brother Ravi is a policeman. Ironically Ravi is the policeman chosen to catch Vijay and bring him to justice.
