Great Movie Pack: Deewar | 1975

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~ Movie Information: Deewaar ~

Cast: Shashi Kapoor - Ravi Verma, Amitabh Bachchan - Vijay Verma, Neetu Singh - Leena Narang, Nirupa Roy - Sumitra Devi, Parveen Babi - Anita

Director: Yash Chopra

Writer: Javed Akhtar

SUMMARY

The movie tells the story of two brothers, Vijay and Ravi Verma, who follow different career paths: Vijay is a smuggler and Ravi the policeman who is asked to hunt Vijay down. Vijay Verma (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Verma (Shashi Kapoor) are the sons of a trade unionist, Anand Verma(Satyen Kappu), who was defeated and disgraced by the management of his firm using his family as bait. Unable to bear the public disgrace father deserts the family, and the sons are raised by their mother(Nirupa Roy)who brings them to Bombay City, who suffers the trials and tribulations of a poor single mother. Vijay Verma, the elder brother, grows up with an acute awareness of his father's humiliation 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.

Trade unionist, Anand Verma, defeated and disgraced by the management of his firm using his family as bait decides to desert his family. Leaving two young sons, Vijay and Ravi Verma to be take care of by his wife, Sumintra Verma. Sumintra struggles day and night to bring up her two sons. Years later the family is still struggling, while Vijay works as a porter at a dockyard, all Ravi attempts at getting a job are all in vain but he romances Veera, the daughter of a senior police officer and finally gets a police job as a Sub-Inspector. One of his first assignments is to be apprehend and arrest some of Bombay's hardcore criminals and smugglers which includes his brother, Vijay - much to his shock, as he had never associated his very own brother of having any criminal background. Ravi must now decide to proceed on with apprehending Vijay, or quit from the police force. Written by Gavin

Trade Union Leader sells out to save his family, then unable to face the social ostracism deserts wife and 2 kids. Mother watches them grow up to become a cop and a gold smuggler, and has to choose one to live with. Then, the inevitable brother vs. brother climax. Written by Riaz Shaikh

Abandoned by her husband (Satyen Kappu), Sumitra Verma (Nirupa Roy) is saddled with two young sons, and must live on a day to day basis. Years later, the family is still struggling. Her elder son, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) is a porter in the Bombay docks; her younger son, Ravi (Shashi Kapoor) is unemployed and romancing the Police Commissioner's only daughter, Leena Narang (Neetu Singh). On the Commissioner's suggestion, Ravi applies for employment with the police, and is sent for training. Several months later, he is accepted by the police, and has a rank of Sub-Inspector. When he returns home, he finds that Vijay has become a businessman overnight, has accumulated wealth, and a palatial home. When Ravi finds out that Vijay has acquired wealth by crime, he decides to move out alongwith his mom. Vijay must now decide to carry on with this criminal activities or join his mom and brother, and lead a honest life. Written by rajoo