Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom Raj had given up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son, who grows up and after his mother's death comes to Delhi to take revenge on the Gupta family by destroying the family's business and their relation with each other.
Acting
Amitabh's controlled fury vs. Sanjeev Kumar's crumbling patriarch
Direction
Yash Chopra balancing melodrama with genuine pathos
Score
Khayyam's music that somehow makes business deals emotional
Director
Yash Chopra
Amitabh Bachchan
Vijay Kumar
Shashi Kapoor
Shekhar Gupta
Sanjeev Kumar
Raj Kumar Gupta
Hema Malini
Sheetal Varma
Rakhee Gulzar
Geeta
Waheeda Rehman
Shanti
Prem Chopra
Balwant Rai
Poonam Dhillon
Kusum "Babli" Gupta
Manmohan Krishna
Seth Din Dayal
Iftekhar
Mr. P.L. Varma
Yunus Parvez
Bhandari
M. B. Shetty
Madhav Singh (as Shetty)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Salim-Javed wrote Vijay as deliberately unsympathetic at times, breaking the 'hero' mold. Bachchan fought to keep his moral ambiguity.
Trishul's corporate Delhi setting mirrored India's shifting economy — the 'angry young man' now attacked from within the system, not outside it.
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