The era of the seventies, where mostly action oriented films worked and just one name, Amitabh Bachchan, the angry young man ruled the roost, also saw actor par excellence, Amol Palekar winning the hearts of the audience with his middle class, common man act. The continuous struggle with life, its ups and downs and fight against the system to achieve a simple objective, survival, was portrayed perfectly by Amol, sometimes through hard hitting films like GHARONDA and at times in a humrous manner through light hearted projects like CHHOTI SI BAAT, CHITCHOR, GOLMAAL, BATON BATON MEIN etc.
Just recently we were privy to a debate on the Amol Palekar phenomenon which was aired on a regional television channel and the participants discussed in detail the contribution of Palekar as an actor to the Hindi film industry and his glorification of the common man. Though the common man’s cause was also taken up by other actors the most recent act that we remember was that of Shah Rukh Khan, who did it with effortless ease in Aditya Chopra’s RAB NE BANA DI JODI. And now after Shah Rukh it’s the turn of the ‘Khiladi’ to champion the cause of the middle class man and depict his struggle against the system with his upcoming political satire (as he prefers to call it!), KHATTA MEETHA.
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