NAAM TOH SUNA HOGA
BIG B AS VIJAY:
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At 80, Amitabh Bachchan is very much the elder statesman of Bollywood and his legacy is like no other
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Among his many and varied contributions has been to perpetuate celebrity associations with certain screen names
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Just as Shah Rukh Khan has made Rahul his own and Salman Prem, Big B's best-known screen name is Vijay
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It's not the only name he's made famous – Big B was named Amit in any number of films including Kabhi Kabhie
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However, the moniker Vijay has proved the most evocative and is the center of one of his most famous dialogues
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Amitabh Bachchan was named Vijay for the very first time in 1973's Zanjeer, playing a police officer
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In 1975's Deewar, his Vijay was on the wrong side of the law, facing off against his cop brother (Shashi Kapoor)
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In 1978, Big B had back to back releases as Vijay – as the unwilling lookalike of a gangster in Don…
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…and as a rich man's illegitimate and abandoned son bent on revenge in Trishul
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Inspector Vijay showed up again 1988's Shahenshah, which had the immortal line: “Rishtey mein toh hum tumhaare baap lagte hain”
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Big B's most famous outing as Vijay was in 1990's Agneepath, one of the best examples of his “Angry Young Man” persona
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“Poora naam, Vijay Deenanath Chauhan,” he intones in his famous baritone in what is one of his most iconic dialogues
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‘Vijay' has cropped up in several other films, among them Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Hera Pheri, Kaala Patthar, Shaan and Shakti
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Most aptly, Amitabh Bachchan's character in his last release of note, Jhund, was also named Vijay (but based on a real person)
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