Bachchan’s guest appearances (updated)
Jaban (Bengali — 1972)… scene in Hindi..
Dost (1974)
Ahsaas (1979)
Garam Masala (1972)
Chashme Badoor (1981)
Jalwa (1987)
Kunwara Baap (1974)
Choti Si Baat (1975)
Charandas (1977)
Golmal (1978)
(starts at 2.20 min mark)
September 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM
http://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/footage-from-shelved-bachchan-parveen-babi-starrer/
September 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Wow great collection,
Golmaal was the best and served twin purpose of promoting bothe the movies. LOL !!
September 10, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Mukerjee was at his most sly in this film!
September 10, 2009 at 5:39 PM
agree !
September 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM
The Jalwa scene is priceless – thanks for putting this up, Satyam.
September 10, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Review the Jalwa clip and see the body laguage of AB in very last second, SRK copies this to the hilt !!
September 10, 2009 at 5:45 PM
this too is like a mirror scene… also like the Chashme Badoor one..
on a related note:
http://satyamshot.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/dilip-kumar-and-amitabh-bachchan-play-mirrors/
September 10, 2009 at 6:58 PM
Yeah this is a great collection, but that Jalwa one is priceless. Garam Masala, um, less so.
September 10, 2009 at 7:17 PM
JALWA and CHASHME BUDDOOR were both made for the same producer I believe – Gul Anand.
September 11, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Ive never seen Charandas, wow what a revelation seeing both AB and Dharmendra together.
Yeh Dosti will always remain as a peak in the pantheon of bwood male-bonding songs. And the magic was entirely due to these two. They somewhat recreated it in “ek rasta do gaadi” (Ram Balram), and this song once again highlights the tremendous energy/chemistry that both these guys brought to the screen when they were together.
September 11, 2009 at 1:25 PM
yeah they worked very well together.. this is the sort of thing that is always comparatively rare in a film industry.. because of the competition involved stars are rarely this generous with co-equals (or indeed even lesser stars) in a film. This wasn’t the case with Dharam or Bachchan. We have now reached the point in Bollywood where stars don’t even want to appear with interesting supporting actors, let alone stars. After the 70s Bombay cinema offers very few examples of a strong supporting cast (Anil Kapoor indulged in the obscenity of chopping Chunky Pandey’s role in tezaab.. if you can’t handle Chunky you have other problems!).
The greatest Indian cinema (perhaps ever) in this context (at least among those I have seen) has possibly been the Malayalam cinema of the 80s for the simple reason that here the gap between the lead stars and the ‘character actors’ was most effaced to really create very seamless narratives. Because stars in many ways tend to dominate their narratives or certainly ‘distract’ from the other elements beyond a point. This is the paradox of stardom. A ‘parallel text’ (if you will) is created. Hence even great directors do not really work with the greatest stars unless they feel they can account for that ‘stardom’. In an Amol Palekar film no one sticks out. In a masala film everything operates at an epic scale and even the great star isn’t necessarily out of place. But it is the somewhat less commercial enterprise or the more subdued one that is trickier when it comes to incorporating stars. Hrishikesh Mukerjee always marvelously understood where Bachchan was in his career and hence his films always accounted for his increasing stardom. A film like Main Azaad Hoon (though it had other problems as well) did not. The same holds true for many films Bachchan has done in this past decade. But getting back to Malayalam cinema in the 80s you had two giants in Mohanlal and Mammootty who had the gift of really blending into the world of the film. Now it’s fair to suggest that at that point these stars weren’t generally making the most epic masala ventures otherwise. But nonetheless it is admirable to see these stars really become ‘Amol Palekar’ for their films. In other words the gesturality was kept suitably under control. And even in this decade there are films that have the stars engage in a much more flamboyant body language (especially Mammootty) to match the demands of more larger than life roles. Of course in the 90s this industry changed altogether for all sorts of reasons but that’s a different story. While it lasted the whole ‘concert’ of lead stars and supporting cast members that Malayalam cinema of the 80s represents was pretty much unequaled anywhere else, let alone surpassed. This entire period is so rich for so many reasons, it really is a shame that more of it isn’t available with proper subtitles and so forth. of course much of it just isn’t easily available in any sense! It remains a hidden treasure in world cinema. I especially feel the loss because pound for pound the Mukerjee and Chatterjee films of the 70s are my favorite films from Bombay (Bachchan is a different matter but I don’t like the Amol Palekar films ‘less’). The Malayalam films are really up my alley (a bit of a cultural connection here as well) and while I’ve been fortunate enough to see a fair number there is a vast universe that remains unexplored. If I could at this point have access to just one period of any cinema, anywhere in the world, this is what I would want keys to before anything else.
November 21, 2009 at 8:08 PM
wow, woderful collection, satyam. had forgotten how gorgeous Mr B used to be. and how much like him Abhishek is!! everyone says how much like Jayaji he is. but i think not. he is completely his father’s boy!!
November 21, 2009 at 8:34 PM
gosh!! what’s with my typing skills?!! that’s meant to be ‘wonderful’, with an ‘n’ in there. while on malayalam cinema, have always enjoyed the supporting cast performances much more than the leads. KPSC Lalita, Jagathy Sreekumar, Thilakan, Innocent, and many more whose names I can’t recollect right now. And Mohanlal’s performances from his early films…..koodungkattu nadakunu kombanaanna parakunnu. wonder if i got that name right… a tongue twister for a non-malayalam user mallu like me!! a priyadarshan film, is it? i wish priydarshan would make ‘intelligent’ comedy movies with Abhishek. not the inane Akshay kr ones.
November 21, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Another Malayalam film viewer! Great! Much as I enjoy the supporting cast in this cinema I am also an insane fan of Mammootty and Mohanlal. Not sure what film you’re referring to! I’m guessing it’s one of the following two:
Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu
Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu
Of these I haven’t seen the first one regrettably though I know it’s one of Priyan’s very well known films. GF or CG here are better placed to offer an opinion. I have seen the second one mentioned here and love it.
Unless it’s not a Priyadarshan film at all. At any rate I don’t think your title is a valid one, even loosely if I’m not mistaken!
“a tongue twister for a non-malayalam user mallu like me”
very sorry to hear this!
November 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Yes it is Mazha Peyyunnu Maddalam Kottunnu. I haven’t seen the 2nd one. And please don’t get on my case for not using Malayalam. Also frankly most mallu films are tedious to the point of boredom. Used to watch a few with my Mom when she was alive. It was only the supporting cast performances that kept me going. Another performer I enjoyed was Urvashi.
November 21, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Just kidding earlier! As someone who discovered Malayalam cinema late I have quite the opposite reaction. I find the cinema of the 80s to be India’s very best in this sense, i.e. taking the average film and setting it up against the average film in Tamil or Hindi (regrettably I can’t speak for Bengali cinema..). The best films here are priceless gems to my mind in the best traditions of Basu Chatterjee and Hrishikesh Mukherjee and sometimes politically sharper than either director. Similarly Mammootty and Mohanlal are my two favorite star-actors in Indian cinema after Bachchan. I’m surprised you find them tedious as having seen about I would guess about 50 or so films and leaving aside some of the junk from the 90s I find this cinema extremely watchable. From the 80s in fact I can watch even a below average film rather easily. The supporting cast is fine in these works for sure but Mohanlal and Mammootty are titans!
What is your favorite cinema from India out of curiosity? Films, filmmakers?
November 22, 2009 at 7:26 AM
Satyam you honestly know and appreciate so much, I mean, SO MUCH, about cinema in all its splendour, that I’d feel like quite an anpadh ganwar trying to discuss cinema with you!!
Favourite films….in case you haven’t guessed till now…anything with Abhishek in it!!! I can sit thru Rakth to watch One love, Neal n Nicki to watch him say one line in a song, Salam namaste to hear him introduce each character and play “myself Dr Vijay Kr Srivastav” towards the end, the 2nd Munnabhai film to watch him come on as Sunny in the climax, endless reruns of Naach, Run, Kuch Na Kaho, Dus, not to mention Yuva, Guru, Dostana, even a Bengali film called Antar Mahal. Somehow I didn’t quite like Dhoom, neither 1 nor 2, and always give Dhai Akshar and Tera Jadoo a wide berth!!!
Alright, wait, I did live a life before Abhishek, so there have to be some other names… like his father..all the 70′s movies especially the Hrishikesh Mukherjee..Salim-Javed ones…no I think all…Reshma Shera, Saudagar, et al.I’ve enjoyed a no. of Jayaji’s films… Uphaar, Piya ka Ghar, and of course Guddi … which we used to be shown every year without fail at our school for Children’s day, with the last scene missing!!! For a long time I thought that the movie ended with Utpal Dutt climbing up the stairs to the terrace!!! It was only much later that I caught the actual ending on TV.
I know how pathetic I must sound here. So I’m going to make an attempt at some high-brow stuff. I loved Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Elipathayam and completely identified with Jagannathan’s character… reminded me of one of my uncles!! I love all of Charlie Chaplin’s films, and think the world of Balraj Sahani. Yup, thats it. Thats as high-brow as I can go!!!
By the way(back to my favourite topic), I read Abhishek’s tweets everyday, but desist from tweeting myself, since I don’t want to embarrass the living daylights out of the poor fellow, gushing all over him. Also Twitter seems to be a place for kids… I’d feel like such an out-of-place Auntyji there!!
November 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM
I wish it were true that I knew a lot about cinema but unfortunately it isn’t. If a monstrous appetite when it comes to watching films could be equated with education in the medium I’d gladly accept your terms but regrettably that’s not the case.
I have only seen two Adoor films and Elippathayam is one of them and I found it brilliant.
Thanks for your passionate comment!
October 6, 2011 at 1:59 AM
Wow another Balraj Sahani fan! Welcome to the club!
May 19, 2010 at 2:10 PM
I have always loved this song..
May 21, 2010 at 2:44 AM
Mammooty is my favourite too other than Mohanlal! I have really enjoyed the few tamil films Mammooty has acted in inclding Mouna Sambandam, Aayagan (K Balachander), Kandukondein-2 and Dalapati (Ratnam).
On my last holiday in Kerala, I picked up a lot of Mohanlal movies. On my next visit to India, I plan to pick up Mammooty’s malayalam movies – i have a big list !
I am on board with you Satyam about the 70s hindi movies of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee. One of the new movies “Meerabai Not Out” in fact reminded me of the Mukerjee/Chatterjee films ie the way a middle class family has been realistically portrayed. I think Pritish Nandy shd step up his marketing strategies. I had never heard of this movie and happen to see it accidentally on a 2 in 1 DVD. I really enjoyed this movie and would recommend this to all. It is a pity that this is one of the movies which seems to have not got any attention even in blogland!
October 6, 2011 at 2:03 AM
can someone pl. suggest some genuine thriller movies to watch in this week end?
October 6, 2011 at 9:18 AM
I cant think of a thriller right now but if you like Horror films, might wanna give OSO or RNBDJ a try.
October 7, 2011 at 6:18 AM
LMAOO ..
February 24, 2012 at 6:29 AM
..or just read rajen’s comments (complete horrors)
February 23, 2012 at 10:06 PM
@Rajen, I think Ram Gopal Verma ki aag and Nishabd will be better ones for this genere.
February 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM
king khan,
Reading your nonsensical comments in every post is ‘horror’ enough !
February 24, 2012 at 6:22 AM
Very refreshing.
I’ve seen only Golmaal, Choti si Baat and Chashme Badoor so the others were like watching a ‘new’ film of ABsr.
The qawwali in Jalwa is great.
My interest has been piqued by Garam Masala.
Can anyone throw light on this film?
Looks like a female oriented film who isn’t sexuallly objectified
It interests me that a woman has *other* things to do to, certain aims.
February 24, 2012 at 6:24 AM
correction:
‘Charandas’ not ‘Jalwa’.
February 24, 2012 at 8:04 AM
BTW- question to Satyam– and everybody else on this blog- what’s your list of top 10 filmmaker working in Hindi cinema right now?
February 24, 2012 at 9:25 AM
don’t think I could do a top 10 of contemporary directors. Either they haven’t made enough films or the few that they have are interesting but not necessarily impressive in a huge way or else they have enough of a body of work and these are directors that I respect but don’t necessarily rate very highly. The three directors I am interested in more than anyone else in no particular order are Mehra, Hirani, Rohan Sippy. Mehra and Sippy belong a bit more to the auteurist camp while Hirani is just a remarkably intelligent mainstream director. At their best I find Hirani’s and Rohan Sippy’s works to be fully realized. Mehra at least on the evidence of the three films so far tends to have more ‘mixed’ achievements. Perhaps works in progress more often than not though this doesn’t lessen my esteem for him. I am however disappointed with his choice of subject in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. I should add here that I have liked almost all of Kashyap’s films but because he tends to go fully auteurist in many ways he also has to be judged by somewhat different standards.
February 24, 2012 at 9:27 AM
True, a top five would be damn hard, forget top ten!
February 25, 2012 at 12:15 AM
Satyam,
What about Dibakar ? Surely, this guy deserves to be in the top 5… His choice & range of subjects has been exemplary…Khosla ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, LSD & the forthcoming Shanghai which again looks very interesting !
February 24, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Oh man, Ami. You really have opened up a really really good convo here. Here is my list. Not in any order. (Did you want the order as well? )
1. Raj Santoshi
2. Mehboob Khan
3. Raj Kapoor
4. Prakash Mehra
5. Rakesh Mehra
6. Rakesh Kumar
7. Vidhu Vinod Chopra
8. Sai Paranjhpee
9. Ram Gopal Verma
10. Guru Dutt
11. Raju Hirani
12. Yash Chopra (Only upto 70′s)
13. MuKul Anand
14. Aamir Khan (Wish he made more films)
15. Ritwik Ghatak
16. Aziz Mirza (Only for Nukkad though)
17. Shyam Bengal.
18 Satyajit Ray
19. Govind Nihalani.
20. ManMohan Desai.
Oops these are lot more than you asked for, and still I am missing out on quite a few that I really like. This will do for now.
February 24, 2012 at 11:05 AM
I guess I need to read before saying anything, Sorry for the post guys, Satyam you can remove it if you like. Question was for contemperory filmmakers, This list is irrelevant. Oops, Sorry folks.
February 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Ami,
Here’s my current list :
1) Anurag Kashyap
2) Dibakar Banerjee
3) Raju Hirani
4) Vikramaditya Motwane
5) Zoya Akhtar
6) Kiran Rao
7) Shimit Amin
8) Rakesh Mehra
9) Ashutosh Gowariker
10) Farhan Akhtar / Rohan Sippy
February 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM
This last one is damn good. Though its saying its in 72, I feel it maybe shot in much earlier than that. Amazing, a different Amitabh Bachchan here, very raw. No Persona or Body language developed yet. What is that called when folks have their own traits about themselves, Like Dharmendra has his, Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan has his. (Help me out here, can’t think of that word). Looks like he didn’t develop that here. Love the shots when he is describing the story of 2 love birds. I do have to admit though being a crazy Bachchan fan I have yet to see Saat Hindustani, Satyam or others do you know where I can find it? I couldn’t find it online or youtube. Going by this scene, thinking he must be amazing in Saat Hindustani, a different bachchan altogether.
February 25, 2012 at 7:04 AM
I don’t know if anybody knows this but amitabh also makes a guest appearance in a jeetendra/rishi kapoor action film “dosti dushmani”. its a fight scene from “aakhree raasta”. he bursts in through the door and starts whooping ass, basically.
February 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM
so they’ve used the exact scene from Aakhri Raasta?
May 11, 2012 at 11:53 AM
IN this upcoming Anupam Kher film “Mr. Bhatti on Chhutti” Bachchan has a guest appearance
Movie Release Date : Planned for 18th May, 2012
Director : Karan Razdan
Star cast : Anupam Kher, Bhairavi Goswami, Ashwani Chopra, Abid Ali, Shakti Kapoor, Emma Kearney, Pawan Shankar, Neha Phendse and Amitabh Bachchan in a special appearance