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Ranked #96 of 100
Zanjeer
ज़ंजीर · 1973
An orphaned inspector with a recurring nightmare hunts the man who killed his parents. The Angry Young Man is born.
- Director
- Prakash Mehra
- Year
- 1973
- Genre
- Action · Crime
- Cast
- Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Pran
Why it's at number 96
Salim–Javed's breakthrough and the pivot point of 1970s Hindi cinema.
An orphaned inspector with a recurring nightmare hunts the man who killed his parents. The Angry Young Man is born.
Zanjeer sits in the 1970s alongside Sholay and Deewaar — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Prakash Mehra.
- Released in 1973, in the 1970s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Action, Crime.
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