Genre:Love story/Mystery
Year: 1971
This little known Big B movie features his first role as a villian.He did not play a villian for another 31years.Aankhen released in 2002 was his second movie as a villian.Since then he has played the bad guy in half a dozen movies.No one really knew Amitabh Bachchan back in 1971.He was only of the new batch of actors to enter the movies at that time and he was not considered as a future talent.Vinod Khanna,Shatrughan Sinha,Navin Nischol,Anil Dhawan(brother of famous director David Dhawan),Vijay Arora and some 4-5 other actors entered Bollywood at the same time.It is hard to imagine now but Nischol,Arora and Dhawan were being touted as future stars wheras Khanna,Sinha and Big B were regarded as least likely to succeed.Infact Big B was labeled a failed actor at that time.How wrong were they...
Now about the movie.The movie is basically a love triangle cum thriller.Kumar Sen(Bachchan) is a painter and sculptor whose is in love with his childhood friend Asha(Bali) but he is too shy to express his feelings to her.She lives with her uncle Ashok Varma(Om Prakash).On a vacation trip she falls in lovce with Rajeshwar(Navin Nischol).On her return she first shares this news with her friend Kumar.Kumar is heartbroken and pours her heart to Asha.Asha is shocked but tells him that nothing can be done now but she still thinks of him as one of her best friend.When Rajeshwar visits Mumbai,Sen is engulfed with jealousy.He goes to meet Asha's uncle to remind him of the promise he has made to Sen to hand Asha's hand to him.But the uncle says that he never promised anything and tells Sen to forget about Asha.Sen leaves the place furious.
The next day the uncle's dead body is found and from that point the movie turns into a mystery movie.Who really is the killer forms the second half of the story.Although Rajeshwar is arrested for the murder we soon find out that Sen is the real killer.What forms the second part of the movie is to how Sen plans the murder and then tries to cover his tracks.
Shatrughan Sinha makes a guest appearance as a public prosecutor.
This is a Big B movie all the way.Although he is the villian,he is the main character of the movie.His performance is chilling albeit a bit rough around the edges.The rest of the cast ably do their parts.A very young Vikram Ghokhale makes an appearance as a police inspector.He is the guy who played the Police commisioner opposite Big B in the cult movie Agneepath,released 19 years after Parwana.
It is not the best movie you will ever see but its a decent timepass movie.
Rating:5/10
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