Amitaabh Bacchan as an Anti-Hero in Film Deewaar: A Socio-Political Study

Abstract

The protagonists of any narrative form whether it is literature or cinema have always attracted much critical attention and a large number of work have been devoted to them.

            In the present paper, the anti-hero of film Deewaar who is famous as an angry young man and is extremely fascinating and complex character, has been taken as the topic of study. Nothing has happened suddenly in the lives of human race on this earth .Man has taken billions of years to be what he is at the present time. In the same way the transformation of a modest anti-hero into angry young man was also gradual and continuous process. The aftermaths of Second World War made human heart fragile and suspicious of others. Social disparity and political indignation led to mistrust and unrest which was an atomic element in the formation of angry young man.