Deewar (दीवार) 1975

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Banner	Trimurti Films Pvt. Ltd
Director	Yash Chopra
Writer	Salim-Javed
Producer	Gulshan Rai
Orginal music	R.D.Burman
Cinematography	Kay Gee
Film Editing	T.R. Mangeshkar,Pran Mehra
Art Director	Desh Mukherjee
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Playback Singers	Asha Boshle, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Bhupendra Singh, Ursula Vaz, Usha Mangeshkar

Character	Actor/actress
Vijay Verma (the elder brother)	Amithab Bachchan
Ravi Verma (the younger brother)	Shasi Kapoor
Sumitra Devi, Vijay & Ravi's Mother	Nirupa Roy
Leena Narang	Neetu Singh
Anand Verma, Vijay & Ravi's Father	Satyendra Kapoor
Anita	Parveen Babi
DCP Narang	Manmohan Krishna
Samant	Madan Puri
Mulk Raj Dhabaria	Iftekhar
Jaichand	Sudhir
Jaggi	Jagdish Raj
Darpan	Raj Kishore
Rahim Chacha, Head porter	Yunus Parvez
Peter's Henchman	Mohan Sherry
Young Vijay Verma	Alankar Joshi
Young Ravi Verma	Raju Shrestha
Lachhu	Rajan Verma
Chander's Father	A.K.Hangal
Mother	Dulari
Mr. Agarwal	D. K. Sapru
Anand Verma's Employer	Kamal Kapoor

Deewaar tells the story of two impoverished brothers who grow up to follow different career paths: Vijay is a smuggler and Ravi a policeman who eventually must hunt down Vijay. Vijay's character is said to be loosely based on real life smuggler Haji Mastan.[by whom?]

The film opens with the strong leadership of trade unionist, Anand Verma (Satyen Kappu), who works hard to enhance the lives of struggling laborers. He lives in a modest home with his wife, Sumitra Devi (Nirupa Roy), and their two young sons, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi Verma (Shashi Kapoor). Anand, however, is blackmailed by a corrupt businessman who threatens to kill his family if Anand does not cease his activities. Forced into compliance, Anand is thus attacked by the very same laborers who once supported him. His family is also persecuted by the angry workers who brand young Vijay's arm with the words: "Mera baap chor hai" in Hindi translated into "My Father Is A Thief." Anand then runs away forcing his wife and two children into destitute poverty. Not knowing what else to do, Sumitra Devi brings her children to Mumbai and struggles as a day laborer to care for her now homeless boys.

Vijay, the elder brother, grows up with an acute awareness of his father's failure 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. He also sacrifices his own education so his brother Ravi can study. Ravi is an excellent student and grows up to become an upright police officer. He is also dating Veera (Neetu Singh), the daughter of a senior police officer. Vijay, on the other hand, becomes involved with Anita (Parveen Babi), a woman whom he meets at a bar. When Anita becomes pregnant, Vijay decides to abandon his life in the underworld, marry her, and confess his sins. He also hopes to seek forgiveness from his mother and brother. However, when Anita is brutally attacked by rival members of the underworld, Vijay loses all sense of rational behavior, leading him to be branded a criminal forever. Their mother, who had sided with Ravi despite the fact that Vijay was her favorite, is tormented by Vijay's decisions and rejects him. When the two brothers meet for a final clash, however, it is Vijay who dies in her arms seeking forgiveness and Ravi who is awarded for pursuing justice.

Release Date	1/1/1975
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"Deewaar" is noted for having "swept the 1976 Filmfare Awards except for the Lead Actor, for which Amitabh Bachchan was nominated.

Filmfare Awards

Won:Best Film (Gulshan Rai)
Won:Best Director (Yash Chopra)
Won:Best Supporting Actor (Shashi Kapoor)
Won:Best Story (Salim-Javed)
Won:Best Dialogue (Salim-Javed)
Won:Best Screenplay (Salim-Javed)
Won:Best Sound (M. A. Shaikh)
Nomination: Best Actor (Amitabh Bachchan)
Nomination: Best Supporting Actress (Nirupa Roy)