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Amitabh Bachchan Career: Amitabh Bachchan’s 16 films flopped before the 1973 ‘Zanjeer’. His hope of becoming a successful actor was broken. Then Amitabh Bachchan got Prakash Mehra’s film ‘Zanjeer’, which he …Read more

Before ‘Zanjeer’, 16 films of Amitabh Bachchan were flopped.
Highlights
- Amitabh Bachchan’s 16 films were flops.
- Big B was done out of a movie.
- The success of ‘Zanjeer’ made a superstar.
Amitabh Bachchan was out of the film
He said, ‘Amitabh Bachchan was expelled from the world’s fair. The makers took him out of the film and took Sanjay Khan. His 16 films were flopped. Distributors started saying that if no theater would come after hearing its name. At that time his luck was not with him. But when luck supported, everything went well.
Kismet supported Amitabh Bachchan
Raza Murad told, when Prakash Mehra wanted to make chains, he went to stars like Dilip Kumar, Dharmendra, Dev Anand, Rajkumar, but for some reason everyone refused to do the film. Zanjeer was a completely hero-centric film. Still 4 big hero refused. No one knows why? But it can be said that luck wanted Amitabh Bachchan to become the hero of this film.
Zanjeer made Amitabh Bachchan a superstar
Diggj actor further said, ‘When Prakash Mehra had no option left, Jaya Bachchan (Jaya Bhaduri) suggested to the director to cast Amitabh Bachchan. Then Amitabh Bachchan came and the film started in the year 1973 and the story ahead became history. Fate is very important in the industry.
‘Chained’ proved to be a boon for career
‘Zanjeer proved to be a turning point for Amitabh Bachchan’s career. It was written by writer pair Salim-Javed. The dialogue of the film ‘This is the police station, your father’s house’ became a part of the pop culture. This film changed the definition of Hero in Bollywood. After this, Amitabh Bachchan never looked back. He had put a series of hit films one after the other like ‘Wall’, ‘Sholay’, ‘Don’.