![]() Hrishikesh Mukherjee, however, was not your usual filmmaker. One look at Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Chupke Chupke” that released the same year as “Sholay” and you would know how heavy a price many had to pay for the success of Sippy’s blockbuster. Dharmendra became the He-man! The loss was cinegoers’ alone, as both Bachchan and Dharmendra were incredibly gifted artistes who were seldom provided an opportunity to step beyond the trite, the trusted. And Bachchan was to be forever typecast as the angry young man. Worse, even the filmmakers fell into that image trap. The astounding success of G.P Sippy’s “Sholay” reduced them to only Jai and Veeru in the minds of the common man. ![]() A single stroke and even the most talented of artistes are reduced to a mere prisoner of image. Sweeping generalisations never did anybody any favours.
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