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@ragingbull – and whose career did amitabh’s career in the period reflect? joy mukherji’s? (vs rajendra kumar’s silver jubillee run)

@rockie – ye bachchan ke buddhe fans na, bas too much hain!

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@shaludidi – sab kaam memory se hi karti ho kya? wat are records for?

and how u guyz wish that salman success will fizzle out in 4-55 years. do u even realize in 4-5 years he wud have cerated a history of 30 years of atbbs, unmatched in the world cinema.

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@yakuza – of the 9 films in 1982 only namak halal and khuddar were hits. and then u talk of hit ratio of salman khan.

anyways no one is saying (at least me) that jeetendra was more succesful than amitabh. my point is media chooses to ignore some things and exaggerate other to suit its narrative, the same point i raised in the rajesh khanna post.

otherwise amitabh, dilip kumar and salman khan definitely tie up for the top spot in 100 years history of bollywood. at least till this year’s end.

@utkal – no one knows it. only u know that dharmendra was smaller than rajesh khanna!

rejendra kumar, jeetendra are as big stars as rajesh khanna (bigger on some sacles) dharmendra is even bigger. if he (they) are not bigger than amitabh and dilip kumar, its becoz of the fact they have lesser hits than amitabh and dilip, of smaller magnitude and less footfall.

apart from boxoffice there is no way to determine bigger/smaller star. yes u can make a list of ur own favourites where dharmendra is lower than rajesh khanna but that is wat wud actually qualify as ‘ranting on ng”.

and as iconic as naseeb is, most kids of today’s generation have not even heard about it. and every 18 years will tell u the scene by scene story of jaani dushman. its all about how frequently a film is telecast on tv.

take for instance laawaris, one of the bigger amitabh bachchan hit, at par with don, if not bigger. but ppl remeber don. the reamke, the media projection are the reason and so also televison telecast. may be praksah mehra’s family has not been able to starike many deals with tv channels and hence the amitabh films he made are rarely telecast (lawaris, khoon pasina, hera pheri, even the atbb muqaddar ka sikandar) does that mean mks was less of a classic than don?

come on. dont mix media/tv projections with ‘memorable’.

and how do u count the ppl who consider deewar a classic and not janai dushman? wat is the collective trp of jaani dushman over the last 5 years and deewar?

now go compare.

as soon as some channel strikes deals with j om praksah’s company, asha will be telecast as much and become as memorable. by the way how memorable is dostana, released in the same year as asha?

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@yakuza – so u agree if u make more films then chances of faliures increase? yaad rakhna!

yes yakuza, i am saying between 1980 and 1984, not overall. yes in that period he had more biggest hits of the year, bigger verdicts even as amitabh’s colossus movies consumed huge amounts of money.

@utkal – in which case how has jaani dushman become so memorable?

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@yakuza – my definition of bigger neednot be same as the author of this post or urs for that matter. i am calling jeetendra bigger than amitabh on the basis of the fact that while amitabh gave big budget turkeys like shaan, great gambler, barsaat ki ek raat etc, jeetendra gave big ROI hits. overall jeetendra can never be bigger than amitabh but wasnt

aasha (10 cr) bigger than dostana (9 cr)

meri awaaz suno (13 cr) bigger than laawaris (12 cr)

farz aur kanoon and himmatwal bigger on ROi thannamak halaal and coolie?

tohfa and maqsad (9cr) bigger than sharbi (8 cr)

now if amitabh does 20 films a year he may have some averages etc. even jeetendra’s less successful films like jeene doa nd dharmkanta were average. but who was on the top? who was above? who was below in the lsist.

all data from single source boxofficeindia.com