As a movie, it's average. The story is a bit smart, but without the usual Indian spices. This is definitely not a Masala, just a good old portion of melodrama shown through a non-bloody revenge story. The thing is the factors of uniqueness are few or none. The directing is vexatious; it isn't forceful or flashy, only simple at best. It gets the required without much talent. The music isn't influential enough, no song was memorable. The cinematography didn't express anything; the image is so poor to say the least.
Then we come to the matter of acting. Most of the cast did their jobs well, especially (Amitabh Bachchan) and (Sanjeev Kumar). But there is a reliance on their charisma more than anything else. The rest ranged between usual; (Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee, Prem Chopra) and weak; (Poonam Dhillon as Bubbly the lead's half sister). Noticeably, (Chopra) does a role that he did, and would redo, for endless times where the only difference is his haircut!
Little naive points were her and there as well; for instance, how the dad didn't think even for a second of the name of his competitor's company, which's the same name of his old love, the one who carried his son once?!, how the lead did have the money to build this company in the first place?, or the photo of that dead mother hanging on the wall, oh my god, nobody ever has a photo of this kind at all; it seemed that they took it right after her death!
Add to that, coincidences; like when the lead meets his half sister before seconds of her car accident. I didn't care much about how (Bachchan) fought 10 men alone with just his bear hands, maybe because it was unquestionable matter back then, or maybe we purely love that!, but I did care about the enmity between him and (Prem Chopra)'s character caused by the last's single badmouthing towards the first's - not known about yet - father, which was too fabricated for my taste.
However, there are nice moments even if rarely, like how the 2 breathers met each others for the first time, unknowingly about everyone's fact, with accident hug, or the handshake between the father and his illegitimate son with blood. Not to mention, the double meaning, always pungent, one liners: "There are things in life Mr. Gupta more important than money.", or "I thought it was my blood in my hand.", etc.
All in all, it's a story that I met hundreds of times before in old Egyptian movies and soap operas, done as formulaic as ever; with the last confrontation, the action, beating the evil, and - as I predicted miles away - the death of the unfair father as a late penance. The problem is that it doesn't have more to it artistically this round, and the power of it wasn't so powerful by any mean.
Anyway, I love (Bachchan)'s movies. And his performance at that phase was so fresh and quiet. But despite knowing that this movie is considered now one of his classics, it isn't a good one for him in my book. I believe that the reason why it was a hit at its time got a lot to do with the melodrama, the revenge theme, and the blaze of a young superstar named (Amitabh Bachchan).
Then we come to the matter of acting. Most of the cast did their jobs well, especially (Amitabh Bachchan) and (Sanjeev Kumar). But there is a reliance on their charisma more than anything else. The rest ranged between usual; (Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee, Prem Chopra) and weak; (Poonam Dhillon as Bubbly the lead's half sister). Noticeably, (Chopra) does a role that he did, and would redo, for endless times where the only difference is his haircut!
Little naive points were her and there as well; for instance, how the dad didn't think even for a second of the name of his competitor's company, which's the same name of his old love, the one who carried his son once?!, how the lead did have the money to build this company in the first place?, or the photo of that dead mother hanging on the wall, oh my god, nobody ever has a photo of this kind at all; it seemed that they took it right after her death!
Add to that, coincidences; like when the lead meets his half sister before seconds of her car accident. I didn't care much about how (Bachchan) fought 10 men alone with just his bear hands, maybe because it was unquestionable matter back then, or maybe we purely love that!, but I did care about the enmity between him and (Prem Chopra)'s character caused by the last's single badmouthing towards the first's - not known about yet - father, which was too fabricated for my taste.
However, there are nice moments even if rarely, like how the 2 breathers met each others for the first time, unknowingly about everyone's fact, with accident hug, or the handshake between the father and his illegitimate son with blood. Not to mention, the double meaning, always pungent, one liners: "There are things in life Mr. Gupta more important than money.", or "I thought it was my blood in my hand.", etc.
All in all, it's a story that I met hundreds of times before in old Egyptian movies and soap operas, done as formulaic as ever; with the last confrontation, the action, beating the evil, and - as I predicted miles away - the death of the unfair father as a late penance. The problem is that it doesn't have more to it artistically this round, and the power of it wasn't so powerful by any mean.
Anyway, I love (Bachchan)'s movies. And his performance at that phase was so fresh and quiet. But despite knowing that this movie is considered now one of his classics, it isn't a good one for him in my book. I believe that the reason why it was a hit at its time got a lot to do with the melodrama, the revenge theme, and the blaze of a young superstar named (Amitabh Bachchan).