Hyderabad, May 23 -- At this time, fifty yearsago, film fans were flocking tomovietheatres all over India to see a new hero and watcha film with a new theme. Little did they knowthat the tall and lanky hero who had captured their imagination would later become the biggest superstarthat Bollywood had ever seen. Today, even after the passage of five decades he remains a popularfigure on the silver screenand television.

The hero was Amitabh Bachchan and the film was Zanjeer which was released on 11th May 1973. It was thecreationof the writers Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar and directed by Prakash Mehra.The story that Salim-Javed wrote for Zanjeer proved to be a game-changer and set the trend in films for many yearsto come.

After Zanjeer the d...