Sooryavansham

Sooryavansham is a 1999 Bollywood drama film starring Amitabh Bachchan in a dual role, Jayasudha, Soundarya, Rachana Banerjee, Anupam Kher and Kader Khan. The film marked the Bollywood debut of Telugu director E. V. V. Satyanarayana and remained his first and only directorial in Hindi. It is also the only Hindi film that the late actress Soundarya acted in. Although the film was a little above average at the box office, critics hailed Amitabh Bachchans performance as one of his best since his comeback after a hiatus in 1997.

The story is set in the backdrop of rural India. Thakur Bhanupratap Singh Amitabh Bachchan is the head of the Sooryavansh ancestry in the village of Bharatpur where he is also the distinguished Sarpanch of the local Gram panchayat. The people of Bharatpur reckon Thakur Bhanupratap with great honour and respect for his blue blood and virtuous ideologies. Thakur Bhanupratap has three sons the youngest among whom is Heera Amitabh Bachchan, in a dual role. Thakur Bhanupratap considers Heera goodfornothing and avoids any kind of verbal or physical communication with him because of Heera being illiterate. Although illiterate and neglected by his father, Heera is very benevolent and obedient, and has intense respect and reverence for his father. His significance in the household is no greater than the servants working in the palatial bungalow of the family.One day, some guests arrive at the house, among whom a woman Radha Soundarya notices that although Heera is one of Thakur Bhanuprataps sons, he lives like a servant in the house doing menial work. Upon asking Heeras close friend Dharmendra Anupam Kher about this, he narrates to Radha the sad account of Heeras past life. In his childhood Heera was a dunce and always earned very poor marks in his school examinations, to face his strict fathers wrath. He was so dull in his studies that he even did not know the number of zeroes in 100 sometimes he would place three or four zeroes in 100 while tempering with the low marks on his mark sheet, again to be castigated by his father. Heera actually did not go to school for knowledge, his sole purpose of attending school was his classmate Gauri the girl adopted by Thakur Bhanupratap after the demise of her parents. Once a teacher severely punished Gauri for her omission of producing homework, and Heera, in a fit of rage, struck the teacher and bolted away along with Gauri. Heera thus became a school dropout and never continued his studies, whereas Gauri proceeded with her studies

Source: Wikipedia