We welcome you
once again to Amitabh Bachchan’s filmy journey. We hope you will enjoy this as much as we do. Today we talk about his
film in which Amitabh Bachchan has played a negative role. The name of the film
is ‘Parwana’ .
In this film
Amitabh is seen along with Navin Nischol and Yogita Bali. During the making of this film, Amitabh
Bachchan was not a known name in the industry and he knew very few people
around in Bollywood. Whereas Navin
Nischol was a gold medalist from the Pune Film Institute. His first film was
with actress Rekha, ‘Sawan Bhadon in 1970. The film was a superhit and Navin
Nishchol had established himself as a film actor in Hindi films.
The story of the
film ‘ Parwana’ released in 1971 is a story of an infatuated lover turned
murderer so the film was more of a thriller film directed by Jyoti Saroop. With Navin Nischol and Yogita
Bali in the lead pair, the film also had
Shatrughan Sinha and Om Prakash in a special appearance and Amitabh Bachchan
essayed his first negative role as the infatuated lover Kumar Sen. Though the film began like a love story but
the end was more of a thriller murder mystery.
Amitabh
Bachchan’s essayed the role of an artist who falls in love with Asha essayed by
Yogita Bali. Asha is a dancer and she
wins a trip to Ooty in a dance competition where she meets the handsome wealthy
tea plantation owner Rajeshwar. Navin Nischol plays the role of Rajeshwar. When Kumar Sen finds out that his lady love
is in love with Rajeshwar, he is livid . He approaches her uncle Ashok Verma played
by Om Prakash to convince her to marry him and not Rajeshwar but Om Prakash
refuses to comply with his wish as he knows Asha is madly in love with
Rajeshwar. Kumar Sen then plots to kill
Om Prakash. He does it so meticulously with a brilliant plan without leaving
any clue to suspect him. Amitabh Bachchan has depicted the entire murder in
sequences and finally he kills Ashok Verma and frames Rajeshwar as the murderer
who is arrested and the court verdict awards him a death sentence. Amitabh
Bachchan now thinks he can have Asha for himself but he was alas disappointed. Asha who is heart broken and torn between
the two, promises Kumar Sen that if he manages to get Rajeshwar released from
the death sentence she will marry him on this condition. Kumar Sen has realized
that Asha is truly in love with Rajeshwar and that it is who has come in
between two people in love. He realizes his mistake and regrets it. He decides
to mend his ways and confesses and turns himself to the law giving details and
his entire murder plan to Rajeshwar and how he had executed it. He ensures Rajeshwar is released and after
which he commits suicide.
Initially when
the film was to be released the poster of the film did not carry a picture of
Amitabh Bachchan. It had only Navin Nischol and Yogeeta Bali but later after a
couple of weeks after the film ‘Anand’ was released and he was getting popular,
posters were released with Amitabh Bachchan.
The music for the
film is composed by R D Burman and later due to some differences, music composer
Madan Mohan was roped in. The lyrics is
penned by Kaifi Azmi and the songs have been sung by prominent singers like KishoreKumar, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle. Besides them, the film also had singer
Parveen Sultana who sang beautifully but the most popular songs from the film
that became famous were songs sung by Mohmmed Rafi and Asha Bhosle, composed by Madan Mohan’s which is simply
remarkable.
So friends Parwana
was Amitabh Bachchan’s fourth film that did extremely well. With
this we end this story here, but stay in
tune with us on our channel to get many more interesting anecdotes of our super
star, the legendary Amitabh Bachchan’s journey from a negative role to his fame
and to super stardom.
