100 Filmfare Days: Day 55- Silsila

Silsila

Year: 1981
Director: Yash Chopra
Producer: Yash Chopra
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha and Sanjeev Kumar
Music: Shiv-Hari

Silsila is the biggest casting coup in 100 years of Indian cinema. Never had anyone thought of the possibility of casting Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and Rekha together and that too in an onscreen love triangle. But Yash Chopra's tour de force conviction ensured Smita Patil and Parveen Babi (his original choices) exited the Silsila set in Kashmir just as Jaya and Rekha walked in. This was the last time Rekha and Amitabh worked together in a film. And that fact itself makes this mature love story an all-time classic. Apart from its principal cast, Silsila also features supporting roles by Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. The movie has excellent dialogue and its depiction of subtext in man-woman relationships is brilliant. The music of Silsila is another high point wherein Amitabh Bachchan contributes greatly to the songs Rang barse and Yeh kahan aa gaye hum. Though it had a lukewarm box-office run then, it's a satellite super hit to date.

DID YOU KNOW?

1. The song Neela Aasmanw is based on a tune that Shammi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan composed together while shooting for Zameer. During the making of Silsila, Amitabh called Shammi to ask permission to use the tune.

2.This is the only movie in which Shashi Kapoor played Amitabh Bachchan's elder brother. All their other movies had Amitabh playing the older one.