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The curious cases of lead actors doing similar roles in two films without realizing or revealing intentionally. (A bobbytalkscinema EXCLUSIVE) |
A few recent Hindi releases forced me to think about these two ‘tricky’ meanings of the word sharing it honestly and the subject once again took me back to the late-80s controversy between two famous duds of Amitabh Bachchan namely TOOFAN and JAADUGAR releasing in close succession in the same year of 1989. Based on a common unconventional subject revolving around magicians, both these films did have Amitabh playing the key role of a Jaadugar (though with completely different story plots), which was exactly the point raised by Prakash Mehra that his leading man didn’t tell him about the similarity during the entire making. Now how and why the fact didn’t get revealed in time avoiding the messy clash cannot be guessed rightly. But the truth remains that both these film actually got made, released and rejected too (at the same time with TOOFAN releasing first) for the very reason of similarities apart from the mediocre making. 
Coming back to the present, the recent example is of two major films releasing at the gap of 4 months namely WAZIR and TE3N in the first half of 2016 based on a similar theme. Interestingly in this case too we have Amitabh Bachchan only playing the lead role in both the films as an old man who has lost a girl in the family to an unfortunate event and now is willing to take his revenge from the known killer. Despite being contrastingly different in the mystery involved and its treatment, amazingly both WAZIR and TE3N have Amitabh only as the main conspirator behind the games being played like a shrewd criminal fooling his close associates Farhan and Nawazuddin respectively. Now was this acute similarity actually known or conveyed to the respective makers or not (working simultaneously) is certainly a backstage mystery to be solved by asking the makers themselves..jpg)
Quoting a couple of examples of the same, PREM SHASTRA and ISHQ ISHQ ISHQ both had the mention of a bold subject of incest with Dev Anand and Zeenat Aman playing the lead, releasing in the same year of 1974 (and none of the two worked). In the mid-90s, Shah Rukh Khan repeated his stalker act of DARR (December/1993) in a much brutal manner in ANJAAM released just a few months later in (April/1994), clearly indicating that they both were into the making almost simultaneously in the year 1992-93.
Amusingly another important fact related with both these films reamins that where JAZBAA was an official remake of a Korean thriller SEVEN DAYS (2007), DEADLINE was an unofficial version of an English film TRAPPED (2002) having an exactly similar sequence like a weird co-incidence.|
26 Jul 2016 /
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Bobby Sing
Glad that you enjoyed the articles Karanpal.
Jai Shah
Waheeda Rehman\'s roles in JYOTI BANE JWALA & JWALAMUKHI were the same. Both films released in 1980; both had the same theme. Vinod Mehra played her second son in both films. Jeetendra who produced the former film actually sabotaged Prakash Mehra\'s latter film by making a quickie on the same subject & took the same actors.
Bobby Sing
Thanks a lot Jai Shah for a new probable entry.
KennyG
I have a few actors doing similar roles.
1.Dharmendra playing a CID/Under cover officer in3 movies: Aankhen(1968), Charas (1976) and Shalimar. 2.Sunny Deol playing similar role of Police Officer who is Suspended. Tridev and Viswatma. Both were directed by Rajiv Rai. Vardi Indian and Maa Tujhe Salaam(Patriotic with a similar theme) 3.Pran playing Informer/Eye Witness who helps the Hero in the Clilmax. Majboor, Don And Dostana. all three movies had Amitabh Bachchan as the hero and 2 had Zeenat Aman as the heroine. 4.Raaj Kumar playing Mentor/Guardian in 2 movies Marte Dam Tak and Jungbaaz. Both movies he mentored Govinda. 5.Rajesh Khanna playing similar roles of Old man whose children leave the parents. Avtaar and Amrit 6.Jeetendra played similar roles in movies produced by South Indian Movies industry primarily family oriented movies. Can\'t name all. 7.Amitabh Bachchan acted in 2 movies both directed by Yash Chopra. Kabhi Kabhie and Silsila. Both movies he plays similar role. Poet in KK and Writer in Silsila. Both movies he does not get the heroine and she marries someone else. 8.Dilip Kumar- Dil Diya Dard Liya and Ram aur Shyam. Sagina Mahto and Sagina.Dastaan and Bairaag.Duniya and Mashaal (released in same year). 9.Randhir Kapoor-Raampur ka Lakshman,Ponga Pandit and Ram Bharose, Jawani Diwani and Dil Diwana. I am sure I missed a few. Will write again.
Bobby Sing
Dear Kenny,
Chris
Very good article. Some points and more examples.
1. Mahaan also had Amitabh playing a funny \'nautankiwala\' character which was similar to those 2 magician characters. 2. Ajooba is also similar to Shahenshah. Isn\'t it? Also the character and the backstory of Shahenshah/Vijay is blatantly like Batman! 3. How did you miss the most hilarious example of Rishi Kapoor doing the same role in Daraar and Yaarana around the same time in the late 90s! Both remakes of \'sleeping with the enemy\'. 4. Raj Babbar also did the same stalking the heroine which drives the plot in Yaarana and Itihaas. again in the late 90s. 5. Rishi Kapoor also did eerily similar reincarnation movies in the late 80s - Janam Janam and Banjaran. 6. Rishi Kapoor repeated his role from \'Deewana\' in a film called \'Inteha pyar ki\'. SRK was replaced by newcomer Imran Khan. Not exact but similar. You can also compare it to Daraar where the heroine has a past he doesn\'t know about. 7. Madhuri Dixit in a very similar love triangle in Saajan , Mohabbat and Aarzoo. Her lover fakes his own demise in the latter 2 films. Saajan and Aarzoo was by same director. not Mohabbat. Do confirm the similarities before writing them off.
Bobby Sing
Hi Chris, |
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