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Salim-Javed Salim Khan Javed Akhtar Prakash Mehra: Zanjeer

Bachchan was struggling as an actor in the early 1970s, with mostly flops and only two hits in supporting or minor roles. He was discovered by the screenwriting duo of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who wrote the story for Zanjeer and conceived its lead role as an "angry young man". They struggled to find an actor for the role, which went against the romantic hero roles popular at the time. Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar saw Bachchan's talent and felt he was ideal for the role. They introduced him to the director Prakash Mehra and insisted he be cast, which helped launch Bachchan's successful career.

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Salim-Javed Salim Khan Javed Akhtar Prakash Mehra: Zanjeer

Bachchan was struggling as an actor in the early 1970s, with mostly flops and only two hits in supporting or minor roles. He was discovered by the screenwriting duo of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who wrote the story for Zanjeer and conceived its lead role as an "angry young man". They struggled to find an actor for the role, which went against the romantic hero roles popular at the time. Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar saw Bachchan's talent and felt he was ideal for the role. They introduced him to the director Prakash Mehra and insisted he be cast, which helped launch Bachchan's successful career.

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Bachchan was struggling, seen as a "failed newcomer" who, by the age of 30, had twelve flops

and only two hits (as a lead in Bombay to Goa and supporting role in Anand). Bachchan was
soon discovered by screenwriter duo Salim-Javed, consisting of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar.
[43]
 Salim Khan wrote the story, screenplay and script of Zanjeer (1973), and conceived the "angry
young man" persona of the lead role. Javed Akhtar came on board as co-writer, [44] and Prakash
Mehra, who saw the script as potentially groundbreaking, as the film's director. However, they
were struggling to find an actor for the lead "angry young man" role; it was turned down by a
number of actors, owing to it going against the "romantic hero" image dominant in the industry at
the time.[43] Salim-Javed soon discovered Bachchan and "saw his talent, which most makers
didn't. He was exceptional, a genius actor who was in films that weren't good." [45] According to
Salim Khan, they "strongly felt that Amitabh was the ideal casting for Zanjeer".[43] Salim Khan
introduced Bachchan to Prakash Mehra,[44] and Salim-Javed insisted that Bachchan be cast for
the role.[43]

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