Set in a small village, the film is about Moti, a young merchant of jaggery, a popular molasses cake distilled from the sap of date palms. Though the focus was on the timeless Nutan AB held his own with a powerful performance that left us hungering for more.Sudhendu Roy's Saudagar is a magnificent rural drama. The low moral values of AB’s character did not diminish the impact of his towering performance. Saudagar(1972): Fearless and unfettered by the demands of superstardom AB played a gur-seller who marries a widowed gur-maker( Nutan) for monetary benefits. This film came just before the release of Zanjeer and there are clear indications that the Angry Young Man was about to emerge from the shadows. Gehri Chaal(1973): Jeetendra played the hero to Hema Malini in this film while AB was cast as her brother trying to protect the family name from a dark secret. Reshma Aur Shera(1969): In a brief role as Sunil Dutt’s speech-impaired brother Chotu AB conveys so much of the anguish about the bloody feud that governs the lives of the two warring families who form the central core of the film.Solid presence even in a semi-cameo, AB proved it with this one.ĩ. But AB is dazzling in the scenes where he has to stand meekly as a lowly clerk in an office run by his abandoned wife.Gender equation deliciously tilted away from the man.Ĩ. The film has Mala Sinha in the author-backed role. In this early film AB starred as an indecisive man who dumps his wife Mala Sinha and remarried without telling the second wife( Aruna Irani) about the first.
Sanjog(1972): It’s not easy playing weak characters with such conviction. Go back to this film to watch the sequences where AB plots the murder of his love’s father Om Prakash. Parwana(1972): Absolutely the best performance by AB from his pre– Zanjeer days and still among his most unsung triumphs, AB plays a desperately in-love man who would go to any lengths, even murder, to get the girl he loves ( Yogeeta Bali). This is the only film where AB and Tanuja came together as Man and Woman. But if we go back to it we see how skillfully controlled AB was in playing the workingclass hero who rescues a friend( Anil Dhawan) from suicide and falls in love with a woman with a dubious past. Pyar Ki Kahaani(1972): Directed by Ravikant Nagaich who made mostly espionage thrillers, this remake of hit Tamil film was a resounding flop. Later the same story became Yes Boss.Small world.ĥ. SS plays AB’s boss, a married man in an affair with hapless working girl ( Neeta Khayani) whom AB secretly loves. Uneven yet striking for the tense chemistry between AB and Shatrughan Sinha. Raaste Ka Pathar(1972): Loosely adapted from Billy Wilder’s The Apartment ,this is an oddity of a film. Laxmikant Pyarelal’s immortal songs like Patta patta boota botta, Pehle sat baarand Hum hi Karen koi soorat went a long way in igniting the AB- JB chemistry.Ĥ. Just before this film AB and JB were seen together in the awful Bansi Birju.There is a certain fire burning between them even at this early stage. This is the second time that the two of them came together. Ek Nazar(1972): Again a poet! This is the third pre– Zanjeer film where AB plays a poet who falls in love with the the tawaif played by Jaya Bhaduri.
Mumtaz the top heroine of those days sportingly agreed to co-star with this “lanky brooding young man who spoke every line like poetry.” She had all the songs.
Bandhe Haath(1973): a thief and a poet, Amitabh Bachchan then struggling for footspace in the speeding train of stardom was remarkably signed up by the mighty O P Ralhan for a double role.
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