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2 Amitabhs win your heart
Jul 09, 2003 04:51 PM2367 Views

This movie is a very special one for Amitabh fans as it is


the only good movie in which he plays a set of twins.Other


movies where he tried to repeat it namely Mahaan and


Toofan,bombed badly.


The Great Gambler is a fast paced action thriller which


has a taut screenplay and Amitabh in his full form that


makes the movie worth watching.


The movie starts with Jai(Amitabh) a small time


gambler getting engaged in a brawl.As the movie progresses


we come to know that he is a great gambler and he always


wins the game of cards.Enter bad guy(Madan Puri) who hires


Jai to play in his own casino so that he can rob some


influential people and later use their services to his own


benefit.One such person is Nath(Jagdish Raj) who is working


with the intelligence.Jai wins around 75,000 and leaves


Mr.Nath bankrupt.Now in order to save himself from disgrace


Nath has togive out the secret plan K2 which is actually


wanted by Saxena(Utpal Dutt as a humming villain).Saxena


has a team of bad men who r Romesh(Prem Chopra),Sethi(Roopesh


Kumar) and Marconi(Sujit Kumar).Alongwith them is Romesh's


girlfriend Shabnam(Zeenat baby at her best).Due to an internal


fight between them Sethi flees to Rome with evidence against


Saxena.He contacts the Indian Police who send their trusted


man Vijay(Amitabh again) to collect the evidence.Meanwhile


Jai is also heading to Lisbon to marry Neetu Singh so that


he can win the wealth of her dad(Iftekhar).After a series


of action sequences and great location viewing we come to


know that Jai and Vijay are twins who got separated in


their childhood.They join hands to destroy the evil men and


eventually get their respected ladies and their sister(who


appears only for 2 and a half scenes).


Shakti Samanta is known for his Aradhana and Amar Prem


type of movies.He gave many hits with former superstar


Rajesh Khanna.So the viewers must be surprised on seeing


him direct Khanna's arch-rival Bachchan and that too in


and action oriented thriller.Well,for those who do not know


Samanta had made some great action stuff like Howrah Bridge,


China Town and An Evening In Paris before he made Aradhana.


The Great Gambler has shades of both An Evening In Paris


and China Town.He has kept the pace of the movie quite fast


and aided by a tight screenplay he succeeds in keeping the


viewers glued.


The locations where the movie is shot are very beautiful


The movie boasts of being shot in Cairo,Lisbon,Venice and


Rome.The cinematography is excellent.The action sequences


form the highlight of the movie and are very well executed.


the fight between Amitabh bachchan and Shetty(in a cold


storage) is excellent.The music by R.D. Burman is good.The


song '' Main Tumko Kya Kahoon....'' is great.But the evergreen


''Do lafzon Ki hai....'' picturised on Amitabh and Zeenat on a


boat in Venice is a classic song by all standards.The


background score specially the tune when initially Helen and


later Zeenat dance while sending secret codes is haunting.


The way pyramids,egyptian belle dance,european casinos and


Venice are shown in the movie,it has an international look.


Amitabh carries the movie very ably on his shoulders.


He has looked his best in both the roles.The coats,glasses and


shirts he wear go very well with the characters.He acts very


naturally and looks very handsome.This is perhaps the only


double role film where there is no difference between


both the roles.There is absolutely no difference between


Jai and Vijay in looks,voice,way of dressing and habits.This


leads to some confusion for the viewer as well.Zeenat and


Neetu Singh play their part comfortably.Madan Puri,Iftekhar,


Om Shiv Puri and Jagdish Raj are adequate in their respective


roles.


The peculiar and interesting part of the movie is the


different type of villanous character namely Saxena,Romesh,


Sethi and ofcourse Marconi enacted ably by Utpal Dutt,


Prem Chopra,Roopesh Kumar and Sujit Kumar.Utpal Dutt plays


an unusual and interesting character Saxena who starts humming


tunes even though he is discussing serious topics.Prem Chopra


as Romesh is at his menacing best.Roopesh Kumar plays Sethi


in a way that it becomes his most famous performance.However


it is Sujit Kumar as Marconi, who has an accent and talks


funnily, who gets away with the cake with his superb timing.


Sujit Kumar was a regular in Shakti Samanta films but this


one is really special.Helen shines in a cameo.


Another unknown feature about this movie is producer


Boney Kapoor shooted for the movie in a fight sequence where


he played Amitabh Bachchan's DOUBLE!!!


When released in 1979 The Great Gambler met with


modest success but it has high repeat value which makes it


a must watch for Bachchan fans.Samanta and Bachchan again teamed


up for the 1981 blockbuster billingual ''Barsaat Ki Ek Raat''.


Still, The Great Gambler although often compared with Don


remains a must watch for Samanta's ability to handle an action


film with panache and for the class Bachchan generates as


JAI and VIJAY.


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