Birthday Special: Amol Palekar's best films won the hearts of the common man

The best actor of Hindi films in the 70s, who has always won the hearts of the audience by playing the character of a common man in his films. Or it can also be said that Amol Palekar has been the hero of the middle class. At that time he was counted like a superstar. Today is his birthday. This year he is celebrating his 79th birthday.

The stories of Amol's films were different from most of the films of that time and were based on stories related to a middle-class family. A new freshness, simplicity and reality was visible in Amol Palekar's acting, that is why his films like 'Golmaal', 'Baaton-Baaton' are still liked by the people.

- While the films of all the big heroes used to become hits in their own name, Amol's films were known for their distinct story, acting and direction. Amol was the first choice of directors making art and creative cinema like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee etc.

- Amol did not always want to be a hero. His first love was making paintings. Amol Palekar graduated in Fine Arts from Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai and had more than 7 exhibitions of his paintings. Not only this, Amol has also worked in Bank of India.

During this time, he got inclined towards theater and started acting in Marathi plays under the direction of famous theater artist Satyadev Dubey. His first film in Bollywood was 'Rajnigandha' in 1974. In 1979, Amol Palekar's film 'Golmaal' was released which achieved record success.

Let us tell you that you can watch some selected and best films of Amol Palekar for free on YouTube. Let us tell you which are those movies of Amol Palekar on YouTube, which you can watch for free anytime…

1- breakup

Ramprasad (Amol Palekar) is a graduate who tells a lot of lies to his boss Bhavani Shankar (Utpal Dutt) to get a job. One of these lies is that he has a twin brother, which leads to many ridiculous situations. Golmaal is counted among the most successful comedy films of Bollywood.

2- small talk

Arun (Amol Palekar), an accountant in Mumbai, is a shy and simple boy who loves a girl named Prabha (Vidya Sinha) and keeps dreaming about her. In between their love story comes Nagesh (Asrani), who is very bright and is Prabha's colleague.

Dejected and desperate, Arun goes to take training from Colonel Nagendranath (Ashok Kumar) to win his love and how he changes the circumstances after coming back, see in the film. Choti Si Baat is a very entertaining and inspiring film which you will love to watch again and again.

3- In conversation

Tony (Amol Palekar) and Nancy (Tina Munim) often meet while going to office and gradually they fall in love with each other. There are always fights over small things in love, but when Tony refuses to marry Nancy's mother starts looking for relationships elsewhere. Watch the film and know how both hearts can unite.

4- Tuberose

Deepa (Vidya Sinha), who lives in Delhi, is in love with Sanjay and both are about to get married. Sanjay (Amol Palekar) is a cheerful, cool, carefree type of boy who is also very careless. Deepa has to go to Mumbai for an interview where she meets Naveen (Dinesh Thakur).

Naveen and Deepa loved each other during their college days but get separated due to fights and rifts. Naveen has changed a lot and is responsible and serious in nature, completely different from Sanjay. During his stay in Mumbai, he helps Deepa a lot and takes great care of her. Due to all this Deepa starts getting attracted towards Naveen again.

Whom Deepa chose in the end between Sanjay and Naveen, you will know after watching the film. The film Rajnigandha received the Filmfare Award for Best Film in 1975.

5- Colorful

Hrishikesh Mukherjee was the director of this film based on a story by famous Hindi writer Kamleshwar. Ajay Sharma (Amol Palekar) is a successful entrepreneur, but he is always lost in work and unable to pay attention to his wife Nirmala (Parveen Babi). Ajay's friend (Deven Verma) notices Nirmala's loneliness and he hatches a fun plan to rekindle the lost love between Ajay and Nirmala. The other main characters of the film are Ajay's secretary (Deepti Naval) and her boyfriend (Farooq Shaikh).

6- soft-hot

Kusum (Swaroop Sampat) and Ramprasad (Amol Palekar), who live in the village, love each other, but Gajanan Babu and Babua (Shatrughan Sinha) are also among Kusum's admirers. See in the film how the hero of the story 'Ramprasad' succeeds in getting his girlfriend despite a lot of difficulties. Other actors of this Hrishikesh Mukherjee film were, A. Of. Hangal and Utpal Dutt.