Megastar
Amitabh
Bachchan,
who
earned
the
tag
of
"Angry
Young
Man" after
his
films
Zanjeer
and
Namak
Haraam,
believes
the
first
actor
to
hold
the
title
is
not
him
but
Sunil
Dutt
who
portrayed
an
angry
Birju
in
the
1957-epic
Mother
India.
In
the
Mehboob
Khan-directed
Mother
India,
Sunil
Dutt
played
the
rebel
son
of
a
woman,
played
by
Nargis,
who
works
hard
for
survival
with
her
two
sons
after
her
husband
disappears.
"Namak
Haram
bore
seeds
of
the
anger
that
was
next
seen
in
Zanjeer,
and
the
subsequent
titling
of
the
epithet
Angry
Young
Man
by
the
media," Big
B
wrote
on
his
Facebook
page.
"But
I
have
always
believed
that
the
first
powerful
depiction
or
in
a
sense
the
birth
of
the
so
called
'Angry
Young
Man',
was
designed
by
Mehboob
Saheb
(Mehboob
Khan)
in
Mother
India,
where
the
character
Birju,
played
so
brilliantly
by
Sunil
Dutt,
was
depicted," he
wrote.
While
Zanjeer
featured
Amitabh
as
inspector
Vijay
Khanna,
Namak
Haraam
saw
him
as
Vikram
Maharaj.
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