Trishul (1978) User Reviews

About love, betrayal, revenge, and human relationships.

[Peter_Young · 8/10 · 2 September 2009]

Yash Chopra's films are mainly about love, whatever love it may be. This story revolves around R.K Gupta, a wealthy businessman whose illegitimate son, Vijay, comes to take revenge on him because of his late mother Shanti's loneliness and miserable life. Back in time, Gupta was deeply in love with Shanti, but his ambitious mother convinced him to marry his rich employer Din Dayal's only daughter Kamini so that he could find success in life. And he did. And now, Vijay, painful and lonely, is decisive to use every possible way to destroy his father, whether it's his business or his personal life, while Gupta does not even know who he is.

Beautiful and poignant, the film's most impressive aspect is the portrayal of upper-class Indian people and their relationships. It deals mostly with people who are wealthy, modern and intellectual, yet they have great values which are very Indian. The film shows hidden feelings, ego, love, respect and different basic principles of life. There were many scenes which were touching and exciting, many of which showed how great humanity can be. I personally was moved by the scenes where Vijay meets his father and siblings for the first time. My two favourite scenes (or better called moments) include one scene between Vijay and his father's wife Kamini after a particular accident (you'll know what I'm talking about), and Vijay's scene with his secretary/love interest Geeta, played by Raakhee, when he asks her to stay with him when he feels very lonely and depressed.

The film quite clearly belongs to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan who delivers a very sincere performance as the serious, decisive and deeply hurt Vijay. He is good-looking, convincing, and delicately lets the viewer sense his character's pain, pride and determination. Sanjeev Kumar gives another example of his extraordinary acting talent. Shashi Kapoor is very good as Shekhar although his feel-good attitude tends to be a bit exaggerated at some points. Raakhee is brilliant as Geeta, the faithful, honest, intelligent and loving secretary. Hema Malini takes a break from her vivacious and comic roles, and is restrained as the modern and lovely Sheetal. Waheeda Rehman is simply outstanding and makes a remarkable impact with her brief role of Shanti. Poonam Dhillon is quite pretty, and Prem Chopra is as hateful as ever.

Overall, Trishul is one of Yash Chopra's most underrated films. A beautifully written drama, it has everything a Yash Chopra movie is known for: a moving story, exceptional dialogues, fantastic music, good emotions, great actors and a very lifelike depiction of relationships, love and circumstances. It is interesting, well directed and well narrated, and should provide a pleasant watch for any Hindi cinema lover.

The translation is horrible on the DVD(message to non-Hindi speakers)

[corrupt200 · 9/10 · 30 January 2005]

I don't speak or understand Hindi (though I'm contemplating teaching myself), so I was glad to know that the the DVD came with English subtitles. However, when I watched the DVD, I realized that the translation was so sloppy. The subtitles do not read complete sentences. Further more, there is a huge period in the movie, where there are no subtitles at all!!! I thought that I'd have to call up one of my cousins to listen and translate the movie for me.

I had not seen such sloppy translation since I watched an old video of Marlene Dietirch's "The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel". Only in that case I was learning German, so I was not so annoyed.

However, the movie shows how versatile Sanjeev Kumar was as an actor. First you see him playing a jolly, romantic, caring man. He even wanted to help Shanti after learning about her preganancy. Then when he gets older, we see him playing a temperamental jerk, and the contrast is shown so well. The movie showed that he was good at playing both good people and villains.

I thought the ending was beautiful. Although Raj dies, we realize that he is still a good person, who decided to take a bullet for Vijay and die so that he will not ruin the developing relation between Vijay and his half-siblings. It was sweet at the end, when Vijay renames his company Shanti Raj Constructions...sign that he eventually forgave Raj.

Big B seeks revenge from Sanjeev through business

[jmathur_swayamprabha · 7/10 · 12 June 2014]

Revenge! Revenge! Revenge! At a point of time during the seventies, almost every third Bollywood movie was being made on the theme of revenge. Sometimes, the story was given the backdrop of banditry and sometimes that of smuggling. However the purpose remained the same in every case - settling score with and teaching a lesson to the wrongdoer(s).

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan's makers in the real sense who only arranged the Angry Young Man tag for him - Salim-Jaaved wrote a brilliant drama for the extra-ordinarily popular hero which was a revenge drama coupled with a family drama, quite different from the routine revenge sagas being made like assembly line production in that period. This unrealistic yet highly impressive movie is Trishul(1978), a multi-starrer made by Gulshan Rai and directed by none other than the legendary filmmaker Yash Chopra.

In Trishul(trident), our hero Vijay(Amitabh Bachchan) seeks revenge from his estranged father Raaj Kumar Gupta(Sanjeev Kumar) who had ditched his mother Shaanti(Waheeda Rehmaan) for the sake of marrying Kaamini(Geeta Siddharth) to get her wealth and make it big in life. He indeed makes it big in his life and becomes the biggest construction contractor of the region. He begets one son - Shekhar(Shashi Kapoor) and one daughter Babli(Poonam Dhillon) through his marriage with Kaamini. On the other hand totally alone and resourceless Shaanti fosters her son Vijay with a lot of difficulty but teaches him only one thing - self confidence. Vijay comes to learn that with self-confidence, one can achieve everything. And when his dying mother tells him about his father and what he had done to her, he uses this the only asset of his(self confidence) to settle score with him. The activities of Vijay and his interaction with R.K. Gupta and his family form the bulk of the narrative and keep the audience hooked for two and a half hours in which Vijay seeks his revenge from his father by becoming his business competitor.

Right from Vijay's setting in to seek his revenge(or his mother's revenge) from R.K. Gupta, the complete script runs in typical Salim-Jaaved style of the seventies - blows and counter-blows, checks and checkmates, frequent twists in the tale happening at such a speed that the viewer does not get any time to pause and ponder over what's being shown to him and just keeps on watching holding his breath and finally, lots of action. Most of the masaala movies starring Amitabh Bachchan were made in this style only but Trishul puts itself in a league of its own. There is a heavy dose of sentiments in the action-studded drama and it is underscored both subtly and loud that the hero is the hero because he is capable of doing anything and achieving anything purely riding on the strength of his guts and confidence. However the script is totally unreliable because the way the completely resourceless hero becomes a big construction contractor in a very short period, is possible in fiction only.

Yash Chopra has presented the very fast-paced drama on the screen with elegance. Despite lots of cinematic liberties taken in the script, the characters do not appear unreal and they are able to leave their mark on the audience. No character has been ignored in the huge star cast assembled for the movie, may it be Shashi Kapoor or Raakhee or Hema Maalini or Sachin or Poonam Dhillon or Younus Parvez. Especially Raakhee emerges high through her well-written role(of Geeta, an honest employee of R.K. Gupta) in this male-dominated movie. And the narrator has very skillfully shown that Vijay and Geeta gradually come close to each other without showing any romance between them which is something highly laudable.

Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar are two pillars of the script and both of them have lived up to their reputation. Sanjeev has brought a typical businessman with a professional mindset alive on the screen who keeps the practical aspect of life above personal sentiments whereas Amitabh Bachchan is the popular angry young man of that era expressing his anger sometimes in a controlled way and sometimes a little bit loud. The script has given them ample moments to take on and outwit each other on the screen and they outshine each other on different occasions.

All others including the debutante Poonam Dhillon have done quite satisfactorily. Prem Chopra is the typical Bollywood villain and he has performed stylishly.

The movie is studded with action and fight scenes associated with Amitabh Bachchan in that era. Today, it's a pleasure to watch such action on the screen when the larger than life hero beats many baddies single-handedly.

The production value of the movie is according to the repute of the banner. It's a technically superior movie. Editing is so sharp that seldom do we get a moment to relax throughout the duration of the movie.

Music by Khayyam is not great but not bad either. Tu Mere Saath Rahega Munne, Mohabbat Bade Kaam Ki Cheez Hai, Gaapuchi Gaapuchi Gam Gam, Jaaneman Tum Kamaal Karti Ho etc. are all quite good to listen and have also been presented on the screen very well.

The title of the movie is perhaps as such because the grief in the heart of the hero(due to the injustice done to his mother) keeps on hurting him like a trident.

It's one of the blockbuster movies of Big B, i.e., Amitabh Bachchan and renders abundant entertainment even when watched today. I wholeheartedly recommend this evergreen movie to one and all.

Tense Drama for Angry Young Man

[uncle_g1234 · 8/10 · 19 November 2006]

This is one of Amitabh Bachchan's Angry Young Man action movies. In this one, he is the illegitimate son of a big industrialist. The industrialist, when he was a young man, got a woman pregnant, but at his mother's insistence he married the boss' daughter and left his girlfriend to raise the illegitimate son in poverty. The son, named Vijay Kumar, makes a solemn vow to get justice for his mother by humbling the father who wouldn't take his responsibility as the father of her child.

Well, as they say its a pretty good movie. Bachchan gives the usual intense performance. Sanjeev Kumar plays the father in the classic style. Waheeda Rehman is the wronged mother. Later in the plot, Shashi Kapoor shows up as Shekhar, RG Gupta's legitimate son by the boss' daughter. And Hema Malini shows up as Sheetal, Shekhar's love interest.

Shashi also played Amitabh's brother in the good son-bad son drama Deewar.

Good things for ME were Hema. She was just a gorgeous screen presence back then and every smile warmed things up. In a way, Hema played herself as the confident, ambitious woman. Probably not too hard a role for her.

And Bachchan's acting. He's always the most riveting present on the screen. Prem Chopra was pretty good as the oily rival. I also liked Rakhee Gulzar as Geeta.

Not too much I didn't like about the movie, but I found some of the songs kind of disruptive to the flow of the story. They weren't badly shot or anything, they just seemed out of place.

There was some cleverness in the script. For a while, as business rivals, Gupta and Vijay play kind of a chess game. The screenplay is by Javed Akhtar and shows some intelligence.

So, I guess I can give it an 8/10.

Excellent !

[shivcs · 9/10 · 22 November 1999]

Trishul is one of Bachchan's best movies. The role of Vijay was tailor made for him. Yash Chopra has created another master piece with this movie. It was a super-hit, running for more than 100 Weeks. The song 'Mohabbat bade kaam ki' is a very good song.

Weak Directing. Average Melodrama. Super Star !

[elshikh4 · 28 September 2010]

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).

Do not give birth to children without wedlock. Creates ruckus.

[g_aparna · 6/10 · 24 June 2015]

Watched the film – after a long time again – with a mature brain @ Zee Classic! Pre-requisite (to understand the review ) – You have watched the film.

This film was released in 1978. So how many Indian citizens understood that:

Males should not sleep around before wedlock. (How Sanjeev Kr. suffered at ripe old age when son Amitabh (born outta wedlock) ruins his life – every moment of it)

Females should not sleep before wedlock. (How Waheeda Reheman gave birth to a fatherless child and filled vengeance into him since early childhood…refer song. Main tujhe doodh na bakshungi, tujhe meri kasam! )

The above 2 points should basically be the 'Take Home' for the commoners – citizens of India.

Unfortunately – the film failed to convey its message effectively. All that happened was that movie tickets were sold for black …and several cassettes were sold since the songs of this film were super hits. Which meant more 'power' to the film Industry – the reason why today they have the money to spend 30 crores on a single Item song & dance (I need not elaborate on the quality of the dance steps & the attire worn…not worn)- This point is especially for those people who say things like "God gives money to the rich people only" – correction – God does not give – You give to buy misery!

So what was probably the 'Take Home' for the then youths (now grand fathers) was the swim-suit clad slim body of Poonam Dillon. (Gaapuchix2 gum gum song) Inference:: We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning!

Classic Amitabh

[Ibuk · 9/10 · 2 April 2009]

I have been a fan of Bollywood cinema since a very young age and I am very ashamed to admit that until a couple of weeks ago I had not seen Yash Chopra's masterpiece Trishul. After hearing so many people rave about it I gave it a go and very glad I did. For those who don't know already the story involves Amitabh taking revenge on his father(Sanjeev Kumar) who abandoned him and his mother. His father is a businessman so Amitabh sets up a rival business and sets out to destroy him. I think Trishul is a wonderful tale of how people are motivated by different things, Amitabh's father is motivated by money and power whilst Amitabh is motivated by revenge.

To support Amitabh and Sanjeev Kumar there is a wide array of great actors, for instance Shashi Kapoor,Rakhee and Waheeda Rehman(in a special appearance as Amitabh's mother). The wide array of actors for me were basically props in a movie what is essentially a battle between Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh. Both Amitabh and Sanjeev Kumar both resort to dirty tricks to discredit the other. Amitabh and Sanjeev Kumar were excellent but I felt they were even better in Sholay together. I only watched this movie a couple of weeks and is quickly becoming one of my top five Yash Chopra's movies along with Lamhe,Dewaar,Silsila and Chandni. Highly recommended to all fans of classic Bollywood.

Awesome movie by Yashraj and Amitabh/Sanjeev Kumar

[silvan-desouza · 7/10 · 29 September 2011]

Yash Chopra and Amitabh was a great pair in 70s after the superhit DEEWAAR(1975) and KABHIE KABHIE(1976)

TRISHUL released in 1978 when Amitabh had 4 hits in a row, others being MUQADDAR KA SIKANDAR, DON and KASME VAADE

The film is a superb movie by Yash Chopra + Amitabh

It has a very different story about fight for legitimacy by an illegitimate child which was remade several times in films by Yash Chopra himself in his bad days with trash like VIJAY(1988) and PARAMPARA(1993) and later by David Dhawan in a worst YEH HAI JALWA(2002)

The film starts with Sanjeev and Waheeda's romance followed by Sanjeev marrying his boss's daughter. Amitabh is introduced lighting a dynamite and walking over with such a swagger and style that only Bachchan could do. We are introduced to Shashi Kapoor in a light flirting scene with a girl in airport and then starts the best part when Amitabh clashes with Sanjeev Kumar Their scenes are the highlight of the film and here the clash is not much through fights but through business tenders.etc We do have fight scenes of Amitabh/Shetty and some more with some other goons but too limited

The film keeps you on tenterhooks only disrupted when the romance angle of other stars(Shashi/Hema and Sachin/Poonam) start and the songs

Just like DEEWAAR there are no songs on Amitabh/Rakhee which also continued in KAALA PATTHAR(1979) yes there is a small interlude in the song MOHABBAT BADE KAAM KI

The film is brilliant and though it gets lengthy at times but yet it is one of the best films by YRF

Direction by Yash Chopra is superb, He does a great job handling the drama Music by Khayyam is superb too, Mohabbat Bade Kaam Ki is the best one and all songs are superb, Here too Kishore is a voice for Shashi and not Amitabh just like DEEWAAR Dialogues are power packed

Amitabh excels in his tailormade role, every expression, dialogue leaves such a huge impact. Yash Chopra and Amitabh were a great team and always gave their best together Sanjeev Kumar too is superb in his chameleon kinda character He suits the role and his chemistry with Amitabh is superb though he was hardly in his 30s he suits the 50+ character well Shashi is relegated to the background mostly though he does have some moments, He does a great job Though he doesn't get much importance compared to DEEWAAR and KABHIE KABHIE Amongst rest Rakhee does a great job, in 1978 she paired with Bachchan in other blockbusters too like MQS and KASME VAADE Here too she does a great job Hema Malini is good too and looks nice, Poonam Dhillon is okay Sachin is awkward Prem Chopra does a good job as the bad guy Waheeda leaves a mark in a cameo

The angry young man returns

[gurdeepmann59 · 8/10 · 26 June 2012]

Amitabh and Shashi and Shashi and Sanjeev and all three in Trishul made by Yash Chopra who later remade this film into VIJAY(1988), PARAMPARA (1991) and even worser David Dhawan's YEH HAI JALWA(2002)

The film starts with Sanjeev-Waheeda romance and then Amitabh comes in with a stylish swagger that only Amitabh could do After an emotional talk with his mom, Vijay comes to Mumbai to find R.K. Gupta

Shashi always got the flirting scenes and shared good chemistry with Hema. But Rakhee impressed as the genius secretary of Amitabh Her chemistry with Amitabh was awesome

Direction by Yash Chopra is superb, He does a great job handling the drama Music by Khayyam is superb too, Mohabbat Bade Kaam Ki is the best one and all songs are superb, Here too Kishore is a voice for Shashi and not Amitabh just like DEEWAAR Dialogues are power packed

Amitabh excels in his tailormade role, every expression, dialogue leaves such a huge impact. Yash Chopra and Amitabh were a great team and always gave their best together Sanjeev Kumar too is superb in his chameleon kinda character He suits the role and his chemistry with Amitabh is superb though he was hardly in his 30s he suits the 50+ character well Shashi is relegated to the background mostly though he does have some moments, He does a great job Though he doesn't get much importance compared to DEEWAAR and KABHIE KABHIE Amongst rest Rakhee does a great job, in 1978 she paired with Bachchan in other blockbusters too like MQS and KASME VAADE Here too she does a great job Hema Malini is good too and looks nice, Poonam Dhillon is okay Sachin is awkward Prem Chopra does a good job as the bad guy Waheeda leaves a mark in a cameo

Bachchan at what he does best!

[HeadleyLamarr · 8/10 · 24 July 2008]

Trishul has a better cast than Kaala Patthar, but IMO the latter is the better film. Yes, Trishul has Sanjeev and when did he ever fail to satisfy? But his character is most undeveloped in my opinion. In the beginning it is clear that he loves Waheeda, is forced by his mother to marry the rich man's daughter, is torn when she announces she is expecting his child - so he is not all bad. But would just that one act of weak caving-in make him more and more extreme in his dealing with people? No fault at Sanjeev's door, he did a very good job with the material given him. Rakhi was just there, Sachin and his lady, not needed other than to stage a coup against the patriarch. Shashi was quite good, as was Hema - their love story was convincing. Amitabh yet again stole the show with his simmering rage and outrage at the abandonment of his mother. The fight scenes were so real, but the story was somewhat predictable. This one, like Kaala Patthar, was also mostly focused on the story and did not rely on too much romance or songs.

One thing I like about these oldies from Yash Chopra is the very matter-of-fact dealing between the sexes. In Kaala Patthar Shashi invites Parveen to stay with him after she is thrown out, tells her he lives by himself, and without any coyness she accepts. In Deewar the relationship between Amitabh and Parveen is most matter-of-fact. In Trishul the same goes for the relationship between Waheeda and Sanjeev. And these were educated people, not from the lower strata - yet they did not have the prudishness one sees on display in modern fare.

Trishul is a very good film.

[hemapande1975 · 10/10 · 15 June 2006]

Trishul is Amitabh Bachchan's block buster film of year 1978. Film is based on father and son's relationship. Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar done so well in this film. Other characters are only have time-pass work. Shashi Kapoor worked as side hero. His work in this film is only to flirt girls and sing songs. Rakhi is Amitabh Bachchan's heroine. Her roll is only to tell quota of cement to Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan. Hemamalini is Shashi Kapoor's heroine. She looked so beautiful in bell-bottom pants and shirts in song "Jaaneman Tum Kamal Karti Ho" In this song She wear four types of pant-shirts. I think she is so comfortable in pant-shirts. Otherwise she always wear saris in films. Another search of this film is actress Poonam Dhillon. She looked so amazing in this film. She also wear lot of bell-bottoms and pants in this film. This Punjaban make space in Ur heart. Overall film is colorful with bell-bottom pants and shirts.

Dissecting setups with elan!

[avisheksahu99 · 8/10 · 16 March 2022]

Setups are inevitable when heroism is the norm in the age of realities within realities in a way everything qualifies as virtual reality. While tenuous at best as realization essential to get by, the realization when imbibed as trap rather than as enabler can get you through troubles like troubles can't be rationalized with dope, dope, or dope.

Trishul

[IPyaarCinema · 8/10 · 12 June 2021]

Review By Kamal K

Trishul - produced by noted producer Gulshan Rai and directed by Yash Chopra - relied primarily on Amitabh Bachchan's simmering intensity and volcanic angst. He played Vijay, a man with a mission to get even with his biological dad R. K. Gupta (Sanjeev Kumar) who had ditched his mother (Waheeda Rehman) to marry a wealthy heiress. Vijay's revenge is not physical but rather an emotional one wherein he wants to destroy his father's business empire. Vijay even conspires to win over Sheetal (Hema Malini) whom his R. K. Gupta's legitimate son and Vijay's step bro Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor) is in love with.

Salim Javed's script wasn't perfect - it had its share of cinematic liberties like a young engineer Vijay with no money or clout becoming a top businessman almost in a jiffy to take on the might of an established business tycoon like R. K. Gupta. But the audience chose to overlook these fallacies only due to Bachchan's charisma and star power to pull off the role of Vijay - an otherwise anti-hero who touches your heart just by his belief and conviction in what he is doing.

Yash Chopra's direction was extraordinary and this is my personal favourite from his illustrious resume - a film he chose to remake again as Vijay (1988) with Anil Kapoor in Bachchan's role but that film turned out to be a box office dud.

Not many know that Gulshan Rai wasn't too happy at the trial show held when the film was around seventy percent complete. Yash Chopra too agreed with his producer that there was something missing in Trishul and he huddled up with Salim Javed to finetune the screenplay further. Amitabh's ambulance wala fight scene was added to the plot which later became the film's highlight. That bit of re-work benefited the film tremendously and it ended up being the second highest grosser of 1978 after Prakash Mehra's Muqaddar Ka Sikandar.

Trishul earned a Filmfare award nomination for Bachchan which he lost to himself for his performance in Chandra Barot's Don (1978). As the saying goes, One should only compete with oneself!

Trishul" is known for its well-crafted screenplay, which weaves together various plot threads and emotional arcs

[disharma-24131 · 10/10 · 16 July 2023]

"Trishul" is a classic Bollywood film released in 1978, directed by Yash Chopra and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor and Sanjeev Kumar. As a classic film, "Trishul" has stood the test of time and is still considered an important film in Indian cinema.

The film tells the story of Vijay Kumar (Amitabh Bachchan), who seeks revenge on his father, Raj Kumar Gupta (Sanjeev Kumar), a wealthy businessman, who abandoned Vijay and his mother after his birth. Vijay grows up to be a successful construction businessman and sets out to destroy his father's business empire as a form of vengeance. Seeking vengeance, Vijay encounters his half-brother Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor), who is unaware of their shared family history. The film explores themes such as family, love.

One of the main highlights of "Trishul" is the stellar performance by the cast. Amitabh Bachchan, known for his intense and impactful screen presence, delivers a stellar performance as Vijay Kumar. His portrayal of a man consumed by anger and driven by a desire for justice is captivating and memorable. Showcasing his versatility as an actor, Sanjeev Kumar shines as the complex character of Raj Kumar Gupta. Shashi Kapoor brings depth and emotional vulnerability to his role as Shekhar, striking a perfect balance between strength and weakness.

The film also has strong supporting performances from Waheeda Rehman, Rakhee Gulzar and Hema Malini, who add layers to the story and enhance the overall impact of the story.

"Trishul" is known for its well-crafted screenplay, which weaves together various plot threads and emotional arcs. The film effectively traces the dynamics between the characters, highlighting their conflicting motivations and desires. The dialogues penned by the acclaimed duo of Salim-Javed are sharp and impactful, leaving a lasting impression on the audience.

The music of "Trishul" composed by Khayyam is another highlight of the film. The soulful tunes, especially the evergreen songs "Gapuchi Gapuchi" and "Mohabbat Bade Kaam Ki Cheez Hai", continue to resonate with audiences even after decades.

Overall, "Trishul" is a classic Bollywood film that combines powerful performances, engaging storyline and memorable music. It is a must watch for Amitabh Bachchan fans and lovers of Hindi cinema as it represents the essence of masala entertainer with a mix of emotions, drama and action.

Some movies cannot be remade.

[hXz0r3 · 10/10 · 2 October 2021]

This is a marvelous example of same.. Great story line and acting by almost all of the characters.

Really worth watching such old gems.

Fantastic performance from Amitabh.

[nadkarnisumeet · 9/10 · 5 May 2021]

Trishul review:

"Main Uss Shanti ka beta hoon Mr. R. K. Gupta ...aur aap mere NAAJAYAZ BAAP hai".

Trishul - produced by noted producer Gulshan Rai and directed by Yash Chopra - relied primarily on Amitabh Bachchan's simmering intensity and volcanic angst. He played Vijay, a man with a mission to get even with his biological dad R. K. Gupta (Sanjeev Kumar) who had ditched his mother (Waheeda Rehman) to marry a wealthy heiress. Vijay's revenge is not physical but rather an emotional one wherein he wants to destroy his father's business empire. Vijay even conspires to win over Sheetal (Hema Malini) whom his R. K. Gupta's legitimate son and Vijay's step bro Shekhar (Shashi Kapoor) is in love with.

Salim Javed's script wasn't perfect - it had its share of cinematic liberties like a young engineer Vijay with no money or clout becoming a top businessman almost in a jiffy to take on the might of an established business tycoon like R. K. Gupta. But the audience chose to overlook these fallacies only due to Bachchan's charisma and star power to pull off the role of Vijay - an otherwise anti-hero who touches your heart just by his belief and conviction in what he is doing.

Yash Chopra's direction was extraordinary and this is my personal favourite from his illustrious resume - a film he chose to remake again as Vijay (1988) with Anil Kapoor in Bachchan's role but that film turned out to be a box office dud.

Not many know that Gulshan Rai wasn't too happy at the trial show held when the film was around seventy percent complete. Yash Chopra too agreed with his producer that there was something missing in Trishul and he huddled up with Salim Javed to finetune the screenplay further. Amitabh's ambulance wala fight scene was added to the plot which later became the film's highlight. That bit of re-work benefited the film tremendously and it ended up being the second highest grosser of 1978 after Prakash Mehra's Muqaddar Ka Sikandar.

Trishul earned a Filmfare award nomination for Bachchan which he lost to himself for his performance in Chandra Barot's Don (1978). As the saying goes, One should only compete with oneself!!

Regards, Sumeet Nadkarni.

A good action pack by Gulshan Rai

[gavin_coolhgr · 23 November 2007]

Trishul is the story of Amitabh Batchchan who was born out of wedlock, his mother passed away and he goes to Bombay in search of his father Sanjeev Kumar. On arrival his father has changed into a very successful businessman. He, however, also found out that he has got a half brother. But nothing interests him, since he goes to Bombay to take revenge from his father because he though his father made his mother died and there he started his misery in destroying Mr. RK Gupta (Sanjeev Kumar). But at the end it was a twist in story. Where father got to like son. And son got to like father. The movie also starring in Shashi Kapoor, Prem Chopra & Rakhi Gulsar etc. They helped to add more spice to the food.