Exploring Amitabh Bachchan's Filmy Journey with The Film "Bansi Birju"

We welcome you once again to one more interesting story from Amitabh Bachchan’s filmy career. Today we talk about Amitabh Bachchan’s film Bansi Birju released in 1972.

This is a love story between Bansi and Birju essayed by the Bachchan couple and it was one of their first films together on screen. Film was directed by Prakash Verma. The film also had Ramesh Deol, Yunus Parves and K.N.Singh .

Bansi is a dancer and prostitute. Once Birju a simpleton from a village . One night Bansi runs away from the brothel house to save herself and bumps into Birju who gives her shelter and help in her distressed state. He starts falling in love with her, marries her and bring her to his village. They both are very happy and the story seems like a simple love story but it is not so. Very soon the villagers get to know of Bansi that she was a prostitute.

The villagers start harassing the couple and the whole village goes against both of them making their life miserable in the village. Both Bansi and Birju are madly in love and they cannot do without each other. Their love is true and at the end their love triumphs over the hatred of the villagers.

The music for this film is rendered by Vijay Raghav Rao and the songs from this film have really not made an impact so are not very popular or famous. The film did not do too well generally nor at the box office. An ordinary film that many people till date are not aware that Bachchans were star cast in this film.

So here we end another episode on Amitabh’s filmy journey with the film Bansi Birju.