One of the best movies of Indian Cinema. This is a must see for all Bollywood movies lover. What a performance from Amitabh Bachchan!! I don't have words for it. I doubt anybody could make such a movie in future or anybody could act like Amitabh, God of Indian Cinema.Loosely based on Haji Mastan's life, this movie portrays the life of Vijay from a dockyard worker to an underworld don. Legend is Amitabh Bachchan met Haji Mastan in a race course in Bombay before the shooting of Deewar started. He saw the moist eyes of Haji Mastan and was quite impressed with them. In an interview he said he tried his best to make his eyes look moist to add life to the character. Amazing script by Salim Javed and direction by Yash Chopra.

Most Critics say Sholay is the best film of all time, Deewar was released in the same year. Instead of Sholay winning all the awards it was Deewar. Deewar won almost every single award in the 1975 Filmfare Awards. Amitabh in yet another Powerhouse performance playing the very serious and disturbed angry man who went through a bizarre incident when he was young that causes him anger through out the film. Shashi Kapoor was impressive as the confused brother. Nirupa Roy is Fantastic in almost every film alongside Amitabh. Nirupa is popular in India known as Amitabhs Mother, since they have made many films together. The Late Nirupa Roy gives a Magnificent Performance as the mother who goes through hardship and dilemma. In my opinion this is Yash Chopra Finest Work. A Masterpiece that i can say is One of Bollywood Best Movies.

I guess after Sholay this is one of the best movies in Indian cinema. A must see. This movie is one of the finest blend of movie in Indian cinema. What a terrific performance from Mr. Bachchan, the direction, dialogs, acting everything mixed so well. This story loosely based on one time underworld don "HAJI MASTAAN", he was a dock yard worker, which played by Amitabh Bachhan (vijay).Story started with a union leader who fought for their rights. But the owners of the factory plotted conspiracy and termed him a thief. His family could not face the society and moved out from that place. The older son could not forget this and became a sensitive person. In circumstances he kept his feet in criminal world and soon became underworld don. But his brother became a cop and he's now trying to nab his brother. Director tackles this story quite well.

One of Amitabh's finest work. The raging emotion contained just underneath his skin is kept quietly hidden from the world, with bits boiling over at key moments in the film. He also has great one-liners which became main-stays in the Indian cinema for decades afterward.Shashi was a complete clown in this movie, and you have to ask yourself; what brother would take up arms against his own brother to uphold 'justice', especially in India, the land of corruption and nepotism? Still, accepting the lanky Amitabh beating up 20 goondas with scissor kicks and an old dented shovel means accepting the rest of the premise. In my eyes, however, it would have been much more realistic and cool if Shashi the cop and Amitabh the criminal joined forces to gyp everyone out of their cash, and to live out the rest of their natural lives in Hong Kong or London. It doesn't work out that way though, and Shashi betrays his brother for a 30 cent scrap of copper attached to a ribbon and called a medal.The mom in the movie annoyed me big-time though, her idealistic rantings and ravings made me yawn and ask myself if any old Indian woman could be so naive and stupid. I mean, if your son bought you the building you used to drag bricks to during it's construction 20 years ago, would you throw that all away just because the son bought it with drug and smuggling money? Come on.The climax scene is arguably the best ending in any Indian movie of the 70's, 80's and 90's, far surpassing Sholay's. If you get a chance, run, don't walk to watch this movie.