He was Azaad in Saat Hindustani and Azaad again in Main Azaad Hoon. In Deewar the dock worker sleeps soundly, in Abhimaan the singer is an insomniac. In Kabhi Kabhie the unrequited lover becomes an embittered man. In Silsila the lover is reckless. In Anand his terminally ill friend draws him out of his shell and in Mili he offers hope to his spirited neighbour now on her death bed. In Sanjog he is diffident in the presence of his powerful wife. In Sooryavansham he is proud of her success. Over the decades as the actor grew in stature, the props associated with him changed identity as well and so the buses and the taxis made way for choppers, some attitudes lingered though, after Sholay, we saw him drink tea from a saucer in the Sarkar series. In Roti Kapada Aur Makaan he was the soldier with a missing arm and in Shahenshah he more than made up with a 14-kilogram metal arm. In Sholay Dharmendra and he were nabbed by Sanjeev Kumar on a moving train and in Bunty Aur Babli he nabs Rani Mukerji and Abhishek Bachchan hiding in a bogey with their new born. In Alladin he fulfilled wishes of his master and in Teen Patti he works miracles with mathematics, the instances are innumerable and the actor only one- Vijay/ Vijay Dinanath Chavhan/ Amitabh Bachchan.
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