What Kader Khan really did best was nail the cadence of the character he was writing for, and that’s what made those dialogues so perfect, and so apt.
The year, 1977. The speaker of that iconic dialogue, Anthony Gonsalves. The film, Amar Akbar Anthony. The director, the king of masala Manmohan Desai. And the dialogue writer, the one and only Kader Khan. Those dialogues made us laugh louder than we had in a long time. We held our bellies. We guffawed. And we returned, just to hear those lines again. And again.
By then, Bachchan had cemented his reputation as the hero who could do anything. Fight off 20 people in a godown, wiping the blood off his chin, and glowering that famous glower. What AAA did give him was the chance to cross over to the comic side. And he became the star who could do action, drama, and comedy. It could well have been that Bachchan got so big because he was at the intersection of a certain time and place in Hindi cinema, but there’s no doubt that a lot of it had to do with the genius of Kader Khan.
Only those who have experienced and loved the masala cinema of the 70s and 80s Bollywood will understand the real significance of that moniker ‘dialogue writer’.
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