Majboor (1974) Amitabh Bachchan

Welcome you to Amitabh Bachchan’s filmy journey. Yet another episode and we will talk about his film Majboor released in 1974.

Majboor was a thriller drama film and was inspired from the American film Zigzag. The film was directed by Ravi Tandon and written by Salim Javed. The starcast for this film were Amitabh Bachchan, Parveen Babi, Pran, Madan Puri, Rehman and Farida Jalal.

Ravi Khanna (Amitabh Bachchan) is a middleclass who lives with his
widowed mother and a sister Renu, a wheelchair bound essayed by Farida
Jalal. He has a school going brother Billu (Master Alankar). A happy
family as Ravi is engaged to girlfriend Neela (Parveen Babi) who is a
daughter of a wealthy man.  Just when things were going right he learns
he has a tumor in his brain and has only six months to live. In order to
secure. his family, he takes on a murder charge on himself for which
the reward was 5 lakhs.

In order to be convincing as the killer, he leaves his own trails. He
gets convicted and is imprisoned. In the jail he has a fight that
injures him due to which he is hospitalized. He gets treated for his
brain tumor too. He is now a healthy man and he regrets his decision of
taking the murder charges on himself.

To avoid the death sentence and to get out of the trap laid by his
own self,  he runs away from the hospital to look out for the real
murderer. After a lot of thrilling sequences, at the end the real
culprit is caught and Ravi Khanna is released and proclaimed innocent.

The film had total 5 songs and the music was composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal and the lyrics was written by Anand Bakshi. Playback was by Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and KishoreKumar. The film was remade in Tamil, Gujarati and Malayalam.

The film Majboor did average at the box office but the film had got
popular and the film earnings were good enough for the producer and
director. This film is also considered as one of the good films by
Amitabh Bachchan.