Muqaddar Ka Sikander completed 44 years.
which was a big hit and the highest grosser of the year which had 5 other releases of Amitabh Bachchan (Including Don, Trishul, Kasme Vaade).
MKS was the fourth movie of Amitabh Bachchan with Prakash Mehra.
Muqaddar ka Sikandar was also the 5th movie in a row which had these two top stars in parallel hero roles, the other four being Hera Pheri, Khoon Pasina Parvarish and Amar Akbar Anthony.
This was an action movie but with an undercurrent of Devdas.
But the film was so radically mainstream that the complex imprint of Devdas was rendered almost unrecognisable.
The ‘Devdas complex’—the trope of pining over an unattainable love—as many researchers call it today is one of Hindi cinema’s mainstays. In Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Mehra used it to the hilt to create a larger-than-life sympathetic character, Sikandar (ironically named after the conqueror), and win over his massive audience.
Who can forget the iconic dialogue by Kadar Khan ( and performed by him too )
“Sukh ko thokar maar, dukh ko apna. Arre sukh to bewafa hai, chand dinon ke liye aata hai aur chala jaata hai, dukh to apna saathi hai, apne saath rehta hai. Dukh ko apna le. Taqdeer tere kadmon me hogi aur tu Muqaddar ka Badshah hoga.”
Now if Sikandar is Devdas we have Memsaab or Kaamna as Paro.. other characters from Devdas do appear. Nautch girl Chandramukhi becomes Zohra Begum (Rekha) while Chunni Babu becomes Pyarelal Awara (Ram Sethi).
On major deviations we have Vinod Khanna's charecter Vishaal and Amjad Khan as Dilawar who loves Zohra ( to complete the equation
A loves B loves C and D is fond of A but D is adored by E.
A to E can be identified by the readers 😀.
The story is epic and iconic so won't elaborate.
Kudos to Prakash Mehra
Unlike Bimal Roy before him, or Bhansali after him, he wasn’t interested in examining the psyche of his protagonist. His pursuit was to please his audience which he did.
Kader Khan’s work in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, conveying an array of characters through dialogue, is considered among his best ever in a film that was designed to be a crowd pleasing star-vehicle for Amitabh Bachchan who was at his Zenith
And the star overpowered everyone and everything with his larger-than-life screen presence.
As the end-credit tagline of Muqaddar Ka Sikandar reads, it’s ‘a film to remember’.
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