Sunil Dutt, Raj Kumar, Balraj Sahni, Manoj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar had tremendous influence in the 1960s-70s. All of them were superstars of that decade. Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna were brand new stars in front of him. In such a situation, director-producer BR Chopra’s team offered Dharmendra to film for a blockbuster film, but he refused to do the film. Let us tell you that this was the first color film of BR Chopra, Dharam Chopra and Yash Chopra.
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New Delhi. As you all know that Dharmendra entered Bollywood in the year 1960 with the movie ‘Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere’. However, this film was nothing special. Dharmendra definitely became the face of directors with this film. It is said that in the early days of his career, Dharmendra left films to play all kinds of roles. This trend continued for about 5 years but after 5 years he refused to allow directors to do side roles in films.
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A similar scene was seen with the blockbuster film released in the year 1965. The film featured Balraj Sahni, Sunil Dutt, Raj Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Sadhana, Sharmila Tagore in lead roles. Seeing the bumper success of that film, the filmmakers remade it in Telugu as ‘Bhale Abbayalu’ which was released in 1969 and in Malayalam as ‘Kolilakkam’ which was released in 1981.
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The superstar studded film was directed by Yash Chopra while produced by BR Chopra. The name of that film was ‘Waqt’. The film proved to be the highest grossing film of that year. It is said that the prince rose to fame by playing the role of Raja Chinoy (Raju). Actually, he was supposed to play Dharmendra first. However, he refused the role.
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As reported by IMBD, the role of Raja Chinoy was first offered to Dharmendra but he did not want to play the elder brother. Later, the role went to Raj Kumar and thus another blockbuster film was added to Rajkumar’s kitty. .
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According to a report by sacnilk.com, the film is produced by BR Chopra with a budget of Rs 1 crore. The film earned up to Rs 5 crore at the domestic box office. While its worldwide collection was 6 crores.
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