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| Updated: Jul 13, 2013, 04:05 PM IST
Pran, whose career is spanned over six decades, was seen in every big Bollywood film of the 1960s and 70s.
Pran Sahaab who passed away today had a fantastic career in films. He made his debut as hero in the Punjabi Film Yamla Jat, though he is best known for his villainous roles. The story goes that he was so effective as a villain that people stopped naming their kids Pran.
Some of his best roles.
Madhumati – where he plays the evil minor Raja Ugranarayan, who covets and kills Madhumati. Pran plays the role with panache, looking down on his employee Dilip Kumar, leering at village girls and ill-treating people who worked with him.
Half Ticket Pran plays a villainous diamond smuggler who has no problems in using chidren as mules to smuggle diamonds. In the film Kishore Kumar plays the role of a man who cannot afford a full ticket, therefore behaves like an overgrown child to be eligible for a Half Ticket, and is conned by Pran.
Upkaar
The film in which Manoj Kumar essayed the role of Bharat for the first time. In this film Pran plays a disabled farmer, who tells Bharat that self interest is not such a bad thing. The villain in this film is Madan Puri who plays a blackmarketeer and a trafficker of spurious drugs.
Amar Akbar Anthony
Pran plays Kishen Lal husband to Nirupa Roy and father to Amar, Akbar and Anthony – who takes on a jail sentence for a crime committed by someone else(Jeevan) to see a better life for his family. When he is released he realises that his family is in dire straits, and when confronts Jeevan it leads to a series of events that disperses his family. The humble Kishenlal becomes an international Don.
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Zanjeer And in Zanjeer Pran plays Sher Khan, the tiger who gives his loyalty to the angry young inspector Vijay. The scene where the two meet for the first time is a classic "yeh police station hain, tumhare baap ka ghar nahin”
